veniceai

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Authenticate to the Venice API with a Bearer API key or with an x402 / SIWX wallet (EVM on Base or Ed25519 on Solana). Covers the SIGN-IN-WITH-X header format, the SIWE and Solana message fields, TTL and nonce rules, the venice-x402-client SDK, and how to choose between the two modes.

Call POST /chat/completions on Venice. Covers the OpenAI-compatible request shape, Venice-only venice_parameters (web search, E2EE, characters, thinking control, X search), multimodal inputs (images/audio/video), tool calls, reasoning controls, streaming, prompt caching, structured output, and model feature suffixes.

Manage Venice x402 wallet credits. Covers POST /x402/top-up (payment discovery + signed USDC settlement), GET /x402/balance/{walletAddress}, GET /x402/transactions/{walletAddress}, USDC on Base (chain 8453) and Solana mainnet, the PAYMENT-SIGNATURE / SIGN-IN-WITH-X header names, minimum $5 top-up, transaction types TOP_UP/CHARGE/REFUND, and the x402 v2 PAYMENT-REQUIRED response shape returned by all inference endpoints.

Generate and transcribe videos via Venice. Covers the async /video/quote + /video/queue + /video/retrieve + /video/complete loop, text-to-video, image-to-video, video-to-video (upscale), audio input, reference images, reference video and reference audio (R2V), scene and element support, plus /video/transcriptions for YouTube URLs.

Handle Venice API errors correctly. Covers the StandardError / DetailedError / ContentViolationError / X402InferencePaymentRequired body shapes, every meaningful status code (400, 401, 402, 403, 415, 422, 429, 500, 503, 504), the 402 PAYMENT-REQUIRED header used by x402 inference, 422 content-policy suggested_prompt retry pattern, 429 rate-limit headers, and an exponential-backoff retry strategy with idempotency.

Discover Venice models, their capabilities, constraints, and pricing. Covers GET /models (with ?type filter), /models/traits, /models/compatibility_mapping, the ModelResponse schema (capabilities, constraints, pricing per type), and how to use this to pick the right model programmatically.

Venice billing and usage analytics - GET /billing/balance, GET /billing/usage-history (keyset-paginated per-request ledger, JSON or CSV), GET /billing/usage (deprecated predecessor), and GET /billing/usage-analytics (aggregated by date/model/key). Covers the DIEM/USD/BUNDLED_CREDITS consumption priority and building dashboards. (Beta)

Manage Venice API keys. Covers GET/POST/PATCH/DELETE /api_keys, GET /api_keys/{id}, GET /api_keys/rate_limits, GET /api_keys/rate_limits/log, the two-step /api_keys/generate_web3_key wallet flow, INFERENCE vs ADMIN key types, and per-key consumption limits (USD / DIEM).

Use Venice's Alpha POST /responses endpoint - an OpenAI-compatible Responses API with typed output blocks (reasoning, message, function_call, web_search_call). Covers request shape, streaming, differences from /chat/completions, supported venice_parameters subset, and E2EE behavior.

Discover and use Venice public characters (persona-driven system prompts with a bound model). Covers GET /characters (search/filter/sort), /characters/{slug}, /characters/{slug}/reviews, the Character schema, and how to apply a character via venice_parameters.character_slug in chat completions.

Use Venice as a pay-per-call JSON-RPC proxy to 27 EVM, Starknet, and Solana networks. Covers GET /crypto/rpc/networks, POST /crypto/rpc/{network}, chain families and per-family method allowlists, the 1×/2×/4× method-tier pricing model, per-minute + 24-hour credit rate limits, idempotency keys for safe retries, single vs batch requests, and the unsupported stateful/WebSocket methods (eth_subscribe, eth_newFilter, *Subscribe, etc.).

Call POST /embeddings on Venice. Covers request shape (input, model, encoding_format, dimensions, user), OpenAI compatibility, response compression (gzip/br), and practical usage for retrieval, clustering, and RAG.

Transform existing images with Venice. Covers POST /image/edit (prompt-driven single-image edit), /image/multi-edit (compose multiple images), /image/upscale (2x or 4x upscale), and /image/background-remove. Accepts base64, file upload, or HTTPS URL.

Async music / audio-track generation via Venice. Covers the /audio/quote + /audio/queue + /audio/retrieve + /audio/complete lifecycle, lyrics vs instrumental, voice selection, duration, language, speed, model capability probing, and webhook-free polling.

High-level map of the Venice.ai API - base URL, authentication modes, endpoint categories, response headers, pricing model, error shape, and versioning. Load this first when starting any Venice integration.

Generate speech from text via POST /audio/speech, and clone a voice via POST /audio/voices. Covers TTS models (Kokoro, Qwen 3, xAI, Inworld, Chatterbox, Orpheus, ElevenLabs Turbo, MiniMax, Gemini Flash, Gradium), voices per family, cloned-voice handles, output formats (mp3/opus/aac/flac/wav/pcm), streaming, prompt/emotion styling, temperature/top_p, and language hints.

Route a prompt to the right Venice text model based on privacy tier (anonymized / private / TEE / E2EE), modality (vision / audio / video input), capability (reasoning, code, function calling, web search, large context, structured output), and cost. Use when a local agent (Claude Code, Hermes, NanoClaw, Codex CLI, etc.) needs to decide whether to handle a prompt locally or escalate to Venice, and if escalating, which Venice text model to call. Sits one level above venice-models (model discovery) and before venice-chat (the call surface).

Generate images with Venice. Covers POST /image/generate (Venice-native), POST /images/generations (OpenAI-compatible), GET /image/styles (style presets), request fields (prompt, dimensions, cfg_scale, seed, variants, style_preset, style_references, aspect_ratio, resolution, safe_mode, watermark), and response formats.

Transcribe audio files to text via POST /audio/transcriptions. Covers supported models (Parakeet, Whisper, Wizper, Scribe, xAI STT), supported formats (wav/flac/m4a/aac/mp4/mp3/ogg/webm), response formats (json/text), timestamps, and language hints. OpenAI-compatible multipart.