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You can use LlamaIndex to interact with FriendliAI. This makes migration of existing applications already using LlamaIndex particularly easy.

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How to use

Before you start, ensure you’ve already obtained the API_KEY from the Friendli Suite > Personal Settings > API Keys. 
pip install llama-index llama-index-llms-friendli

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Instantiation

Now we can instantiate our model object and generate chat completions. The default model (i.e. zai-org/GLM-5.2) will be used if no model is specified. 
import os
from llama_index.llms.friendli import Friendli

os.environ['API_KEY'] = "YOUR_API_KEY"

llm = Friendli(model="zai-org/GLM-5.2")

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Chat completion

Generate a response from a given conversation. 
from llama_index.core.llms import ChatMessage, MessageRole

message = ChatMessage(role=MessageRole.USER, content="Tell me a joke.")
resp = llm.chat([message])

print(resp)

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Completion

Generate a response from a given prompt. 
prompt = "Draft a cover letter for a role in software engineering."
resp = llm.complete(prompt)

print(resp)
Last modified on June 16, 2026