AI teams and enterprises needing production LLM inference without managing GPU infrastructure.

FriendliAI is a hosted inference cloud offering serverless model APIs, dedicated GPU endpoints, and containerized deployment for open and custom LLMs.

Accessed via FriendliAI's cloud API or deployed into a customer's own VPC (BYOC) for enterprise plans.

Commercially operating since 2023, with ongoing 2026 feature additions such as InferenceSense for idle GPU monetization.

It exists to cut inference latency and cost for teams serving open-source and fine-tuned LLMs at scale.

Works with Hugging Face model checkpoints and integrates via an OpenAI-compatible API.

SaaS, proprietary, requires an API key; usage-based billing with enterprise BYOC option; prompts and data go to FriendliAI's cloud unless deployed on customer VPC.