Venice AI: Pricing, Free Plan & Privacy

Venice AI is a private AI app for chat, images and video. The free plan gives 10 text and 15 image prompts a day, and Pro is $18 a month. See the limits.

Venice is a browser and app-based AI platform that puts many models in one place, including open models such as GLM, Qwen and DeepSeek and anonymized access to models from Google, xAI and others. Its pitch is privacy: Venice says your prompts, replies and uploads are stored in your own browser, not on its servers. It says more than 4 million people use it. We checked the pricing page, the about page and the API pricing docs on October 25, 2026.

Is Venice AI free?

Yes, with daily limits. The free plan uses Venice’s base models and gives you 10 text prompts and 15 image prompts a day, plus API access that you pay for with credits. You can start chatting on venice.ai without much setup, and you only need an account to save more or upgrade.

Pro removes the text limit and raises images to 1,000 a day. Video, music and the top frontier models are paid with credits on every plan, so even Pro users spend credits on those.

Venice AI Pricing (2026)

Plan	Price (monthly billing)	What you get
Free	$0	Base models, 10 text and 15 image prompts a day, API with credits
Pro	$18/month	All Pro models, unlimited text, 1,000 images a day, 100 credits a month
Pro Plus	$68/month	Everything in Pro, 7,500 credits a month, 2-month credit rollover
Max	$200/month	Everything in Pro Plus, 22,500 credits a month, 3-month rollover

Credits are Venice’s currency for premium features, and 100 credits equal $1. Venice says leading video models such as Seedance 2.5, Wan 3.0 and Kling V3 cost under 80 credits for a clip of about 5 seconds. So Pro’s 100 monthly credits cover roughly one short video; if you plan to make video regularly, Pro Plus is the realistic tier.

Developers can use the same credits through the OpenAI-compatible Venice API, or pay as they go at published per-token rates. For example, GLM 5.3 Flash is $0.15 input and $0.50 output per 1M tokens, while Gemini 4 Argon, run in anonymized mode, is $2.50 input and $12.50 output.

How Venice AI privacy works

Venice explains its setup on its about page:

• Local storage: conversations and creations are encrypted and kept in your browser, not on Venice’s servers.
• Encrypted proxy: requests travel through Venice’s proxy to GPU providers and responses stream straight back.
• Split compute: GPUs come from several decentralized providers; one provider can see the text of one conversation, but not your history or identity.
• Private vs anonymized: open models run in private mode; big-name models such as Gemini are labelled anonymized, meaning Venice strips your identity but the model provider still processes the request.

That’s a different trade-off from ChatGPT or Gemini, which store your chats in your account. If privacy is the main reason you’re looking, also read our guide on whether ChatGPT is safe, or run a model yourself with one of the best local AI models.

Best use cases for Venice AI

• Private chats: questions about health, money or work you’d rather not store in a big tech account.
• Trying many models: switch between GLM, Kimi K3, DeepSeek, Grok and Qwen in one app.
• Images and edits: generation, upscaling, background removal and variants on Pro.
• Developers: an OpenAI-compatible API with private open models and credit billing.

Limitations

• Fewer content filters: Venice markets itself as uncensored and offers less-filtered models, so it isn’t a fit for children or workplaces that need strict filtering.
• History lives in your browser: clear it or switch devices and chats can disappear unless you use Pro’s encrypted backup.
• Credits for the good stuff: video, music and frontier models cost credits even on Pro.
• Anonymized isn’t private: requests to third-party models still reach those providers.

Venice AI alternatives

• Free AI chatbots: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and others compared on their free plans.
• Kimi K3.1 Pro: Moonshot’s new 1M-token model, with limited free use.
• Local AI models: the most private option, since nothing leaves your computer.

Venice AI is one of the easiest ways to use many AI models without storing your chats in a big tech account, and the free plan is enough to test it.

Pro at $18 a month suits heavy chat users; pick Pro Plus only if you’ll use its credits for video or the API.