Leaving Featherless? Uncensored AI models instead
Featherless is a subscription host for open Hugging Face models, and a strong one for heavy use. The alternatives are the hosts below, and Wild West API for the opposite trade: no subscription, per-token billing and a hard spend cap on each key, over a short line of uncensored models that call tools.
What Featherless is, and where it stops
Featherless runs tens of thousands of open Hugging Face models itself, hundreds of them abliterated or uncensored, on a flat monthly subscription rather than per token. As of September 2026 its Chat plan is for human chat only, and API use starts on the Developer plan.
Other options people compare with Featherless
| Option | What it is |
|---|---|
| Arli AI | Subscription host for a large library of roleplay and uncensored finetunes, with concurrency tiers rather than per-token billing. |
| Infermatic | Flat monthly subscription over roleplay and uncensored finetunes. |
| abliteration.ai | Hosted API for its own three abliterated models, including an abliterated GLM-5.3 with 1M context, plus web search and a policy gateway. |
| Together AI | Large catalogue of mainstream open-weight models, per token on serverless or on dedicated endpoints, plus fine-tuning. |
| OpenRouter | A router over many providers: one key and one bill for hundreds of models, each served under its provider's policy. |
| Venice AI | Privacy-first host with its own uncensored models and media generation, sold per token or through its app plans. |
| RunPod | GPUs by the hour: any weights under no policy, with the setup, quantisation and uptime yours to run. |
Weighing the two directly? Wild West API vs Featherless puts pricing, endpoints, spend caps and model policy side by side, checked against Featherless'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 Featherless?
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.