The cheapest uncensored LLM API in 2026

Ranked by real per-token cost

Every model here has refusals relaxed or removed, sorted by input rate. Output is shown separately because a cheap input rate on an expensive output model is not actually cheap — a chat workload emits roughly as many output tokens as it reads.

What “uncensored” actually means

The term covers three genuinely different things, and providers rarely say which one they mean. The distinction decides whether a model will hold up under an adversarial prompt or fold the first time it is pushed.

What a month actually costs

The cheapest uncensored model, GLM-5.3 Uncensored, priced across four modelled traffic shapes. Token counts reflect common production patterns rather than benchmarks.

Put your own numbers into the token cost calculator for a figure based on your real traffic.

Cheapest refusal-free model per family

Not every workload suits DeepSeek. These are the cheapest uncensored or abliterated option in each family that has one, so the choice can follow the task rather than the price alone.

How to verify the claim

A price table cannot prove a model is actually refusal-free. The only test is behavioural, and it takes two requests.

curl https://uncensoredai.dev/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $UNCENSOREDAI_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "deepseek-v4-pro-0813",
    "messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "<your adversarial prompt>" }]
  }'

curl https://uncensoredai.dev/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $UNCENSOREDAI_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "deepseek-v4-pro-uncensored",
    "messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "<your adversarial prompt>" }]
  }'

If both answers are identical, the “uncensored” id is a prompt-level wrapper rather than a different artifact. If they differ, the weights are genuinely different.

Questions

What is the cheapest uncensored LLM API in 2026?

On this gateway it is GLM-5.3 Uncensored at $0.12 per 1M input tokens and $0.12 per 1M output tokens. It is an uncensored build, meaning the provider relaxed its safety refusals around otherwise standard weights. The full ranking, including the abliterated options, is in the table above.

Is uncensored the same as abliterated?

No, and the difference matters. Uncensored means the provider relaxed the safety refusals around otherwise standard weights. Abliterated means the refusal direction was removed from the weights themselves, so the change holds on every request regardless of how the model is deployed or prompted.

Is an uncensored model more expensive than a standard one?

Here, the cheapest refusal-free model is GLM-5.3 Uncensored at $0.12/1M input, while the cheapest model of any kind is DeepSeek V4.1 Flash at $0.04/1M — so in this catalog the refusal-free build does carry a small premium over the absolute cheapest tier. What it does not carry is a surcharge for being uncensored: GLM-5.3 Uncensored is priced on the same markup as every other model, and the gap reflects its position in the family rather than its refusal behaviour.

Do I need an account, email or KYC?

No. Generating a key creates the account, and that 16-digit key is both your login and your API credential. There is no email, name, phone number or identity verification.

How do I know a provider's uncensored claim is real?

Test it. Send the same adversarial prompt to the standard and the uncensored id and compare. A provider that only relaxes refusals at the API layer will still refuse under a sufficiently direct prompt; an abliterated model will not. The status page here probes every model with a real request, so you can see which ones answer at all.

Is there a free tier or trial credit?

No. There is no free credit and no trial balance. The key is free and instant to create, but requests need a positive balance funded by a crypto deposit.

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