# Venice AI

Hacker Approved page: https://hackerapproved.com/p/venice-ai/

10 people recommended Venice AI in Hacker News comments and 3 criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026. It was recommended in 8 of 12 months, in 12 threads. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** People recommend Venice for private, uncensored AI inference with no-KYC signups and zero-data-retention terms. Critics doubt its anonymity when prompts reveal identity or it routes to big providers.

Summary written by Claude from 15 comments.

## Why people recommend it

- Private and anonymous inference (5 comments in the sample): "The platform supports no-KYC signups too, so if you care you can disguise your user too." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47784626)) "I do my inference (for personal stuff - not my employer) through Venice." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47963313)) "Perhaps look into venice for more private inference." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48438451))
- Uncensored models without preachiness (3 comments in the sample): "the only hosted solution I found that actually has uncensored models and isn't all weird about it" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46711303)) "OpenCode + DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Uncensored on Venice AI is truly incredible." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50274797)) "I think venice.ai hosts abliterated models" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49820729))

## What people warn about

- Anonymity claims don't fully hold (2 comments in the sample): "I would not trust any anonymization service that still connects to gemini/openai/claude" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47782177)) "Which is an absurd claim if your prompt has your company name in it." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48348324))

## Other LLM APIs people recommend

- [Mistral](https://hackerapproved.com/p/mistral-large-4/): 206 recommend, 81 mixed, 205 criticize
- [DeepSeek API](https://hackerapproved.com/p/deepseek-api/): 147 recommend, 17 mixed, 49 criticize
- [OpenAI API](https://hackerapproved.com/p/openai-models/): 115 recommend, 41 mixed, 260 criticize
- [Cerebras Inference](https://hackerapproved.com/p/cerebras/): 63 recommend, 33 mixed, 47 criticize

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://venice.ai/)

## The badge

A product earns the Hacker Approved badge when at least 10 people recommend it, recommenders outnumber critics at least 2 to 1 (mixed feelings count toward neither side), it was recommended in at least 4 of the 12 months and in at least 5 different threads, and no single thread supplies more than half of the people who recommend it. Health and money products are never badged.

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Venice AI", https://hackerapproved.com/p/venice-ai/ (10 recommend, 0 mixed, 3 criticize; Hacker News comments, November 2025 to October 2026).

Counts updated 2 Nov 2026, with data through October 31, 2026.