Venice AI vs NotHoly: price, licence, expiring credit

Venice AI sells the same open base models NotHoly serves, but behind a subscription and a personal-use licence. Its API is metered on top of a monthly plan whose credit expires: the US$ 18 plan includes US$ 1 of it. On the base models both catalogues share, Venice publishes a per-token rate on each; NotHoly meters the same bases abliterated, with the current rate on pricing.

Data collected on 9 and 10 November 2026 from Venice's plans page, API pricing, model list and Terms of Service, and from NotHoly pricing. Venice's figures are its list prices on those dates; NotHoly's per-token rate for each base is on pricing. Prices change, so check both.

#What Venice charges on the shared bases

The fair comparison is base against base. These are the cases where both catalogues serve the same underlying model, with Venice's published per-token rate and how it serves it.

Base model	Venice, input / output	How Venice serves it	NotHoly
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017	US$ 0.33 / 1.32 (deepseek-v4-1-flash-1017-uncensored)	From a source tagged abliterated	Same base, abliterated, metered; rate on pricing
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash	US$ 0.30 / 1.20 (deepseek-v4-1-flash)	Uncensored source	Same base, metered; rate on pricing
GLM 5.3	US$ 1.75 / 5.50 (z-ai-glm-5-3)	Original alignment, not abliterated	Same base, abliterated, metered; rate on pricing
GLM 5.3 Flash	US$ 0.15 / 0.50 (z-ai-glm-5-3-flash)	Original alignment, not abliterated	Same base, abliterated, metered; rate on pricing

On two of these bases Venice serves the original, with the publisher's alignment untouched, so for security work you would be paying for a model nobody modified to stop refusing. NotHoly serves the same bases abliterated, meaning the refusal direction was removed from the weights as our explainer describes, and meters each at the rate on pricing; compare the two there on the day you buy.

Venice also lists two abliterated models, resold from a third party whose base is not stated in the model list. They cost US$ 3.00 / 5.00 and US$ 1.25 / 2.50 per million tokens.

#What the subscription adds to the meter

Venice's API is metered, and on three plans it sits on top of a monthly fee whose credit does not carry far. A month of code review at, say, 10 million input and 2 million output tokens is billed per token at the rates above, and on the smaller plans most of the monthly credit is gone before you reach that volume. NotHoly has no fee under the meter: you pay for the tokens and nothing else.

#What the Venice plans really include

Venice sells subscriptions first and API second. The plans are built around chat, image, video and music, and the plan page describes Pro Plus as "scaled for serious creators and users".

Plan	Price per month	API credit included	Unused credit
Free	US$ 0	None; 10 text prompts a day	Not applicable
Pro	US$ 18	100 credits, or US$ 1	No banking
Pro Plus	US$ 68	7,500 credits, or US$ 75	Kept for 2 months
Max	US$ 200	22,500 credits, or US$ 225	Kept for 3 months

Plans renew automatically, and the terms say fees are non-refundable except where the law requires. Monthly credits expire: Pro has no banking at all, and the larger plans keep unused credit for two or three months. The API itself is always metered. In Venice's words, "There is no unmetered API tier".

#How NotHoly billing differs

NotHoly has no subscription. You top up US$ 5, 10, 50, 500 (5% off) or 1,250 (10% off) by card or crypto, pay per token, and the credit does not expire. A month with no work costs nothing, and nothing renews.

Each model's base and context window are published on the models page, and the per-token rate is on pricing. The API accepts OpenAI and Anthropic formats at api.notholy.com/v1.

#What the per-token price leaves out

Price is the smaller problem with Venice for professional use. Section 7.1 of its terms grants a licence "solely for your personal, non-commercial use". Section 2 says "Output is generated and provided by the third-party providers". Section 7.3 lets Venice revoke API keys "at any time in its sole discretion, with or without notice".

Of about 130 text models in the list, nine are refusal-free by ID or source. The rest, including the closed models from large labs, keep their original alignment, and for those Venice's own privacy documentation says "you should assume the provider is storing your content". Venice AI for professional security work reads the terms in full.

The model that carries Venice's name, venice-uncensored-1-2, is a fine-tune of a 24B model with 128K of context, at US$ 0.20 / 0.90. Abliterated vs uncensored models explains why we do not build on fine-tunes.

#Where each fits

Venice fits personal use of a large model catalogue with image, video, music and on-device history, and on GLM 5.3 Flash at the original alignment it is the cheaper option on that one base. NotHoly fits paid security work on abliterated models with published bases: no subscription, credit that does not expire, and terms that allow commercial use. NotHoly makes no images, video or music.

#Frequently asked questions

#How much does Venice AI cost?

Pro is US$ 18 a month, Pro Plus US$ 68 and Max US$ 200, with up to 16.7% off on annual billing. API use is metered separately.

#What is the Venice AI API price per million tokens?

It varies by model. On 10 November 2026, deepseek-v4-1-flash-1017-uncensored was US$ 0.33 input and US$ 1.32 output, and z-ai-glm-5-3 was US$ 1.75 and US$ 5.50.

#Does Venice AI have abliterated models?

A few. Its default uncensored model comes from a source tagged abliterated, and it resells two abliterated models from a third party. Its own branded model is a fine-tune.

#What is a good Venice AI alternative for pentesting?

One with abliterated models at lower prices and terms that are not limited to personal use. See pentesting. We also compared Drael with NotHoly.

#What is the cheapest uncensored API in 2026?

It depends on the base model and the day. Compare Venice's published per-token rate on each shared base against NotHoly's rate on pricing; the one base where Venice runs cheapest, it serves at its original alignment.

#Verdict

Venice sells the same open weights behind a subscription whose API credit is small and expires, and a licence written for personal use. It is a consumer product for chat and media that also has an API. NotHoly meters the same bases abliterated with no subscription and credit that does not expire, under terms that allow commercial work; it generates no images, video or music, and holds no published DPA or certification. Add US$ 5 on NotHoly pricing, compare the rates on pricing and run your own workload.