Guide

Use an uncensored model in Continue

Continue connects to unrestricted.sh through its OpenAI-compatible provider, and one command sets it up. You get Qwen3.8 27B Uncensored, a model for coding and chat with 262K context, at $1.00 per million input tokens.

Get an API key

Sign up, then add credit: API keys work after your first top-up of $5 or more. A first top-up of $10 or more adds $5 of bonus credit.

Connect Continue

sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://unrestricted.sh/setup.sh)"

Run it in a terminal and approve the connection in your browser. It creates an API key for this machine, asks which tools to set up, and writes the Continue settings to ~/.continue/config.yaml, leaving the rest of that file as it was. It needs curl and Node 18 or newer.

Already have a key? Set UNRESTRICTED_API_KEY to it first and the browser step is skipped. Put UNRESTRICTED_TOOLS=continue in front of the command to set up only Continue.

Or set it up by hand

This writes ~/.continue/config.yaml when you have none yet. Run it with UNRESTRICTED_API_KEY set and your shell fills in the key. If the file already exists, it is left alone: add the entry under models: to it yourself, with your key as apiKey.

mkdir -p ~/.continue
[ -e ~/.continue/config.yaml ] || cat > ~/.continue/config.yaml <<EOF
name: unrestricted.sh
version: 0.0.1
schema: v1
models:
  - name: unrestricted.sh Qwen3.8 27B Uncensored
    provider: openai
    apiBase: https://api.unrestricted.sh/v1
    apiKey: $UNRESTRICTED_API_KEY
    model: qwen3.8-27b-uncensored
    roles:
      - chat
      - edit
      - agent
EOF
chmod 600 ~/.continue/config.yaml

Pick the model

Reload Continue, then pick unrestricted.sh Qwen3.8 27B Uncensored from its model list.

If something goes wrong

401 invalid_api_key: Missing or revoked API key.
402 insufficient_funds: Out of funds.
403 api_locked: Add funds once to unlock API keys.
429 concurrent_request_limit: Too many requests running on this account.

Every error the API returns is listed in the API reference.

What a session costs

Cached input: when your tool resends the start of a conversation, those tokens cost $0.10 per million instead of $1.00. Cached-input pricing applies to the API and coding tools; messages in the web chat pay the full input price.

A coding-agent turn with 60,000 tokens in, 55,000 of them cached, 1,500 out costs $0.015. The pricing page has every price and more examples.

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