Wild West API or Featherless?
Featherless is a subscription host for open Hugging Face models, running them itself. For a huge open and uncensored catalogue at a predictable monthly price it is the better tool. Wild West API is pay-as-you-go, adds closed frontier models, and caps hard.
Facts checked September 2026 against Featherless’s own site, docs and policies.
| Wild West API | Featherless | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Hosted gateway for one uncensored, tool capable model line (Xploded), at twice the upstream price. | A serverless host that runs open Hugging Face models itself (plus dedicated GPUs), rather than routing to third parties. |
| Pricing | Pay as you go, 2x upstream price, $5 minimum top-up, no subscription required. | Subscription, not pure pay as you go. Chat $25/month flat (human chat only, no API/app/resale). Developer from $50/month of per-token credits (API and agents allowed, resale No). Business is custom. |
| OpenAI-compatible | Yes | Yes |
| Anthropic-compatible | Yes, /v1/messages (verified with Claude Code) | None documented |
| Uncensored / abliterated | Four uncensored models, the Xploded line: GLM 5.3, GLM 5.3 Flash, MiMo V2.6 Flash and Qwen3.8 27B. Every one calls tools. | Tens of thousands of open models, ~727 abliterated / uncensored / heretic variants, self-hosted |
| Per-key spend caps | Lifetime and monthly per-key caps, enforced by reserving the worst case and clamping max_tokens | Org credit-balance blocking and concurrency limits; no per-key dollar cap documented |
Where Featherless is the better choice
- Catalogue for open and uncensored models: tens of thousands of Hugging Face models including hundreds of abliterated and uncensored variants, versus Wild West API’s single uncensored model. Featherless hosts them itself, so no third-party router sees the prompt.
- Predictable cost for heavy use: $25/month flat with unlimited tokens for human chat, and Developer per-token rates with no gateway markup and credits that never expire.
Where Wild West API is different
- No subscription on Wild West API: a $5 top-up, pay per token, plus closed frontier models (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google via OpenRouter) that Featherless does not host. Wild West API’s keys can also be built into apps, which the Featherless Chat plan forbids.
The uncensored models Wild West API sells
If you are comparing Featherless because you want an uncensored or abliterated model API, these are the models on Wild West API: Outlaw 1 abliterated, GLM 5.3 uncensored, GLM 5.3 Flash uncensored, MiMo V2.6 Flash abliterated and Qwen3.8 27B uncensored. Every one calls tools, works in Claude Code through the Anthropic endpoint, and is priced at twice what we pay upstream, per million tokens.
| Model | What it is | Context | Price in / out | Supports |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Outlaw 1 Xploded outlaw-1-xploded | Outlaw 1 abliterated API | 1M | $0.30 / $1.00 | tools, vision, reasoning |
| GLM 5.3 Xploded glm-5.3-xploded | GLM 5.3 uncensored API | 1M | $2.50 / $4.50 | tools, reasoning |
| GLM 5.3 Flash Xploded glm-5.3-flash-xploded | GLM 5.3 Flash uncensored API | 1M | $0.40 / $1.60 | tools, vision, reasoning |
| MiMo V2.6 Flash Xploded mimo-v2.6-flash-xploded | MiMo V2.6 Flash abliterated API | 1M | $1.00 / $3.00 | tools, vision, reasoning |
| Qwen3.8 27B Xploded qwen3.8-27b-xploded | Qwen3.8 27B uncensored API | 524K | $0.30 / $2.40 | tools, vision, reasoning |
FAQ
Which uncensored models does Wild West API sell?
Wild West API sells Outlaw 1 Xploded, GLM 5.3 Xploded, GLM 5.3 Flash Xploded, MiMo V2.6 Flash Xploded, Qwen3.8 27B Xploded. The table above has the price and context for each.
Are these models abliterated or uncensored?
Outlaw 1 Xploded and MiMo V2.6 Flash Xploded are abliterated: the refusal direction was removed from the weights. GLM 5.3 Xploded, GLM 5.3 Flash Xploded, Qwen3.8 27B Xploded are uncensored: the refusal was trained back out. The abliterated vs uncensored page explains the difference.
Which one answers fastest?
MiMo V2.6 Flash Xploded usually starts answering in one to two seconds. The GLM 5.3 Flash model thinks before it answers, so its first word can take much longer.