Leaving Chutes AI? Uncensored AI models instead
Chutes is cheap open-model inference from a decentralised network. The alternatives below are the conventional hosts it is compared with, and Wild West API for a short line of uncensored models from one operator, per token, with a hard cap on every key.
What Chutes is, and where it stops
Chutes is a decentralised serverless host built on Bittensor, with an OpenAI-compatible endpoint and a broad open-model catalogue (Kimi, GLM, DeepSeek, Qwen, Gemma, MiniMax, Mistral). It sells pay-as-you-go per token or Plus and Pro subscriptions at $10 and $20 a month for a usage discount (checked 2 October 2026). The models are mostly the standard releases, served by whichever miner picks up the request.
Other options people compare with Chutes
| Option | What it is |
|---|---|
| OpenRouter | A router over many providers: one key and one bill for hundreds of models, each served under its provider's policy. |
| DeepInfra | One of the cheaper per-token hosts for open-weight models, with a wide catalogue that changes as models are added and retired. |
| Together AI | Large catalogue of mainstream open-weight models, per token on serverless or on dedicated endpoints, plus fine-tuning. |
| Featherless | Flat monthly subscription over tens of thousands of open Hugging Face models, hundreds of them abliterated or uncensored, hosted by Featherless itself. |
| Novita AI | Low-cost open-weight host, including some uncensored builds, and an upstream that gateways route to. |
Weighing the two directly? Wild West API vs Chutes puts pricing, endpoints, spend caps and model policy side by side, checked against Chutes's own site.
What Wild West API carries instead
Wild West API sells 5 uncensored models on one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, every one able to call tools. Ordered for this particular job rather than by a single ranking: Outlaw 1 Xploded leads because it is the cheapest of the set on output at $1.00 per million tokens.
| Model | Context | In | Out | Tools |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Outlaw 1 Xploded outlaw-1-xploded |
1.05M | $0.300 | $1.00 | Yes |
| GLM 5.3 Flash Xploded glm-5.3-flash-xploded |
1.05M | $0.400 | $1.60 | Yes |
| Qwen3.8 27B Xploded qwen3.8-27b-xploded |
524k | $0.300 | $2.40 | Yes |
| MiMo V2.6 Flash Xploded mimo-v2.6-flash-xploded |
1.05M | $1.00 | $3.00 | Yes |
Switching takes one base URL
Anything that speaks the OpenAI chat completions format works unchanged. Point it here, use a Wild West API key, and name the model from the table.
curl https://wildwestapi.com/v1/chat/completions \ -H "Authorization: Bearer sk-ww-..." \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "model": "outlaw-1-xploded", "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}] }'
FAQ
Is Wild West API actually uncensored, or does it just say so?
Wild West API does not moderate requests. It prices the call, holds the money against your key cap and passes the request to the model. What comes back is whatever that model does: an uncensored build refuses far less than a frontier model but can still decline, and only an abliterated build has the refusal direction removed outright. Neither tag is a promise that any given answer will arrive.
What does it cost compared with Chutes?
You pay per token at the rates in the table above, with no subscription. $0.300 in and $1.00 out per million tokens for Outlaw 1 Xploded.
Can I cap what a key is allowed to spend?
Yes, and the cap is enforced before the request goes upstream rather than reconciled afterwards. The reply cannot physically cost more than the hold placed before it was sent.
Will it work with my existing client?
If the client takes an OpenAI-compatible base URL, yes: point it at https://wildwestapi.com/v1 with a Wild West API key. Claude Code and the Anthropic SDKs use the Anthropic format, which is served too.