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Venice AI

Standalone network · Tier 1 · API Live

Seeded record — this provider has not yet been through the independent verification pass. Treat every claimed/unverified field below as unconfirmed.

Identity

CategoryStandalone network
Tier1
Record statusUnverified
First tracked2026-08-24
Last checked2026-08-24
Last changed2026-08-24
Websitehttps://venice.ai
AliasesAskVenice

Venice AI is a consumer-facing private and uncensored AI platform, positioned around zero-retention and privacy-first handling of user prompts, with a large self-reported user base. The provider roster notes Venice's editorial treatment as coverage-only within DeAI's broader decentralized-networks beat: several Bittensor-adjacent providers list Venice as an upstream model source (it sits above Morpheus's C-node in some provider chains), so this tracker records Venice on the same graded rubric as every other provider without framing it as a head-to-head competitor of any single row. No independent check has confirmed API compatibility, the model list, or the zero-retention claim; the latter, like all absence-claims, cannot be promoted to `verified` from a policy statement alone under this tracker's rules.

API

FieldValueGradeNote
OpenAI-compatibleUnverifiedRoster flags this as 'likely OpenAI-compatible'; not confirmed by a docs review or a probe yet.
EndpointUnverified
StatusliveClaimed
ModelsUnverifiedPrivate/uncensored open models claimed served; no enumeration performed.
AccessUnverified

Privacy

FieldValueGradeNote
MechanismZero-retention (claimed)ClaimedPrivacy-first positioning and zero-retention claimed; not independently attestable from a policy statement alone.
Attestation independently verifiablefalseUnverified
Zero-retentionclaimedClaimedAbsence-claims like zero-retention cannot be verified from a policy statement; would need cryptographic/attestation evidence.

Scale

FieldValueGradeNote
Tokens/dayClaimedRoster describes 'large self-reported volume' without a specific figure.
ARR estimateUnverified
Pricing publishedUnverified

On-chain

FieldValueGradeNote
TokenN/A
Self-dealing flagN/A

Change log

  • 2026-08-24record: seeded from provider roster v1.0 (Unverified) (source)

The change log is append-only: corrections are recorded as new entries, never rewrites. Full feed via /api/v1/changes.

Sources

  1. [roster] docs/decentralized-inference-provider-roster.md (2026-08-24)
  2. [website] https://venice.ai (2026-08-24)
  3. [x-account] https://x.com/AskVenice (2026-08-24)

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