Use Uncensored Models on OpenCode, Codex, and Claude Code

OpenUncensored is an OpenAI compatible API, so any tool that lets you set a custom OpenAI base URL can use its 82 uncensored models (60 text and 22 image). You need two things:

• Base URL:https://openuncensored.com/api/v1
• API key: anou- key fromopenuncensored.com/credits . No account, no sign up.

Pick a model id from the rankings or GET https://openuncensored.com/api/v1/models. For agent and coding work, start with deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017-uncensored: it is at the top of the rankings, fast, and cheap on long agent sessions because most of each request is served from the prompt cache.

Let your agent set it up #

The fastest way: paste this into Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, OpenCode or any agent:

Read https://openuncensored.com/agents.md and set me up with an OpenUncensored key.

The guide tells the agent how to start a purchase, hand you the payment link, and collect the key itself.

Cline, Kilo Code and Roo Code #

In the extension's settings, choose the OpenAI Compatible provider, then set:

• Base URL: https://openuncensored.com/api/v1
• API key: your ou- key
• Model ID: for example deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017-uncensored

Cursor #

In Cursor's model settings, enter your ou- key as the OpenAI API key, turn on the option to override the OpenAI base URL and set it to https://openuncensored.com/api/v1, then add the model id (for example deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017-uncensored) as a custom model.

Codex CLI #

Add a provider to ~/.codex/config.toml:

[model_providers.openuncensored]
name = "OpenUncensored"
base_url = "https://openuncensored.com/api/v1"
env_key = "OU_API_KEY"
wire_api = "responses"

[profiles.uncensored]
model_provider = "openuncensored"
model = "deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017-uncensored"

Then export OU_API_KEY=ou-... and run codex --profile uncensored. Codex speaks the OpenAI Responses API, which OpenUncensored serves at /api/v1/responses, so file edits, shell commands and multi-step tasks work as usual.

OpenCode #

Add OpenUncensored as a provider in opencode.json, either in your project or in ~/.config/opencode/opencode.json for every project:

{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "providers": {
    "openuncensored": {
      "name": "OpenUncensored",
      "env": ["OPENUNCENSORED_API_KEY"],
      "package": "@opencode/ai/providers/openai-compatible",
      "settings": { "baseURL": "https://openuncensored.com/api/v1" },
      "models": {
        "deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017-uncensored": { "name": "DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 Uncensored" }
      }
    }
  }
}

Add any other model id from the rankings to models the same way. Then export OPENUNCENSORED_API_KEY=ou-... and pick the model with /models in OpenCode, or run it directly:

opencode run -m openuncensored/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017-uncensored "Explain how SQL injection works"

OpenCode 2 runs a background service that only sees the environment variables it started with. If OpenCode says the key is missing after you exported it, add --standalone to start a private server that reads your current shell.

Claude Code #

Claude Code runs on Anthropic's models, but it can compare and call uncensored models through our MCP server:

claude mcp add --transport http open-uncensored https://openuncensored.com/mcp --header "Authorization: Bearer $OU_API_KEY"

That gives it tools to list models, read the rankings, check your balance and send a prompt to any model.

OpenAI SDK, LangChain, LiteLLM #

import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(base_url="https://openuncensored.com/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["OU_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017-uncensored",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain how SQL injection works."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)

LangChain's ChatOpenAI and LiteLLM's openai/ provider take the same base URL and key.

Good to know #

• Requests are billed per token at exactly the provider's price, with no markup; cached prompt tokens at the provider's cached price.
• If a model's providers are down, the API falls back to the next best ranked model built on the same original. The X-OU-Model response header says which model answered; send"routing": {"allow_fallbacks": false} to turn that off.
• Streaming, tools and the usual OpenAI parameters pass through.

Try any of them in a minute #

No account and no sign up. Buy a prepaid key at openuncensored.com/credits, or hand your agent openuncensored.com/agents.md and let it get one for you. Then:

curl https://openuncensored.com/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OU_API_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model": "deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017-uncensored", "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]}'

The full, always current table is on the rankings page.