Introduction
Lately I've been using AI agents to run security audits on several of my own projects. Sometimes, agents like Codex or Claude refuse the request because they interpret it as potentially violent or harmful.
That's often the limitation of using heavily normie models. Even when the audit is for my own project and my own codebase, the model may still refuse to help. So I started looking for another option and found that uncensored models exist.
What is an uncensored model?
An uncensored model is an AI model with fewer built-in content restrictions. These models are usually fine-tuned to answer a wider range of prompts, including topics that moderated assistants may flag or refuse.
That can make them useful for legitimate work such as security research, penetration testing in an authorized environment, malware analysis, or reviewing potentially dangerous code in a private repository.
They still require careful use. With fewer guardrails, the responsibility for how the model is used falls more directly on the person running it. Here's an example comparison between a normie model and an uncensored one:
As you can see, the left side, GLM 5.3 uncensored, answered the prompt without refusing, while GPT Luna refused to answer.
The problem with most providers
So I went looking for a service that actually hosts these models. Plenty of them exist. The problem is almost always the pricing floor. A lot of providers require a minimum top-up before you can do anything, and that minimum tends to sit around $20 or even $50. For someone who just wants to test a few prompts and see whether an uncensored model handles their security work any better, that's a steep entry fee. You end up paying for access you may not even use. So here are the providers where you can start with $5 or less to try an uncensored model.
1. Experiential Labs
Experiential Labs is the one I've used the longest. When I tested it, the uncensored lineup was deepseek-v4.1-flash-uncensored, glm-5.3-uncensored, and mimo-v2.6-flash-uncensored. Pricing is per token, the minimum top-up is $5, and you get $5 in free credit when you sign up, so you can try it before spending anything. The downside: documentation is thin, so you're basically buying a ticket to find out.
2. Vikey.ai
vikey.ai is a local Indonesian provider, and the minimum top-up is 10,000 rupiah, roughly $0.55, which makes it by far the cheapest way to try this out. The uncensored pick right now is qwen3.6-plus-uncensored, and it held up fine on the security prompts.
3. Refuseless
Refuseless.com is the most focused of the three. The whole pitch is uncensored access, and the model selection reflects that: glm-5.3-abliterated, glm-5.3-flash-abliterated, and deepseek-v4.1-flash-abliterated. The minimum top-up is $5, but if you top up $10 you get $5 in free credit.
Conclusion
At the end of day, uncensored models solve a real problem. When I'm auditing my own code, the last thing I need is a model that refuses to help me do my job. It's worth remembering the tradeoff, though. Fewer guardrails means the model won't stop you from doing something careless, and the answers still need the same verification as anything else. Please use these tools responsibly: stick to your own projects, or get explicit permission before testing anything you don't own. My advice: pick one, use the free or cheap credit, test it against the prompts that kept getting refused, and judge the results yourself. That's exactly what I did.