Backfrom Friendli’s own policies · verified 2026-09-02 · some facts not published
Friendli: data residency & retention
Headquarters
🇺🇸 United States (US)
Where inference runs
US
Privacy policy: 'all information you provide will be maintained on web servers and systems located within the U.S.' — a general services statement, not a per-endpoint inference-region guarantee. Company is US-controlled (FriendliAI Corp, Redwood City, CA) with a Seoul, Korea hub; Korean-resident data is transferred to US vendors.
Region pinning
Not disclosed
No self-serve region-pinning disclosed in the privacy policy.
Prompt retention
Retained · until organization/project deletion + up to 1 day
Privacy policy states 'AI inference information' is 'retained for up to one (1) day after the organizations and projects had been deleted' — i.e., inference data persists for the life of the org/project, then up to 1 day.
Trains on API data
Not disclosed
Not addressed in the privacy policy — no statement either way on using API inputs/outputs for model training.
Zero data retention
Not disclosed
No zero-data-retention option mentioned.
Compiled from Friendli’s published privacy policy, terms, and documentation on 2026-09-02. “Not disclosed” means Friendli publishes nothing on the point. Policies change without notice, so verify against the sources above before relying on this for compliance decisions.