Venice AI

Venice AI provides privacy-focused inference: open models run with no logging, plus anonymized proxy access to Claude, GPT, Gemini, and Grok. All endpoints are OpenAI-compatible (/v1).

Privacy modes

Getting started

openclaw plugins install @openclaw/venice-provider

openclaw onboard --auth-choice venice-api-key

export VENICE_API_KEY="vapi_xxxxxxxxxxxx"

openclaw onboard --non-interactive \  --auth-choice venice-api-key \  --venice-api-key "vapi_xxxxxxxxxxxx"

openclaw agent --model venice/kimi-k2-5 --message "Hello, are you working?"

Model selection

• Default: venice/kimi-k2-5 (private, reasoning, vision).
• Strongest anonymized option: venice/claude-opus-4-6.

openclaw models set venice/kimi-k2-5openclaw models list --all --provider venice

You can also run openclaw configure and pick Model/auth provider > Venice AI.

Built-in catalog (38 models)

Grok-backed Venice models (grok-41-fast and similar) get the same tool-schema compat patch as the native xAI provider, since they share the same upstream tool-call format.

Model discovery

The bundled catalog above is a manifest-backed seed list. At runtime OpenClaw refreshes it from the Venice /models API and falls back to the seed list if the API is unreachable. The /models endpoint is public (no auth needed for listing), but inference requires a valid API key.

DeepSeek V4 replay behavior

If Venice exposes DeepSeek V4 models such as deepseek-v4-pro or deepseek-v4-flash, OpenClaw fills the required reasoning_content replay field on assistant messages when Venice omits it, and strips thinking/ reasoning/reasoning_effort from the request payload (Venice rejects DeepSeek's native thinking control on these models). This replay fix is separate from the native DeepSeek provider's own thinking controls.

Streaming and tool support

Pricing

Venice uses a credit-based system. Anonymized models cost roughly the same as direct API pricing plus a small Venice fee. See venice.ai/pricing for current rates.

Usage examples

# Default private modelopenclaw agent --model venice/kimi-k2-5 --message "Quick health check" # Claude Opus via Venice (anonymized)openclaw agent --model venice/claude-opus-4-6 --message "Summarize this task" # Uncensored modelopenclaw agent --model venice/venice-uncensored --message "Draft options" # Vision model with imageopenclaw agent --model venice/qwen3-vl-235b-a22b --message "Review attached image" # Coding modelopenclaw agent --model venice/qwen3-coder-480b-a35b-instruct --message "Refactor this function"

Troubleshooting

echo $VENICE_API_KEYopenclaw models list | grep venice

Advanced configuration

{  env: { VENICE_API_KEY: "vapi_..." },  agents: { defaults: { model: { primary: "venice/kimi-k2-5" } } },  models: {    mode: "merge",    providers: {      venice: {        baseUrl: "https://api.venice.ai/api/v1",        apiKey: "${VENICE_API_KEY}",        api: "openai-completions",        models: [          {            id: "kimi-k2-5",            name: "Kimi K2.5",            reasoning: true,            input: ["text", "image"],            cost: { input: 0, output: 0, cacheRead: 0, cacheWrite: 0 },            contextWindow: 256000,            maxTokens: 65536,          },        ],      },    },  },}

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