# Venice privacy rating

AI chat and image generation service that proxies prompts to open and third-party models, keeping conversation history only in the browser.

## Summary

Venice scores 42 out of 100 (grade D) on the AI assistants criteria. It meets 4 of 12 criteria: no ads or data sales, TLS configuration, no training on your data and limited chat retention. It partly meets security headers and no account needed. It does not meet open source, no trackers or telemetry, independent audit, transparency report, tells users about requests and runs locally. It is based in the United States: Five Eyes member; subject to the US CLOUD Act. Automated tests: SSL Labs grade A+ and Mozilla HTTP Observatory grade B+.

- Website: https://venice.ai
- Jurisdiction: United States. Five Eyes member. Subject to the US CLOUD Act.
- Platforms: Web
- Home page trackers: Cloudflare Web Analytics (cookieless analytics), Google Tag Manager
- Category: [AI assistants](https://privacyratings.com/ai-assistants/)
- Grade: D (42/100)

## Criteria

| Criterion | Answer | Note | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Open source | No | Closed source. |  |
| No trackers or telemetry | No | The privacy policy lists Google Analytics and third-party analytics and advertising partners. | https://venice.ai/legal/privacy-policy |
| No ads or data sales | Yes | Funded by Pro subscriptions and API sales, with no ads in the service. | https://venice.ai/pricing |
| Independent audit | No | No independent audit is published. |  |
| Transparency report | No | No transparency report or government request policy is published. |  |
| Tells users about requests | No | No published policy on notifying users about data requests. |  |
| TLS configuration | Yes | Grade A+ | https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=venice.ai&hideResults=on |
| Security headers | Partial | Grade B+ (80/100+) | https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/observatory/analyze?host=venice.ai |
| Modern web standards | Not tested yet | Not tested yet. |  |
| No training on your data | Yes | In the default Private mode, prompts are not stored by Venice or its inference providers. Anonymous mode sends prompts to third-party providers that may keep them. | https://venice.ai/privacy |
| Runs locally | No | Hosted only. |  |
| Limited chat retention | Yes | Conversation history is stored only on the device, and prompts are relayed without being stored. | https://venice.ai/privacy |
| No account needed | Partial | Venice can be used without an account, with limits. | https://venice.ai/legal/privacy-policy |

Source: https://privacyratings.com/ai-assistants/venice/
Edit: https://github.com/privacyratings/privacyratings.com/edit/main/ratings/ai-assistants/venice.md