- March 24, 2026
- 3 min read
FriendliAI Achieves SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA Compliance
- FriendliAI is now officially SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA compliant.
- These compliance achievements validate that our security controls aren't just well-designed; they operate effectively and consistently over time.
- Healthcare, life sciences, finance, and enterprise customers can now deploy frontier AI inference on FriendliAI with the confidence that their data is protected to the highest industry standards.
We built FriendliAI to do one thing better than anyone else: run frontier AI models faster, more efficiently, and at enterprise scale. But speed without trust is not something we're willing to ship. Today, we're proud to announce that FriendliAI has achieved both SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA compliance — two of the most rigorous and widely recognized security and privacy standards in the industry.
What These Milestones Mean
SOC 2 Type II
SOC 2 (System and Organization Controls 2) is an auditing framework developed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) that evaluates how a company manages and protects customer data across five trust services criteria: security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy.
For FriendliAI, achieving Type II means an independent third-party auditor examined our access controls, infrastructure security, incident response procedures, change management processes, and vendor oversight across months of real-world operations. Every GPU node, every deployment, every configuration change was scrutinized. The result is independently verified proof that security at FriendliAI is not a one-time effort, it is how we operate.
HIPAA
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) establishes strict standards for protecting sensitive patient health information. Achieving HIPAA compliance means that healthcare organizations, life sciences companies, and digital health startups can confidently bring their most sensitive workloads to FriendliAI — including applications like clinical decision support, medical data analysis, personalized patient experiences, and AI-powered healthcare accessibility tools.
For AI inference platforms, HIPAA compliance is a prerequisite to unlocking some of the most impactful use cases in generative AI. We're proud to be positioned to support this next wave of healthcare innovation.
Why This Matters for You
Compliance achievements aren't just about checking a box. They're table stakes for building production AI applications that handle sensitive data at scale. Here's what this means for different types of organizations:
Enterprise teams can now include FriendliAI in vendor evaluations with confidence. SOC 2 Type II is frequently a hard requirement for enterprise procurement in regulated industries — finance, healthcare, government, and beyond. Our full audit report is available upon request through our Trust Center.
Healthcare and life sciences organizations can leverage FriendliAI's industry-leading inference speed including our purpose-built GPU kernels, speculative decoding, and continuous batching, for use cases that require HIPAA-compliant infrastructure. Running fast inference on sensitive data is no longer a tradeoff.
Startups building in regulated spaces can ship faster knowing their inference infrastructure is compliant from day one — without having to manage the compliance burden themselves.
Security as a First-Class Concern
At FriendliAI, we've always believed that performance and reliability go hand-in-hand with trust. We deliver 99.99% uptime SLAs, geographically distributed infrastructure, and 3× faster inference than alternatives, and now we've independently validated that the security posture protecting all of that is enterprise-grade.
This is an important milestone, not a finish line. We continue to invest in our security program, conduct routine third-party penetration tests, and improve our controls as our platform evolves.
Start Building with Confidence
Whether you're running inference on frontier open-weight models, deploying fine-tuned proprietary models, or scaling AI applications across global regions, FriendliAI now gives you the performance and the compliance posture your organization requires.
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What is FriendliAI?
FriendliAI is the Frontier Inference Cloud for Agents, delivering high throughput, low latency, and reliability at scale for agentic workloads. Through vertically optimized inference infrastructure, it delivers 2–5× faster output token speed and a 99.99% uptime SLA for high-volume production traffic.
How does FriendliAI reduce inference costs?
FriendliAI reduces inference costs through higher GPU utilization and optimized inference performance. FriendliAI's patented continuous batching technique, along with quantization, speculative decoding, KV cache offloading, multi-LoRA serving, and autoscaling, helps you serve more tokens with fewer GPUs, lowering your infrastructure costs without sacrificing performance.
Why should I choose FriendliAI over other inference providers?
FriendliAI is built for production AI agents, combining speed, reliability, and efficiency at scale. It delivers low-latency streaming, reliable long-context inference, and robust tool calling without compromising stability. According to independent OpenRouter benchmarks, FriendliAI consistently ranks among the top providers for throughput, latency, and reliability across leading open-weight models. See why customers choose FriendliAI
Which open-weight models does FriendliAI support?
Run today’s frontier open-weight models—including GLM, MiniMax, Kimi, DeepSeek, Qwen, Gemma, and more—with a simple API call. FriendliAI Model API gives you instant access to the latest models with optimized inference performance for production workloads. Explore models and pricing
How do I get started?
Getting started takes just a few minutes. [1] Sign up for FriendliAI, [2] Generate your API key, and [3] Make your first inference request with frontier open-weight models.
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