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Friendli — pricing & performance

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Models served
8
of 1,094 tracked models
Mean output speed
86
tokens per second, averaged over
8 measured endpoints
Mean latency
0.6s
time to first token, averaged over
8 measured endpoints
Cheapest blended
$0.20
per 1M tokens at a 3:1
input:output blend
Output speed on Friendli

Output tokens per second for all 8 models on Friendli with published throughput telemetry, the most recent figure OpenRouter publishes for each host. Higher is better. We do not run these measurements ourselves.

All 8 of 8 models
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8 models on Friendli
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Model Creator Input $/M Output $/M Blended Speed TTFT Context
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.2 DeepSeek $0.50 $1.50 $0.75 39 0.4s 164k
Google: Gemma 4 31B Google $0.14 $0.40 $0.20 100 0.6s 262k
MiniMax: MiniMax M2.5 MiniMax $0.30 $1.20 $0.53 163 0.3s 197k
Qwen: Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 Alibaba $0.20 $0.80 $0.35 32 0.4s 262k
Z.ai: GLM 5.1 Z.ai $1.40 $4.40 $2.15 69 0.5s 203k
Z.ai: GLM 5.2 Z.ai $1.40 $4.40 $2.15 104 0.3s 1.05M
Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Z.ai $1.26 $3.96 $1.94 111 0.9s 1.05M
Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash Z.ai $0.15 $0.50 $0.24 69 1.7s 1.05M
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Source. Prices, endpoint availability and throughput for Friendli are ingested from OpenRouter; model metadata is enriched from models.dev. A blank cell means the figure was not published for that endpoint — it never means zero. Blended price is (3 × input + output) ÷ 4, the same 3:1 blend used everywhere on this site; see methodology. Quality scores are not provider-specific: a model scores the same wherever it is hosted, so quality lives on the model pages.