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.).
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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)