HiFriend

Model Information

Display Name: HiFriend

API Model ID: hinow/hifriend

Category: Text To Text

Description: HiFriend is HiNow's companion model: someone to talk to. It chats, gives advice, helps with everyday life, suggests products, checks the weather and sets reminders. Free for the user. **Key Features:** - Free to use, on every plan - Persona chosen by the user (name, gender, tone) - Local retrieval so the friend knows what to say, not just how to say it - Answer cache: a question already answered comes back instantly, at no cost - Short, conversational answers by design **Capabilities:** - Everyday conversation and advice - Weather lookup - Reminders and scheduling - Product suggestions - Multilingual, with the reply always in the user's language **Best For:** - Daily companionship and small talk - Quick practical help without a paid model - First contact with HiNow for free-tier users **Technical Specs:** - Context window: 262K tokens - Max output: 1024 tokens - Cost: free (0/0 per 1M tokens) - Backed by a cost-efficient model chain with automatic failover

Context Window: 1,048,576 tokens

Max Output: 8,192 tokens

How to Use This Model

To use HiFriend via the HInow.ai API, use the model ID: hinow/hifriend

API Request Example (Chat/Text)


POST https://api.hinow.ai/v1/chat/completions
Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "model": "hinow/hifriend",
  "messages": [
    {"role": "user", "content": "Your message here"}
  ]
}
              

Pricing

  • input: $0
  • output: $0

Available Parameters

  • temperature: Controls randomness (0-2). Default: 0.7 (Options: 0, 0.3, 0.5, 0.7, 1.0, 1.5, 2.0)
  • top_p: Nucleus sampling (0-1). Default: 0.9 (Options: 0.1, 0.5, 0.7, 0.9, 0.95, 1.0)
  • max_tokens: Max tokens to generate (1-8192) (Options: 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192)
  • response_format: Output format (Options: text, json_object)

Quick Reference

To use this model, set: "model": "hinow/hifriend"

Featured: Yes

Documentation: https://hinow.ai/models/hinow/hifriend

API Endpoint: https://api.hinow.ai/v1

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HiFriend

HiFriend

Featured

hinow/hifriend

$0.000000 / $0.000000
per 1M tokens (in/out)

About

HiFriend is HiNow's companion model: someone to talk to. It chats, gives advice, helps with everyday life, suggests products, checks the weather and sets reminders. Free for the user.

Key Features:

  • Free to use, on every plan
  • Persona chosen by the user (name, gender, tone)
  • Local retrieval so the friend knows what to say, not just how to say it
  • Answer cache: a question already answered comes back instantly, at no cost
  • Short, conversational answers by design

Capabilities:

  • Everyday conversation and advice
  • Weather lookup
  • Reminders and scheduling
  • Product suggestions
  • Multilingual, with the reply always in the user's language

Best For:

  • Daily companionship and small talk
  • Quick practical help without a paid model
  • First contact with HiNow for free-tier users

Technical Specs:

  • Context window: 262K tokens
  • Max output: 1024 tokens
  • Cost: free (0/0 per 1M tokens)
  • Backed by a cost-efficient model chain with automatic failover

Capabilities

Text To Text
Context1049K tokens
Max Output8K tokens

Parameters

temperature

Controls randomness (0-2). Default: 0.7

00.30.50.71.01.52.0
top_p

Nucleus sampling (0-1). Default: 0.9

0.10.50.70.90.951.0
max_tokens

Max tokens to generate (1-8192)

2565121024204840968192
response_format

Output format

textjson_object

Code Examples

curl -X POST https://api.hinow.ai/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $HINOW_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
    "model": "hinow/hifriend",
    "messages": [
      {"role": "user", "content": "Hello! How are you?"}
    ],
    "parameters": {
      "temperature": "0",
      "top_p": "0.1",
      "max_tokens": "256",
      "response_format": "text"
    }
  }'