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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, embeddings, and developer tools (web search, document parsing, blockchain RPC) 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 also offers developer tools including web search, web scraping, document parsing, and blockchain RPC—see the **Tools** section below. 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). **AI agents:** see [agents.md](https://docs.venice.ai/agents.md) for a token-optimized agent guide, [claude.md](https://docs.venice.ai/claude.md) for Claude-specific notes, and [skill.md](https://docs.venice.ai/skill.md) for an installable Agent Skill (`npx skills add docs.venice.ai`). Any docs page is available as raw Markdown by appending `.md` to its URL. ## 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/guides/getting-started/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](ht