Venice API Overview

Venice.ai is an OpenAI-compatible inference platform for text, image, audio, video, and embeddings. One API — two ways to pay: a traditional API key (Pro account), or a wallet (x402, USDC on Base, no account required).

Use when

• You're writing code against api.venice.ai for the first time.
• You need to decide between API-key and x402/wallet authentication.
• You want a quick map of which endpoint to call for which task.
• You need to understand the common response headers (X-Balance-Remaining, PAYMENT-REQUIRED, etc.).

Base URL

All endpoints live under:

https://api.venice.ai/api/v1