A Venice alternative for security work
Venice is a private AI chat product with an API beside it, covering text, images, video and audio for a general audience; PentestLLM is a narrower alternative, an API whose catalog is chosen for security testing. One prepaid key from $10 reaches 9 security-tuned builds, with abliterated and uncensored builds beside them.
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://api.pentestllm.ai/v1", api_key="sk-ptl-live-…")
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
model="auto/security",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this advisory and list what to check on an affected host."}],
)
print(reply.model) # the build that answered
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)
What Venice is, as of November 2026
Venice’s site, read on 11 November 2026, presents a private AI product: chat, image generation, video, audio and music in one app, with the line that you can access leading AI models with your privacy in mind. It describes several privacy modes, including one where it says prompts are never stored and one where prompts are encrypted before leaving your device.
Its pricing page on the same day listed a Free plan, Pro at $18 a month, Pro Plus at $68 and Max at $200, with lower prices on yearly billing. Paid plans include monthly credits, and the page says 100 credits equal $1 and can be spent on the API among other things.
The API is documented as OpenAI-compatible at https://api.venice.ai/api/v1, with more than 100 text models plus image, audio, video and embedding endpoints. The docs describe three ways to pay for it: credits bought in dollars or crypto, a daily allowance from staking its DIEM or VVV tokens, and per-request payment in USDC. Its model price list includes a model named Venice Uncensored. We did not find a security-tuned category on the pages we read, and we say nothing about the quality of its models.
A general product or a security API
- Shape
- Venice: a chat app first, with an API beside it. PentestLLM: an API only, used through your own agent, editor or script.
- Catalog
- Venice: a broad catalog across text, image, video and audio. PentestLLM: text models chosen for security work, 9 of them security-tuned.
- Billing
- Venice: monthly plans with credits, or pay-as-you-go API credit, per its pricing page and docs. PentestLLM: a prepaid balance from $10 by card, spent per token.
- Privacy
- Venice leads with privacy modes, including encrypted ones, and that is its main selling point. PentestLLM’s is the model catalog; read its privacy page and decide what your engagement rules let you send.
- Model choice
- PentestLLM’s
auto/securityroutes each request to a fast, balanced or frontier security build and bills at that build’s price.
What security testers need from a model
A tester asks narrow questions: what this scan output means, whether this code path is reachable, how to word this finding. Two things decide whether a model is useful for that. It has to engage with the subject instead of declining it, and it has to know the material. A general uncensored model covers the first. A security-tuned build is meant to cover both.
PentestLLM lists 9 security-tuned builds, and abliterated and uncensored general builds beside them for the tasks where breadth matters more. Refusals are reduced, not removed, and every request falls under the acceptable use policy: authorized testing only.
What the API includes
Requests go to https://api.pentestllm.ai/v1 in the OpenAI format, or to the Messages endpoint in the Anthropic format, on the same key. Context windows run up to 1M tokens. Declared in a request, web search ($0.01 per search), page fetch ($0.001 per page fetched), a code sandbox ($0.05 per container-hour, 1-minute minimum) and remote MCP (No tool fee) run on the API side. Every listed model is checked against the real endpoint daily, and the models page shows the live list.
Using it from an agent
There is no chat window to open. You put the base URL and key into a client you already use: OpenCode or aider in a terminal, Cline or Cursor in an editor, Claude Code through the Messages endpoint. A client that already talks to an OpenAI-compatible API needs the same three values changed: base URL, key and model id.
Billing is per token from the prepaid balance, with no subscription. On 2026-11-12 input prices for security builds start at $0.40 per million tokens, and the table below is the live catalog.
When Venice is the better choice
If you want a chat app in your browser and on your phone, with image, video and audio generation in the same place, Venice is that and PentestLLM is not. If encrypted or no-storage modes are a requirement, Venice describes them, and you should read its documentation on what each mode covers. If you prefer to pay with crypto or by staking, its docs list those options; PentestLLM is prepaid by card.
Choose PentestLLM when the work is security testing, the client is an agent or a script, and you want builds picked for that job. Use either only on systems you own or have written permission to test.
9 security builds, priced per token
Read from the live catalog on 2026-11-12. Prices are US dollars per million tokens, paid from a prepaid balance that starts at $10. The id auto/security has no price of its own: each request is billed at the build that answered.
| Build | Input | Output | Context |
|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.8 27B Cybersecurity | $0.40 | $2.40 | 262,144 |
| Gemma 4 26B A4B Cybersecurity | $0.4224 | $1.3376 | 262,144 |
| GLM-5.3 Flash Cybersecurity | $0.5093 | $1.6975 | 1,048,576 |
| Red Team (Flash) | $0.90 | $3.00 | not published |
| Red Team (Pro) | $1.50 | $6.00 | not published |
| OrcaCyber MiniMax M3.1 Flash | $2.00 | $4.00 | 261,632 |
| OrcaCyber Qwen3.8 Flash Next | $2.00 | $4.00 | 261,632 |
| Cyber Frontier | $5.25 | $15.75 | 1,048,576 |
| OrcaCyber Zero 1.5 | $7.50 | $18.75 | 999,488 |
Questions
Per its own site in November 2026, a private AI product offering chat, image, video and audio generation, with an OpenAI-compatible API for developers.
On 11 November 2026 its pricing page listed a Free plan, Pro at $18 a month, Pro Plus at $68 and Max at $200, with lower yearly prices, and said credits can be spent on the API. Check venice.ai for current plans.
Yes. Its docs describe an OpenAI-compatible API at api.venice.ai with text, image, audio, video and embedding endpoints.
No. PentestLLM is an API. You use it through an agent, an editor extension, an SDK or curl, and the agent guides cover the common clients.
They are security-tuned, abliterated or uncensored builds, so they answer security questions that general models decline. The honest term is reduced refusals, and the acceptable use policy applies to every request.
Per token from a prepaid balance, minimum top-up $10 by card, with no subscription. On 2026-11-12 input prices for security builds start at $0.40 per million tokens.
Read next
- OpenRouter alternativeA catalog of security and uncensored builds, next to a general model router.
- abliteration.ai alternativeMany abliterated and security builds per token, next to a monthly plan.
- Uncensored AIUncensored AI models by API for authorized security work: what the word means here and what is served.
- Uncensored LLM for pentestingWhat abliterated and security-tuned builds change for authorized penetration testing.
Facts about other products and tools on this page were read from their own pages on 11 November 2026: venice.ai, venice.ai pricing, Venice API docs: about, Venice API docs: pricing. They change; check the source before relying on a figure.
One key, from $10
PentestLLM is for systems you own or have written permission to test. The acceptable use policy says what is not allowed.
- Input, 8,000 tokens at $0.40 per million
- $0.0032
- Output, 1,000 tokens at $2.40 per million
- $0.0024
- One turn
- $0.0056
- 1,000 turns
- $5.60