The best uncensored AI models in 2026, ranked

Every model below is genuinely uncensored — trained without the refusal layer, not jailbroken — and you can chat with all of them on OpenRogue.

  1. Dolphin Mistral 24B Venice Edition (Cognitive Computations × Venice.ai, 24B) — The most uncensored daily driver — and it's free. Dolphin Mistral 24B Venice Edition is what the Dolphin project has always been about, taken to its logical end: a capable mid-size model with the corporate guardrails stripped out at training time, not bolted on after. Built on Mistral Small 24B by Cognitive Computations with Venice.ai, it answers direct questions directly — health, legal gray areas, security research, dark fiction — without the apology paragraph first.
  2. Magnum v4 72B (Anthracite, 72B) — Claude-quality prose with the brakes cut. Magnum v4 is Anthracite's flagship: a 72B fine-tune of Qwen 2.5 trained with one explicit goal — replicate the prose quality of the frontier Claude models, minus the refusals. The result is a model that writes with rhythm and restraint instead of the over-adjectived mush most open models produce, and that commits to a scene instead of fading to black.
  3. Hermes 4 70B (Nous Research, 70B) — Uncensored with an actual reasoning gear. Hermes 4 is Nous Research's answer to a real gap: models that can reason hard without inheriting the refusal reflexes that usually come bundled with reasoning training. Built on Llama 3.1 70B, it supports deliberate step-by-step thinking when you want depth and direct answers when you don't — and its alignment philosophy is explicitly neutral: the user steers, the model follows.
  4. WizardLM-2 8x22B (Microsoft (community-preserved), 141B MoE) — The model Microsoft released, then tried to unrelease. WizardLM-2 8x22B has the best origin story in open AI: Microsoft's WizardLM team published it in April 2024, the weights spread within hours, and then the release vanished — officially for missing a 'toxicity review.' The community kept the weights. What survived is a 141B-parameter Mixtral-based mixture-of-experts that punched at GPT-4-class benchmarks on complex instruction following.
  5. Hermes 3 405B (Nous Research, 405B) — Frontier scale. Zero leash. Hermes 3 405B is the largest genuinely uncensored model you can use without owning a datacenter: Nous Research's full fine-tune of Llama 3.1 405B, trained on their neutral-alignment recipe. It has the depth you expect at frontier scale — nuance, world-knowledge, long coherent arguments — without the personality of a compliance officer.
  6. Euryale 70B (L3.3) (Sao10K, 70B) — The balanced uncensored daily — beloved for a reason. Euryale is what happens when a fine-tuner with taste iterates in public for a year: Sao10K's Llama 3.3 70B tune is one of the most consistently recommended roleplay and creative-writing models in the open community, because it balances the two things that usually trade off — expressiveness and brains.
  7. Hermes 3 70B (Nous Research, 70B) — The 405B's personality at daily-driver speed. Hermes 3 70B is the pragmatic pick in the Hermes family: the same neutral-alignment training and amorphous, steerable persona as its 405B sibling, at a size that answers fast enough for everyday conversation. Nous built the Hermes line around a simple idea — the model should become what the user needs, not what a policy team imagined.
  8. Rocinante 12B (TheDrummer, 12B) — Small, fast, and surprisingly adventurous. Rocinante is TheDrummer's Mistral Nemo 12B tune and the open community's favorite small storyteller — a model that writes with far more flair and willingness than its parameter count suggests. It became the default recommendation for 'fun, fast, uncensored' precisely because it doesn't take itself seriously.
  9. UnslopNemo 12B (TheDrummer, 12B) — The anti-slop model. Death to 'shivers down your spine.' Every heavy AI user knows the slop: 'shivers down her spine,' 'a testament to,' 'barely above a whisper,' the same recycled phrases that instantly mark text as machine-written. UnslopNemo is TheDrummer's direct attack on the problem — a Mistral Nemo 12B tune trained against those patterns, built from his 'Unslop' dataset work.
  10. Lunaris 8B (L3) (Sao10K, 8B) — Tiny, blunt, and faster than your typing. Lunaris is Sao10K's Llama 3 8B tune — a generalist merge built for creative writing and roleplay at the smallest practical size. There's no pretense here: it won't out-think a 70B. What it does is answer instantly, bluntly, and without filters, which is exactly what a lot of conversations actually need.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best uncensored AI in 2026?

For most people: Dolphin Mistral 24B Venice Edition — genuinely uncensored, fast, and free to chat with. For maximum capability, Hermes 3 405B is the largest neutrally-aligned model you can use online; for creative writing, Magnum v4 72B leads.

Are uncensored AI models legal?

Yes. Uncensored models are ordinary open-weights software without refusal training. You remain responsible for how you use any tool; the difference is the AI treats you like an adult instead of refusing legal questions.

Can I use an uncensored AI for free?

Yes — OpenRogue's free tier gives you 20 messages a day with Dolphin Mistral 24B Venice Edition, no credit card required.

What's the difference between 'uncensored' and 'jailbroken' AI?

A jailbreak tricks a filtered model into ignoring its rules — unreliable and against most platforms' terms. An uncensored model was trained without the refusal layer in the first place, so it simply answers.

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