Wild West API or Venice API?
Venice is a privacy-first, uncensored API with genuine privacy engineering for some of its models. For the strongest privacy guarantees it is ahead of Wild West API; on price and breadth of standard models Wild West API is ahead.
Facts checked September 2026 against Venice API’s own site, docs and policies.
| Wild West API | Venice API | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Pay as you go, 2x upstream price, $5 minimum top-up, no subscription required. | Pay per token at published rates, roughly 20% to 58% above OpenRouter list on sampled models. Card, crypto or staked DIEM. App plans from $18/month. x402 wallet pay-per-request, $5 minimum. |
| OpenAI-compatible | Yes | Yes |
| Anthropic-compatible | Yes, /v1/messages (verified with Claude Code) | No native Messages endpoint; Claude Code needs claude-code-router |
| 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. | Several first-party uncensored text models plus uncensored image models; none named abliterated |
| Per-key spend caps | Lifetime and monthly per-key caps, enforced by reserving the worst case and clamping max_tokens | Per-key USD (and DIEM) caps with day/month/lifetime windows and a per-key private-models-only switch; in-flight enforcement not documented |
Where Venice API is the better choice
- More uncensored options plus media (image, video, music, TTS), DIEM staking for a fixed daily allowance, and a per-key "private models only" switch.
Where Wild West API is different
- Harness first: one uncensored model with tool calling, served in both the OpenAI and Anthropic formats so Claude Code and Codex connect directly, at a flat 2x upstream with no subscription or token staking needed.
The uncensored models Wild West API sells
If you are comparing Venice API 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.