venice-api-overview
Venice API Overview
Venice.ai is an OpenAI-compatible inference platform for text, image, audio, video, and embeddings. One API — two ways to pay: a traditional API key (Pro account), or a wallet (x402, USDC on Base, no account required).
Use when
- You're writing code against
api.venice.aifor the first time. - You need to decide between API-key and x402/wallet authentication.
- You want a quick map of which endpoint to call for which task.
- You need to understand the common response headers (
X-Balance-Remaining,PAYMENT-REQUIRED, etc.).
Base URL
All endpoints live under:
https://api.venice.ai/api/v1
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venice-audio-transcription
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.
36venice-audio-music
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.
35venice-audio-speech
Generate speech from text via POST /audio/speech. Covers TTS models (Kokoro, Qwen 3, xAI, Inworld, Chatterbox, Orpheus, ElevenLabs Turbo, MiniMax, Gemini Flash), voices per family, output formats (mp3/opus/aac/flac/wav/pcm), streaming, prompt/emotion styling, temperature/top_p, and language hints.
33venice-video
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, scene and element support, plus /video/transcriptions for YouTube URLs.
32venice-image-generate
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, aspect_ratio, resolution, safe_mode, watermark), and response formats.
32venice-characters
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.
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