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

Identity

Category	Standalone network
Tier	1
Record status	Unverified
First tracked	2026-08-24
Last checked	2026-10-12
Last changed	2026-10-05
Website	https://venice.ai
Aliases	AskVenice

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

Field	Value	Grade	Note
OpenAI-compatible	—	Unverified	Roster flags this as 'likely OpenAI-compatible'; not confirmed by a docs review or a probe yet.
Endpoint	—	Unverified	—
Status	live	Claimed	—
Models	—	Unverified	Private/uncensored open models claimed served; no enumeration performed.
Access	—	Unverified	—

Privacy

Field	Value	Grade	Note
Mechanism	Zero-retention (claimed)	Claimed	Privacy-first positioning and zero-retention claimed; not independently attestable from a policy statement alone.
Attestation independently verifiable	false	Unverified	—
Zero-retention	claimed	Claimed	Absence-claims like zero-retention cannot be verified from a policy statement; would need cryptographic/attestation evidence.

Scale

Field	Value	Grade	Note
Tokens/day	—	Claimed	Roster describes 'large self-reported volume' without a specific figure.
ARR estimate	—	Unverified	—
Pricing published	—	Unverified	—

On-chain

Field	Value	Grade	Note
Token	—	N/A	—
Self-dealing flag	—	N/A	—

Change log

2026-08-24 — record: seeded from provider roster v1.0 (Unverified) (source)
2026-09-14 — api.models: X claim (a_launch): DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is now available on Venice, fully private. (Claimed) (source)
2026-09-21 — api.models: X claim (a_launch): Jev by @typesafeai is now on the Venice API, in beta. It answers, it doesn't write. Send it your app's state and typed questions. Get back a typed answer your code can branch on: a probability, a chosen option, or a score on your rubric. No JSON to coax out of a chat model. (Claimed) (source)
2026-10-05 — api.models: X claim (a_launch): 267 updates in 30 days. Roughly nine a day, every day, all of September. Here's what shipped 🧵 Text (22): GPT-6 Astra, Astra Pro, Sol, Luna + GPT-6.1 Sol Claude Opus 5.5 + Fast, Sonnet 5.5, Fable 5.1 Kimi K3 + K2.6 GLM 5.3 + 5.3 Flash Qwen 3.8 Flash + 27B Gemini 3.8 Flash Grok 4.7 DeepSeek V4.1 Flash MiMo-V2.6-Flash Mercury 2.5 Aion 3.5 + Mini Video, audio + image (15): Video: Seedance 2.5 US + R2V, MiniMax H3 Max Turbo, Multi-Angle + R2V, Wan 3.0 Pro, Prime Pro + Reference variants Audio: ElevenLabs TTS v4 + v4 Turbo, Music v2 + v2.5 Image: GPT Image 2.5 Flare + Sunburst, Muse Image, ideogram v4.5 (Claimed) (source)

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

Sources

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