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FriendliAI
L0 · Third-country operatorfriendliUnited StatesNorth America
US/Korean inference provider serving open-weight models via serverless Model APIs over an OpenAI-compatible API.
Compliance posture · Stav's assessment
Jurisdiction
US · United States
Data residency
🇺🇸 US
CLOUD Act / FISA 702
Exposed
Stav sovereignty level
Stav's assessment
Five dimensions
Serving residency
Poor
Legal exposure
Poor
Serving retention
Adequate
Security posture
Adequate
Contractual posture
Weak
Bands only. The scores and Stav's notes per dimension are read in the workspace.
Customers only
The full assessment
Stav's narrative, every risk item with its source, the safeguards that offset them and the privacy-policy issues found: the part of the page a procurement review runs on.
Stav's narrative · 7 risk items · 3 safeguards · 2 privacy-policy issues · DPA, sub-processor list, terms, privacy policy — sign in to read them.
Traffic through Stav is covered by Stav's customer DPA, which lists Stav's sub-processors.
Stav's serving-side assessment, compiled from the provider's published documentation and Stav's operational review. Last reviewed 24 Oct 2026. An assessment, not a guarantee or regulatory determination. Confirm against the provider's own documentation before contracting.
Sovereignty ladder · how the level was reached
L0Third-country operatorIndicativeregistry 4.1
This level applies to traffic routed through Stav.
FriendliAI is at L0. L1 is blocked because inference runs on GPUs in the US and data is stored there, and FriendliAI Corp. can be compelled under the CLOUD Act and FISA.
3 criteria from L1: Customer data in the Union, Infrastructure in the Union, No coerced vulnerability silence.
Stav's own assessment against criterion registry 4.1. Indicative, not an official recognition, which only a national authority can confer. Criteria follow the proposed Cloud and AI Development Act and are expected to change. “Union” reads as EU/EEA at every rung. CADA itself still says “in the Union”: until the Act is incorporated into the EEA Agreement, a Norwegian, Icelandic or Liechtenstein route does not evidence formal Union assurance for an EU public-sector buyer. UK and Swiss providers are capped at L1.
Verified 23 Oct 2026About the ladder →Certifications & legal documents · the provider's own facts
SOC 2 Type II
FriendliAI inference platform. Report available on request. · Claimed by the provider
“Claimed by the provider” means the provider states the certification. Stav has not seen the certificate or report.
Terms of servicepublished
Privacy policypublished
Data processing agreement (DPA)published
Sub-processor listpublished
Links to every document and certificate — 4 legal documents, 1 certification source
Compiled by Stav from the provider's published documentation. Last verified 23 Oct 2026. Reflects what the provider states, not a Stav guarantee or regulatory determination. Confirm against the provider's own pages before contracting.
Endpoints served · 5
| Model | Input / M | Output / M | TTFT | Tok/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GLM-5.3 Flash | €0.13 | €0.45 | 0.44 s | 560 |
| GLM-5.3 | €1.13 | €3.55 | 0.43 s | 278 |
| glm-5-2 | €1.25 | €3.94 | 0.45 s | 186 |
| GLM-5.1 | €1.25 | €3.94 | 0.41 s | 231 |
| Gemma 4 31B It | €0.13 | €0.36 | 0.39 s | 214 |