Large Language Models (LLMs)

Claude Platform vs FriendliAI

Compare Claude Platform and FriendliAI side-by-side. See feature differences and pricing in the Large Language Models (LLMs) category.

Claude Platform

by Anthropic

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Pricing: Usage-based per million tokens: Claude Haiku 4.5 at $1 input and $5 output, Claude Opus 5 at $5 and $25.

Claude Platform is Anthropic's API and console for building apps and agents on Claude models, billed per token with no seat plans.

11 /18 features Full profile

FriendliAI

by FriendliAI

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Pricing: Usage-based: Model APIs from $0.14 per 1M input tokens; Dedicated Endpoints $4 to $12 per GPU hour, billed per second; BYOG and Enterprise quoted.

FriendliAI runs open-weight and custom LLMs for teams building AI agents, through an OpenAI-compatible inference API billed by usage or by the GPU hour.

12 /18 features Full profile

Feature Comparison

Large Language Models (LLMs) features side-by-side

Feature	Claude Platform 11/18 features	FriendliAI 12/18 features
Published context window size The vendor states the maximum input length.	Yes	Yes
Image input support Accepts images as part of the prompt.	Yes	Yes
Audio input support Accepts speech or audio files directly.	No	Yes
Function and tool calling Can return a structured call to your own tools.	Yes	Yes
JSON schema output mode Guarantees output conforming to a supplied schema.	Yes	Yes
Extended reasoning mode An explicit setting that trades latency for harder thinking.	Yes	Yes
Prompt caching discount Repeated prefixes are billed at a reduced rate.	Yes	Yes
Batch inference API Submit work offline for a lower price.	Yes	No
Fine-tuning offered Customers can tune the model on their own data.	No	No
Open weights release The weights are downloadable, whatever the licence.	No	Yes
Zero data retention option The vendor will contract not to store request content.	Yes	No
Regional data residency Inference can be pinned to a named region.	Yes	Yes
Published safety evaluations A model card or system card with evaluation results.	No	No
Free tier or trial credits You can test it before contracting.	No	No
Enterprise agreement available Committed-use contracts with support terms.	Yes	Yes
Published deprecation policy The vendor states how long a model version lives.	Yes	No
Published benchmark results First-party benchmark numbers are disclosed.	No	Yes
Embeddings endpoint The same vendor also serves embeddings.	No	Yes
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