How to Use Open-Source AI Code Editor VOID in Private With Venice API

Venice.ai

2025-02-21

The benefits of integrating VOID's AI code editor with Venice

VOID is an open source IDE forked from Visual Studio Code. By integrating it with Venice's API instead of mainstream AI providers, you get several key advantages:

Complete privacy with no storage of your code or prompts
Uncensored responses without artificial restrictions
Free ongoing inference through VVV staking

This guide shows you how to connect VOID to Venice's API infrastructure for private, uncensored AI-powered coding.

VOID integration prerequisites

Before starting the integration, you'll need:

Venice API key obtained through VVV staking, topping up your account with USD, or upgrading Venice Pro (more restrictive rate limits apply to Pro). You can follow these instructions for obtaining your API key
VOID installed on your machine (download here)
Git for version control

Step-by-step VOID integration with Venice API

Go to the VOID website to download the beta version of VOID

Following installation, open the application
Click the gear icon on the top right

Grab your API key from Venice (follow instructions here)
Go to the API models endpoint list and click "try it" next to GET /models to see all available models through the API. We recommend using the default "coding" model as a starting place (qwen2.5-coder-32b).

Go back to VOID, and scroll down to the "OpenAI-Compatible" section and input the following:
1. Base URL: https://api.venice.ai/api/v1
2. API Key: [Use your Venice AI API Key]

Scroll down to the Models section and click "Add Model". Input the model name that you'd like to use. We will use "qwen2.5-coder-32b" as the example. Click the radio button to enable the model.

Open a folder or workspace, and select one of your files

Utilize the AI functionality by entering your prompt in the chat window on the right. Depending on your IDE configuration, you may need to copy and paste code snippets for the best response. You will see that we asked VOID to “Tell me about this code”, and it provided a response explaining the dockerfile selected.

Congratulations on integrating Venice API with VOID IDE!

Getting the most out of your VOID and Venice API integration

Venice's API integration with VOID provides developers with powerful code generation capabilities without code storing, prompt tracking or content restrictions. To learn more and get support:

Check the Venice API documentation
Review detailed model specifications in our model endpoints list
Join the Venice Discord for developer discussions and support

Venice's API access through VVV staking provides ongoing, private access to AI capabilities without per-request fees or data collection.

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