One OpenAI-compatible API for uncensored AI — chat & reasoning, image generation & editing, and video. Pay-as-you-go from your balance. Live at api.cleus.ai.
Requires a Cleus subscription to unlock balance-based usage.
Cleus Agent, Fast, and two Smartest reasoning models — streaming, OpenAI-compatible, uncensored.
Quality+ and Uncensored+ models for text-to-image and image-to-image editing from a URL, base64, or upload.
Quality+ text-to-video and image-to-video, delivered as a hosted MP4 via a simple async job.
Cleus Agent can search the web, generate & edit images, make video, and run code — all in one call.
cleus-agentAgentic model (text + image + video + tools)cleus-fastFast uncensored chatcleus-smartest-1Deep reasoningcleus-smartest-2Flagship reasoningcleus-image-qualityImage — Quality+ (generate & edit)cleus-image-uncensoredImage — Uncensored+ (generate & edit)cleus-video-qualityVideo — Quality+Point any OpenAI SDK at https://api.cleus.ai/v1 with your Cleus key. No rewrites.
curl https://api.cleus.ai/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $CLEUS_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "cleus-smartest-2",
"messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Explain quantum entanglement simply."}]
}'from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(api_key="clsk_live_...", base_url="https://api.cleus.ai/v1")
resp = client.chat.completions.create(
model="cleus-smartest-2",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello, Cleus!"}],
)
print(resp.choices[0].message.content)| Text (input + output) | $7.20 / 1M tokens |
| Web search | +$0.01 / search |
| Image generation | $0.03 / image |
| Image edit | $0.12 / edit |
| Video (480p / 720p) | $0.24 / $0.48 per clip |
Billed directly from your USD balance. No post-paid billing — you only ever spend what you add.
Create an API key in seconds and make your first call.