Short answer

An uncensored LLM is a language model modified to decline fewer requests than the model it came from. The word does not describe a technique: it covers fine-tunes on new data, abliteration (editing the weights), automated abliteration with tools like Heretic, and releases that do not say what was done. None of these removes the license of the base model or the user's legal responsibility.

Four ways a model becomes "uncensored"

8 in the catalogue

Abliteration

Weights edited to suppress a refusal direction in the activations. No training.

How it works

5 in the catalogue

Heretic (automated abliteration)

Abliteration with parameters searched automatically by the Heretic tool, which reports refusals and KL divergence.

How it works

1 in the catalogue

Fine-tune

Further training on new data to change behaviour.

How it works

4 in the catalogue

Not disclosed

The card says refusals were removed but does not say how.

How it works

The method changes what you should check. A fine-tune such as Dolphin is trained on new data, so it can change knowledge and style as well as refusals. An abliterated model keeps its weights except for the edited directions, so its knowledge should be close to the base, but its creator's own numbers often show that some refusals remain or that outputs drift. When the method is undisclosed, the only evidence is the creator's claim, and you have to test it on your own tasks.

All refusal-reduced variants

Showing 18 of 18 variants. Unknown values sort last.

ModelTypeParamsConfig contextLicense tagFormatsHosted API
dealignai GLM-5.3-Flash UNCENSORED FP8
dealignai/GLM-5.3-Flash-UNCENSORED-FP8
Undisclosed321B
18B active
Not statedMIT
  • FP8
None listed
Dolphin Mistral 24B Venice Edition
dphn/Dolphin-Mistral-24B-Venice-Edition
Fine-tuned24B128KApache 2.0
  • Safetensors
  • FP8
  • GGUF
Featherless, OpenRouter, Venice
Gemma 3 27B IT abliterated (mlabonne)
mlabonne/gemma-3-27b-it-abliterated
Abliterated27.4B128KGemma Terms of Use
  • Safetensors
  • GGUF
Featherless
Gemma 4 26B A4B heretic (coder3101)
coder3101/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-heretic
Heretic25.8B
3.8B active
Not statedApache 2.0
  • Safetensors
Featherless, Venice
Gemma 4 26B A4B ultra-uncensored heretic (llmfan46)
llmfan46/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-ultra-uncensored-heretic
Heretic25.8B
3.8B active
256KApache 2.0
  • Safetensors
  • GGUF
Featherless
Gemma4-26B-A4B-QAT Uncensored HauhauCS Balanced (GGUF)
HauhauCS/Gemma4-26B-A4B-QAT-Uncensored-HauhauCS-Balanced-MTP
Undisclosed25.2B
3.8B active
256KGemma Terms of Use
  • GGUF
None listed
GLM-4.7-Flash heretic (Olafangensan)
Olafangensan/GLM-4.7-Flash-heretic
Heretic29.9B
3B active
Not statedMIT
  • Safetensors
Venice
GLM-4.7-Flash Uncensored HauhauCS Balanced (GGUF)
HauhauCS/GLM-4.7-Flash-Uncensored-HauhauCS-Balanced
Undisclosed29.9B
3B active
198KMIT
  • GGUF
None listed
gpt-oss-20b heretic (p-e-w)
p-e-w/gpt-oss-20b-heretic
Heretic20.9B128KApache 2.0
  • Safetensors
  • GGUF
None listed
Huihui Gemma 4 26B A4B abliterated
huihui-ai/Huihui-gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-abliterated
Abliterated25.8B
3.8B active
256KApache 2.0
  • Safetensors
  • GGUF
None listed
Huihui Gemma 4 26B A4B QAT abliterated (GGUF)
huihui-ai/Huihui-gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-qat-q4_0-unquantized-abliterated-GGUF
Abliterated25.2B
3.8B active
256KApache 2.0
  • GGUF
None listed
Huihui GLM-4.7-Flash abliterated
huihui-ai/Huihui-GLM-4.7-Flash-abliterated
Abliterated31.2B
3B active
198KMIT
  • Safetensors
  • GGUF
  • MLX
None listed
Huihui GLM-5.3-Flash abliterated (GGUF)
huihui-ai/Huihui-GLM-5.3-Flash-abliterated-GGUF
Abliterated321B
18B active
1M (1,048,576)MIT
  • GGUF
None listed
Huihui Qwen3.8-27B abliterated
huihui-ai/Huihui-Qwen3.8-27B-abliterated
Abliterated27.8B256KApache 2.0
  • Safetensors
  • GGUF
Featherless
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct abliterated (mlabonne)
mlabonne/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-abliterated
Abliterated8.03B128KLlama 3.1 Community License
  • Safetensors
  • GGUF
Featherless
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct abliterated (huihui-ai)
huihui-ai/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct-abliterated
Abliterated70.6B128KLlama 3.3 Community License
  • Safetensors
  • GGUF
Featherless
Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507 heretic (p-e-w)
p-e-w/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507-heretic
Heretic4.02B256KApache 2.0
  • Safetensors
  • GGUF
Featherless
Qwen3.8-27B Uncensored HauhauCS Aggressive (GGUF)
HauhauCS/Qwen3.8-27B-Uncensored-HauhauCS-Aggressive-MTP-GGUF
Undisclosed27B256KApache 2.0
  • GGUF
None listed
Values from each model's Hugging Face card, config.json and API metadata. "Config context" is max_position_embeddings or GGUF context_length, not a provider limit.

What the label does not tell you

Capability

Reducing refusals does not add knowledge or skill. Some cards report a measurable drift from the base model's outputs.

Privacy

Privacy depends on where the model runs. A hosted uncensored model is as private as its provider's logging policy, no more.

Permission

The base model's license and acceptable use policy still apply. Read how the main licenses differ.