Uncensored AI, and what the word is actually doing

Uncensored AI is an AI system that answers without the refusal behaviour most commercial assistants apply. The term covers two separate things that often get mixed up: a model whose refusal training was removed or never added, and a service that runs models without adding a moderation layer of its own on top. Neither meaning removes the legal limits, and one line holds on every route, every model and every setting: material involving minors is refused, with no exception.

We are Locally Uncensored, an open source desktop studio under AGPL-3.0 that runs models on your own machine, plus a hosted catalog at LU Labs for the people whose machine cannot hold them. Selling neither route over the other is the only reason this page can describe both accurately.

What uncensored AI actually means

The first mechanism is the model itself. An instruction tuned model learns a refusal behaviour during safety training, and that behaviour lives in the weights. Two families of model skip it. Abliterated models take an existing open weight model and project the refusal direction out of the residual stream by orthogonalisation, a technique from Arditi et al. in 2024. It is a permanent edit rather than a prompt trick, it leaves the underlying knowledge alone, and our abliterated models guide puts the quality cost at 1 to 3 percent degradation against the original. Community fine tunes take another path and simply train on corpora without refusal data. Euryale 70B, Lunaris 8B and MythoMax 13B are the ones people still ask for, mostly for character work and long form fiction. The abliterated models guide has the download list and the VRAM each one needs.

The second mechanism is the service. A hosted product can put a moderation layer in front of any model, inspecting the request before it reaches the weights and the answer before it reaches you. That layer is what jailbreak prompts argue with, which is also why a jailbreak stops working the week the vendor ships a new system prompt. Remove the layer and there is nothing left to argue with, but also nothing left to promise: what you get back is whatever the model was trained to give. On our hosted text lane we add no moderation layer to the 47 chat models, and rather than leave that as a slogan we measured it. On 2026-09-10 every hosted chat model was asked the same explicit adult fiction request, and 24 of the 46 models measured answered in full. Only those carry the No refusals mark in the picker, and a model added after the run carries no mark until it has been measured. The method is written out on the cloud overview.

Text and pictures also need different vocabulary, which is where most marketing on this topic goes wrong. Text is a single stream from one set of weights, so removing a layer leaves a clean description of what is happening. Image and video generation runs through a pipeline with prompt handling, a checkpoint, sometimes a LoRA, and an account level policy that ships on Standard and refuses hardcore prompts until you move it yourself. We describe hosted media as a setting you control, and we do not borrow the text wording for it. What no filter means online takes that distinction apart at length.

Three ways to use uncensored AI today

There are three, and your hardware plus the privacy the work needs decides which.

The local route is the honest privacy answer and the only one that costs nothing to run. You install open weights, the app talks to them over localhost, and no prompt reaches anybody's server. The price is hardware: an 8 GB card runs Llama 3.1 8B abliterated at Q4_K_M, 12 GB gets you Qwen 3.6 14B abliterated at 9 GB, and image or video generation wants an NVIDIA card with CUDA or an AMD card with ROCm on Linux. Chat will run on a CPU, just slowly. How to run uncensored AI locally is the walkthrough, with a German version at unzensierte KI lokal.

The browser route exists because most people asking this question are on a laptop with integrated graphics or on a phone. It gives you 47 chat models with no moderation layer from us, seven image models and fourteen image-to-video models on one credit balance, with nothing to install. What it cannot give you is privacy in the strict sense, because a hosted request leaves your machine and no phrasing fixes that. We do not train on user data and never sell it, accounts and billing sit in the EU, and cloud renders are held for seven days and then removed, but the render still happens on a card that is not yours. Uncensored AI chat online covers that lane in detail.

The API route is the same hosted catalog behind an OpenAI compatible endpoint, for people who would rather drive it from SillyTavern, a script or their own app. The base URL is https://lu-labs.ai/api/inference/v1 in the chat completions shape, keys begin with lu_, you can hold up to five, and a key spends plan credits without being able to read or change the account. Chat is limited to 60 requests a minute per account. The API page has the setup.

Uncensored AI chat

Chat is where the phrase means something precise. The hosted picker holds 47 models, every plan and every pack reaches all of them, and we add no moderation layer to any. Rates run from 0.004 credits per output token on Llama 3.1 8B Turbo up to 1.425 on Kimi K3, with DeepSeek V3.2 at 0.038 as the everyday default, and tool calls work on all of them through a prompt transport. Price is no guide to the mark: neither the lowest rate on the list nor the highest carries it. The full table is on the chat page, and the local equivalent with no account is uncensored AI chat on your own machine.

Uncensored AI image generation

Seven hosted image models run without a built-in content restriction, and all seven render adult work once your account's content policy setting has been moved off its default. Three carry Spicy in the name and four do not, so the name is no guide. Chroma Spicy and Prefect Pony XL Spicy cost 1,500 credits per image, Neta Lumina (anime) Spicy, Z-Image Base and Nucleus cost 1,000, JibMix Qwen 2,000 and Wan 2.2 Realism 2,500. A 15 EUR pack of 450,000 credits covers up to 450 images at the 1,000 credit rate or up to 180 at 2,500, and chat, images and video all draw on the same balance.

The setting lives in Settings, General, Content policy. Strict is the tightest, Standard is the default and refuses hardcore prompts, and the third keeps only the legal limits printed underneath it. The line above the options says it applies to images and video rendered in the cloud, that text is unaffected, and that nothing on your own machine is touched. Per plan ceilings and the exact wording are on the image generator page and in the Cloud chapter.

Uncensored AI video

Fourteen hosted video endpoints run without a built-in content restriction, and every one is image-to-video. You supply a still, the model animates it, and the result is five seconds long. There is no text-to-video path among them, so with no picture you make one first, and that costs credits on top of the clip. Prices per clip run from 10,000 credits on LTX 2.3 Spicy and OpenVideo up to 90,000 on Seedance 2.5 Spicy, with Wan 2.2 Spicy and OpenVideo + Style LoRA at 15,000 in between. Wan 3.0 Spicy and Wan 3.0 Prime Spicy also accept a closing frame. Wan 2.2 Spicy Extend lengthens a clip you already rendered for 15,000 credits a run, which makes it a tool rather than a fifteenth model. The same content policy setting governs all of it. Full table and plan ceilings on the video generator page.

What stays blocked everywhere

Anybody selling uncensored AI as "anything goes" is either careless or lying. Four things do not move.

• Material involving minors is refused on every request, on every model, in every lane, at every setting. There is no exception, no configuration and no argument that changes this, and attempts are reported.
• A photograph of a real, identifiable person may only be used with that person's consent. We cannot verify consent for you, so that responsibility sits with you, and animating such a face is no different.
• The LU Labs Terms of Service apply to everything rendered on the hosted side, on top of both lines above.
• Local weights have no policy setting, which moves responsibility rather than removing it. Deepfakes and harassment are still illegal on your own GPU.

What removing a moderation layer buys is a model that will discuss violence in fiction, answer a security research question without a lecture and write adult prose without moralising. That is a narrower claim than the market usually makes, and it is the one we will defend.

Uncensored AI tools compared

Only facts we read ourselves, with the date. Numbers move, so check the source before buying anything.

The table has no winner column on purpose. It shows a field split into browser products, inference hosts and local software, where almost nobody sits in more than one box. The longer side by side is at Venice compared, and every LU number is broken out on pricing.

Uncensored AI on Mac, phone and Linux

On Windows and Linux you can have the whole thing locally. Install the desktop app, pull an abliterated model, and chat, images and video run on your own card with nothing leaving the machine.

On a Mac there is no desktop build of our app. Apple Silicon does run local chat models well through other tooling with Metal acceleration, but for our product the route on a Mac is the hosted studio in a browser. On a phone it is the same story with less nuance, and that gap is a large part of why the hosted layer exists at all. A Windows or Linux machine that is simply too weak lands in the same place.

You can also mix the two. On Windows or Linux, install the app and flip the Cloud switch next to the model picker, and local and hosted models share one interface and one account.

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FAQ

Is uncensored AI legal?

Running open weight models on your own computer is legal, and the abliterated builds people download are derived works of openly licensed models that inherit the parent licence. A hosted service is legal too, under that service's terms. What you do with the output is where the law bites, and two limits hold on every route: material involving minors is refused everywhere with no exception, and a photograph of a real, identifiable person may not be used without that person's consent.

Is uncensored AI free?

The local route is. Our desktop app is AGPL-3.0, version 3.0.2, Windows and Linux, and the model weights on Hugging Face cost nothing either, so the price is your own hardware and electricity. The hosted route is paid: credit packs start at 15 EUR for 450,000 credits with no subscription, and the Hosted plan is 19 EUR a month for 900,000 credits. We do not run a free hosted tier.

Is ChatGPT uncensored?

No. It has refusal training in the model and a moderation layer in the product, which is why jailbreak prompts exist and why they stop working after each update. A jailbreak argues with a filter that is still running. An uncensored setup removes the argument by removing the filter, either by running weights without refusal training on your own machine or by using a service that adds no moderation layer on text.

What is an abliterated model?

An abliterated model is an existing open weight model whose refusal direction in the residual stream has been projected out by orthogonalisation, following the 2024 paper by Arditi et al. It is a permanent edit to the weights rather than a prompt trick, the capabilities of the base model are unchanged, and the quality cost is 1 to 3 percent degradation relative to the original. Llama 3.1 8B abliterated at Q5_K_M is 5.7 GB and the usual starting point.

Does uncensored AI make NSFW images?

On our hosted side, yes, after you move your account's content policy setting off its default. Seven hosted image models run without a built-in content restriction, priced between 1,000 and 2,500 credits per image, and fourteen image-to-video models render five second clips from a still you supply, from 10,000 credits per clip. The default setting is Standard and it refuses hardcore prompts until you change it. Locally, an SDXL or Pony checkpoint on your own GPU has no such setting at all.

Is uncensored AI private?

Only the local route is private in the strict sense: the app runs on localhost, the weights sit on your disk and no prompt leaves the machine. A hosted request leaves your machine by definition, and no wording changes that. On our hosted side we do not train on user data and never sell it, accounts and billing are in the EU, and cloud renders are held for seven days and then removed. If that is not good enough for your work, use the free local app.

Which is the best uncensored AI?

It depends on your hardware. With a 12 GB card or better, a local abliterated build gives you total privacy and no running cost, and Qwen 3.6 14B abliterated at Q4_K_M is 9 GB. Without a usable GPU, a browser service is the only option, and the question becomes which models it carries and what it charges. We publish a measurement instead of a ranking: on 2026-09-10 every hosted chat model was asked the same explicit adult fiction request and 24 of the 46 models measured answered in full. Our own attempt at a broader list is best uncensored AI models 2026.

Can I run uncensored AI without a GPU?

For chat, yes, slowly. Small models run on CPU and Apple Silicon gets GPU acceleration through Metal. For image and video generation locally you need an NVIDIA card with CUDA, or an AMD card with ROCm on Linux. If you have neither, the hosted studio in a browser is the practical route, and it works on a Mac and on a phone.

What does no filter mean?

Used precisely, it means no moderation layer sits between your message and the model, so the model answers the way it was trained. That is what we claim for hosted text on all 47 chat models. It is not a promise that every model says everything: a fine tune trained to decline still declines, so the choice of model is the real control. We do not use the phrase for hosted image and video, where output depends on your account's content policy setting.

What is always blocked?

Material involving minors, on every model, every lane and every setting, with no exception. Photographs of real, identifiable people used without that person's consent, the same way. Both are refused and reported. The LU Labs Terms of Service apply on top of those two lines, and no content policy setting moves either of them.

Where to go next

• How to run uncensored AI locally, the full install, and the German version.
• The abliterated models guide, with a download pick for each VRAM size.
• Chat online, image generation, video generation and the API.
• The cloud overview, the Cloud handbook chapter and pricing.
• Venice compared, with the numbers we verified and the dates we read them.
• What no filter means online and uncensored AI chat on your own machine.