Venice AI
Hacker ApprovedRanked 8 of 12 LLM inference APIs by recommenders
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.
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.
13 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 10
- criticize it
- 3
- approval share
- 77%
Recommended in 8 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it carries the badge
- 10 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 3.3 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 8 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Private and anonymous inference
“privacy platforms like Venice with ZDR legal contracts and multiple E2EE options for their open-weight models”
Comment from 15 Apr 2026 in “AI ruling prompts warnings from US lawyers: Your chats could be used against you” “The platform supports no-KYC signups too, so if you care you can disguise your user too.”
Comment from 15 Apr 2026 in “AI ruling prompts warnings from US lawyers: Your chats could be used against you” “I do my inference (for personal stuff - not my employer) through Venice.”
Comment from 30 Apr 2026 in “Mistral Medium 3.5” - Comment from 7 Jun 2026 in “Show HN: MimicScribe – transcriber with ~97% accurate on-device speaker IDing”
- Comment from 31 May 2026 in “OpenRouter raises $113M Series B”
- Comment from 15 Oct 2026 in “OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room”
Uncensored models without preachiness
“the only hosted solution I found that actually has uncensored models and isn't all weird about it”
Comment from 21 Jan 2026 in “Claude's New Constitution” “OpenCode + DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Uncensored on Venice AI is truly incredible.”
Comment from 28 Oct 2026 in “The Agent SDK” “I think venice.ai hosts abliterated models”
Comment from 23 Sep 2026 in “Heretic removes restrictions from language models” Open-weight models with privacy contracts
“privacy platforms like Venice with ZDR legal contracts and multiple E2EE options for their open-weight models”
Comment from 15 Apr 2026 in “AI ruling prompts warnings from US lawyers: Your chats could be used against you” “OpenCode + DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Uncensored on Venice AI is truly incredible.”
Comment from 28 Oct 2026 in “The Agent SDK”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Anonymity claims don't fully hold
“I would not trust any anonymization service that still connects to gemini/openai/claude”
Comment from 15 Apr 2026 in “AI ruling prompts warnings from US lawyers: Your chats could be used against you” “Which is an absurd claim if your prompt has your company name in it.”
Comment from 31 May 2026 in “OpenRouter raises $113M Series B”
Other LLM inference APIs people recommend
The four most recommended other LLM inference APIs, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cerebras Inference | 109 | 51 | 68% | 13 | — | Approved |
| Groq API | 58 | 23 | 72% | 12 | — | Approved |
| Tinfoil | 21 | 10 | 68% | 10 | — | Approved |
| Darkbloom | 19 | 39 | 33% | 1 | — | — |
| Venice AIThis page | 10 | 3 | 77% | 8 | — | Approved |
What people said
15 of the 16 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“the "Pro" plan only includes "Pro" models, not "Advanced"”
“OpenCode + DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Uncensored on Venice AI is truly incredible.”
“Private/anonymous AI inference as service.”
“I think venice.ai hosts abliterated models”
“Perhaps look into venice for more private inference.”
“Which is an absurd claim if your prompt has your company name in it.”
“they fully anonymize the user and never ban”
“I do my inference (for personal stuff - not my employer) through Venice.”
“The platform supports no-KYC signups too, so if you care you can disguise your user too.”
“I would not trust any anonymization service that still connects to gemini/openai/claude”
“privacy platforms like Venice with ZDR legal contracts and multiple E2EE options for their open-weight models”
“Plenty of other providers that offer much faster inference on GLM-5.1.”
“the only hosted solution I found that actually has uncensored models and isn't all weird about it”
“I'll use Anthropic and Venice until I notice less steering in my threads”
“I use a third party API aggregator/forwarder (VeniceAI) for this reason.”
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