Getting it into your agent
One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.
npx skills add 0xatd/cheaptokens-skills --skill venice-api-overviewgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/0xatd/cheaptokens-skillsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/0xatd/cheaptokens-skills/venice-api-overview)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/0xatd/cheaptokens-skills/venice-api-overview"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/0xatd/cheaptokens-skills/venice-api-overview/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/0xatd/cheaptokens-skills/venice-api-overview"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/0xatd/cheaptokens-skills/venice-api-overview.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>What it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00046 | $0.02099 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00023 | $0.01050 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00009 | $0.00420 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00210 |
Grade A, and why
venice-api-overview scanned grade A with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 10d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Makes network callslowCapability
Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.
curl https://api.venice.ai/api/v1/models \ This is a copy
86% identical to venice-api-overview — 12 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 141 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
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
The OpenAPI spec is distributed at outerface/swagger.yaml (current version 20260420.235001).
Authentication (pick one per request)
| Scheme | Header | Best for |
|---|---|---|
BearerAuth |
Authorization: Bearer <VENICE_API_KEY> |
Server-side apps, dashboards, usage analytics, bundled credits |
siwx (x402) |
X-Sign-In-With-X: <base64 SIWE JSON> |
No account, pay-as-you-go with USDC on Base, serverless / agents |
Every inference endpoint accepts either — see venice-auth.
# Bearer
curl https://api.venice.ai/api/v1/models \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $VENICE_API_KEY"
# x402 / SIWE (one-liner via the SDK)
import { VeniceClient } from 'venice-x402-client'
const v = new VeniceClient(process.env.WALLET_KEY)
await v.models.list()
Endpoint map
Inference
| Category | Endpoints | Skill |
|---|---|---|
| Chat | POST /chat/completions |
venice-chat |
| Responses (Alpha) | POST /responses |
venice-responses |
| Embeddings | POST /embeddings |
venice-embeddings |
| Image gen | POST /image/generate, POST /images/generations, GET /image/styles |
venice-image-generate |
| Image edit | POST /image/edit, POST /image/multi-edit, POST /image/upscale, POST /image/background-remove |
venice-image-edit |
| TTS | POST /audio/speech |
venice-audio-speech |
| STT | POST /audio/transcriptions |
venice-audio-transcription |
| Music (async) | POST /audio/quote, /audio/queue, /audio/retrieve, /audio/complete |
venice-audio-music |
| Video (async) | POST /video/quote, /video/queue, /video/retrieve, /video/complete, /video/transcriptions |
venice-video |
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 10d ago First seen · 141 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A e5c442fc69f2
venice-api-overview is a skill published in the GitHub repository 0xatd/cheaptokens-skills (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 2,099 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). It is 86% identical to venice-api-overview, differing in 12 lines, and is treated as a copy.
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