# FriendliAI **Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/friendliai/ **Website:** https://friendli.ai/ **APIs profiled:** 33 FriendliAI is an AI inference cloud that runs generative AI models fast, affordably, and reliably at scale. Its Friendli Suite spans three products: Model APIs (serverless, pay-per-token access to popular open-weight LLMs and multimodal models), Dedicated Endpoints (any open-source or custom model on dedicated GPUs with autoscaling, versioning, multi-LoRA and speculative decoding), and Friendli Container (self-hosted inference with gRPC, quantization and policy search). The API is OpenAI-compatible, so existing OpenAI applications migrate by changing the base URL and API key, with support for chat completions, tool calling, structured outputs, reasoning, audio transcription, embeddings and image generation. FriendliAI is a portfolio company of Sierra Ventures. ## Kin Score — 57.1 / 100 (strong) Scored 2026-08-17 under rubric 0.11.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 57.1). | Facet | Score | |---|---| | Discoverability | 81.5 | | Contract Quality | 64.6 | | Governance | 11.5 | | Operational Transparency | 44.7 | | Developer Ergonomics | 75.5 | | Commercial Clarity | 52.6 | ## Agent readiness — 48.0 (agent-ready) | Dimension | Value | |---|---| | Spec Presence | yes | | Agentic Access | derived | | MCP Server | derived | | Auth Clarity | yes | | Idempotency | no | | Error Semantics | verified | | OpenAPI Examples | verified | | Rate Limit Signal | documented | | Event Surface Described | no | | Agent Skills | derived | | Well Known Catalog | no | | Consent Identity | no | | Agent Card | no | | Dry Run Mode | no | ## Access Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium). ## APIs (33) - **FriendliAI Container.Audio API** — The Container.Audio API from FriendliAI — 2 operation(s) for container.audio. - **FriendliAI Container.Chat API** — The Container.Chat API from FriendliAI — 2 operation(s) for container.chat. - **FriendliAI Container.Classification API** — The Container.Classification API from FriendliAI — 1 operation(s) for container.classification. - **FriendliAI Container.Completions API** — The Container.Completions API from FriendliAI — 2 operation(s) for container.completions. - **FriendliAI Container.Image API** — The Container.Image API from FriendliAI — 2 operation(s) for container.image. - **FriendliAI Container.Messages API** — The Container.Messages API from FriendliAI — 2 operation(s) for container.messages. - **FriendliAI Container.Responses API** — The Container.Responses API from FriendliAI — 2 operation(s) for container.responses. - **FriendliAI Container.Token API** — The Container.Token API from FriendliAI — 2 operation(s) for container.token. - **FriendliAI Cost API** — The Cost API from FriendliAI — 1 operation(s) for cost. - **FriendliAI Dataset API** — The Dataset API from FriendliAI — 8 operation(s) for dataset. - **FriendliAI Dedicated.Audio API** — The Dedicated.Audio API from FriendliAI — 2 operation(s) for dedicated.audio. - **FriendliAI Dedicated.Chat API** — The Dedicated.Chat API from FriendliAI — 2 operation(s) for dedicated.chat. - **FriendliAI Dedicated.ChatRender API** — The Dedicated.ChatRender API from FriendliAI — 1 operation(s) for dedicated.chatrender. - **FriendliAI Dedicated.Classification API** — The Dedicated.Classification API from FriendliAI — 1 operation(s) for dedicated.classification. - **FriendliAI Dedicated.Completions API** — The Dedicated.Completions API from FriendliAI — 2 operation(s) for dedicated.completions. - **FriendliAI Dedicated.Embeddings API** — The Dedicated.Embeddings API from FriendliAI — 1 operation(s) for dedicated.embeddings. - **FriendliAI Dedicated.Endpoint API** — The Dedicated.Endpoint API from FriendliAI — 9 operation(s) for dedicated.endpoint. - **FriendliAI Dedicated.Image API** — The Dedicated.Image API from FriendliAI — 2 operation(s) for dedicated.image. - **FriendliAI Dedicated.Messages API** — The Dedicated.Messages API from FriendliAI — 2 operation(s) for dedicated.messages. - **FriendliAI Dedicated.Responses API** — The Dedicated.Responses API from FriendliAI — 2 operation(s) for dedicated.responses. - **FriendliAI Dedicated.Token API** — The Dedicated.Token API from FriendliAI — 2 operation(s) for dedicated.token. - **FriendliAI File API** — The File API from FriendliAI — 3 operation(s) for file. - **FriendliAI Serverless.Audio API** — The Serverless.Audio API from FriendliAI — 2 operation(s) for serverless.audio. - **FriendliAI Serverless.Chat API** — The Serverless.Chat API from FriendliAI — 2 operation(s) for serverless.chat. - **FriendliAI Serverless.ChatRender API** — The Serverless.ChatRender API from FriendliAI — 1 operation(s) for serverless.chatrender. - **FriendliAI Serverless.Completions API** — The Serverless.Completions API from FriendliAI — 2 operation(s) for serverless.completions. - **FriendliAI Serverless.Knowledge API** — The Serverless.Knowledge API from FriendliAI — 1 operation(s) for serverless.knowledge. - **FriendliAI Serverless.Messages API** — The Serverless.Messages API from FriendliAI — 2 operation(s) for serverless.messages. - **FriendliAI Serverless.Model API** — The Serverless.Model API from FriendliAI — 2 operation(s) for serverless.model. - **FriendliAI Serverless.Responses API** — The Serverless.Responses API from FriendliAI — 2 operation(s) for serverless.responses. - **FriendliAI Serverless.Token API** — The Serverless.Token API from FriendliAI — 2 operation(s) for serverless.token. - **FriendliAI Serverless.ToolAssistedChat API** — The Serverless.ToolAssistedChat API from FriendliAI — 2 operation(s) for serverless.toolassistedchat. - **FriendliAI Usage API** — The Usage API from FriendliAI — 1 operation(s) for usage. ## MCP servers (1) - **friendliai-mcp.yml** ## Agentic access (1) - **Friendliai Agentic Access** — 84 operations · 67 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop ## Security (3) - **Friendliai Authentication** — http · 1 scheme - **Friendliai Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC - **Friendliai Trust Center** — trust center published ## Tags Company, Infrastructure, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, LLM, Inference, Generative AI, GPU, OpenAI Compatible --- Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/friendliai/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.