Venice API key setup
Private, uncensored AI for text and image generation. No account required to try. Decentralized inference with focus on privacy and free speech.
Disclosure: the sign-up link in step 1 is a partner link — Dracon may earn a commission when you create an account through it. It never changes the price you pay, and Venice's own site is always reachable directly at venice.ai.
Get your key
- Open the Venice API keys page: venice.ai/chat?ref=Q34J0_ partner link
- Create an account and generate an API key.
- Paste it into the Dracon BYOK provider keys — stored encrypted (AES-256-GCM), used browser-direct, works in every Dracon tool.
Free tier
No recurring free tier advertised as of the last check. Usage is billed per the provider's listed pricing — you pay them directly, no Dracon markup.
Rate limits: Varies by plan
Connection details
- Base URL
https://api.venice.ai/api/v1- API shape
- OpenAI-compatible
- Env var
VENICE_API_KEY- Models
- llama-3.3-70b, qwen-2.5-qwq-32b
- Model lineup
- Llama 3, Mistral, Flux, SDXL
Our verdicts on this kind of provider
Independent comparisons we keep current as pricing and free tiers shift. A guide is setup; a verdict is whether it's worth setting up.