friendliai/friendli-client

The friendli-client repository is explicitly marked as deprecated, having been superseded by the unified 'friendli-sdk'. As a standalone project, it holds no current competitive value. While the underlying FriendliAI engine was a pioneer in 'iteration batching' (now commonly known as continuous batching), this specific repository is merely a thin wrapper for their hosted API. In the broader landscape, FriendliAI competes with high-performance inference engines like vLLM, NVIDIA's TensorRT-LLM, and Hugging Face's TGI. The low star count (50) and zero velocity reflect its status as a legacy artifact. For an investor or developer, the risk is absolute as the project is no longer maintained by the vendor, and the market for third-party inference wrappers is rapidly consolidating into platform-native SDKs (like OpenAI's or Anthropic's) or standard open-source protocols (OpenAI-compatible APIs).