Wild West API or OrcaRouter?
OrcaRouter is a hosted router over about 200 mostly frontier models, with adaptive routing and a $0-markup pitch. On price and routing features it leads; Wild West API’s difference is the uncensored catalogue and the hard cap.
Facts checked September 2026 against OrcaRouter’s own site, docs and policies.
| Wild West API | OrcaRouter | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Hosted gateway for one uncensored, tool capable model line (Xploded), at twice the upstream price. | A hosted OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible router over ~200 models, with adaptive routing, failover, guardrails and an MIT-licensed self-hostable "Lite" edition. |
| Pricing | Pay as you go, 2x upstream price, $5 minimum top-up, no subscription required. | Provider list price with $0 routing fee on the free Hacker tier; a Team plan (price inconsistent on their page); BYOK carries a 5% default fee. |
| OpenAI-compatible | Yes | Yes |
| Anthropic-compatible | Yes, /v1/messages (verified with Claude Code) | Yes, /v1/messages |
| 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. | None: ~200 mostly frontier/commercial models, nothing positioned as uncensored |
| Per-key spend caps | Lifetime and monthly per-key caps, enforced by reserving the worst case and clamping max_tokens | Per-key total USD credit limit and a key expiry; no per-key rate limit or model allowlist; monthly/in-flight mechanics not verified |
Where OrcaRouter is the better choice
- Price: provider list price with $0 markup on the free tier versus Wild West API’s 2x, plus BYOK at a 5% default fee.
- Features: adaptive routing that grades each prompt and picks a model, failover, guardrails and an agent firewall, a prompt registry, and a self-hostable MIT "Lite" edition.
Where Wild West API is different
- Catalogue shape: Wild West API carries 440+ OpenRouter models including uncensored and roleplay finetunes; OrcaRouter is ~200 mostly frontier models with none positioned as uncensored.
The uncensored models Wild West API sells
If you are comparing OrcaRouter 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.