Friendli alternatives
Fast, cost-efficient AI platform for serving large language models.
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| Yes | Easy | Minutes (for running existing models); hours to days for custom deployments | |
| Yes | Medium | Minutes to deploy first function | |
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| Yes | Easy | Instant—create ads in 60 seconds | |
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- FriendliThis tool
Fast, cost-efficient AI platform for serving large language models.
- Free plan
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- Learning curve
- Medium
- Setup
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Full-stack AI platform designed for production workloads, combining serverless inference, GPU clusters, fine-tuning, and custom training capabilities.
- Free plan
- Yes
- Learning curve
- Medium
- Setup
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Cloud API to run open-source AI models for image, video, audio, and language tasks.
- Free plan
- Yes
- Learning curve
- Easy
- Setup
- Minutes (for running existing models); hours to days for custom deployments
Modal is a platform for running AI workloads instantly with scalable GPUs and Python-first infrastructure.
- Free plan
- Yes
- Learning curve
- Medium
- Setup
- Minutes to deploy first function
AI workspace with 100+ models for creating, analyzing, and automating tasks.
- Free plan
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- Learning curve
- Easy
- Setup
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All-in-one AI workspace with 100+ models for chat, media creation, and automation.
- Free plan
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- Learning curve
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- Setup
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All-in-one AI workspace with 100+ models in one simple interface.
- Free plan
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- Learning curve
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- Setup
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AI workspace to chat with 100+ models, create media, and automate tasks.
- Free plan
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- Learning curve
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- Setup
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Abacus.AI is an AI platform for building apps, automating workflows, creating AI agents, and generating content without coding.
- Free plan
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- Learning curve
- Medium
- Setup
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AdCreative.ai uses AI to create and score ad creatives, helping marketers launch better campaigns faster.
- Free plan
- Yes
- Learning curve
- Easy
- Setup
- Instant—create ads in 60 seconds
Adobe’s AI platform, create images, videos, and effects across Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, and more.
- Free plan
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- Learning curve
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Nonprofit AI lab, open models like OLMo, Molmo, and Tulu for science and AI.
- Free plan
- Yes
- Learning curve
- Advanced
- Setup
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AI venture studio using AI to speed up drug discovery and build biotech startups.
- Free plan
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How these alternatives were chosen
Tools Friendli names as alternatives that this directory also publishes, followed by others in AI. The order is not a ranking, and "—" means we have not checked that field — not that the answer is no.
Friendli also lists vLLM, Hugging Face Inference API, Baseten as alternatives. Those are not in this directory yet, so there is nothing to compare — and nothing to link to.