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# Venice API > Venice is a privacy-first, uncensored AI API platform offering text generation, image generation, audio synthesis, video generation, music, and embeddings with zero data retention and OpenAI SDK compatibility. Venice provides permissionless access to AI models with no content filtering, making it ideal for developers building applications that require uncensored outputs, privacy guarantees, and full control over AI interactions. The API is fully compatible with OpenAI's SDK—just change the base URL to `https://api.venice.ai/api/v1`. Venice offers four tiers of privacy: **Anonymized** (third-party models with identifying metadata stripped), **Private** (zero data retention, self-hosted open-source models), **TEE** (models running inside hardware-secured enclaves—Venice cannot access the computation), and **E2EE** (end-to-end encrypted models where prompts are encrypted client-side before being sent, and only the TEE can decrypt them). ## Getting Started - [Quick Start Guide](https://docs.venice.ai/overview/getting-started): Get your API key and make your first request in minutes - [API Key Generation](https://docs.venice.ai/overview/guides/generating-api-key): Step-by-step guide to creating API keys - [About Venice](https://docs.venice.ai/overview/about-venice): Overview of Venice's capabilities and OpenAI compatibility ## API Reference ### Text & Chat - [API Specification](https://docs.venice.ai/api-reference/api-spec): Complete API specification with Venice-specific parameters - [Chat Completions](https://docs.venice.ai/api-reference/endpoint/chat/completions): Text generation endpoint with streaming, vision, audio input, video input, and tool calling - [Model Feature Suffixes](https://docs.venice.ai/api-reference/endpoint/chat/model_feature_suffix): Enable features via model name suffixes (e.g., `model-name:web` for web search) ### Image - [Image Generation](https://docs.venice.ai/api-reference/endpoint/image/generate): Create images fro