Venice AI Review 2026: An Unfiltered AI Chatbot & NSFW Alternative to ChatGPT?

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Note: This post was updated in July 2026 to reflect verified features and changes that were introduced since the initial publication date.

I first reviewed Venice AI back in 2024, and at the time, I was a big fan, and I was one of the first ones to do it.

A lot has changed since then.

I’ve used Venice extensively, promoted it to my audience, watched the platform evolve, and eventually had my own personal experience dealing with the company behind it. My opinion today is much less positive.

So this updated Venice AI review is going to be different.

I’ll cover what Venice still does well, what has gotten worse, whether Venice AI is safe and trustworthy, what you’re actually getting for your money in 2026, and why I no longer recommend it the way I once did.

Is Venice AI Really a “Privacy” Powerhouse?

When I originally wrote this Venice AI review in 2024, privacy was one of the biggest reasons I recommended Venice to my audience.

My opinion has changed.

After my personal experience dealing with Venice’s management team, which I’ll explain later in this review, I no longer trust Venice as a company. That doesn’t automatically mean its technology isn’t private. Those are two different things. I don’t work for Venice, I haven’t inspected its servers, and I haven’t physically seen what happens to your prompts behind the curtain.

So I’m not going to tell you that Venice secretly stores your conversations or spies on you. I have no evidence of that. Maybe it’s true, and maybe it’s not.

What I can tell you is that I personally no longer trust the people running the company. When a product is asking you to trust it with potentially sensitive information, that’s a big deal.

There have also been some privacy improvements since I originally wrote this review.

Venice now divides its models into different privacy categories. Its regular Private mode relies on zero-data-retention policies and contractual commitments, per Venice. Venice itself describes this mode as “trust-based.” Pro subscribers can also use certain models through TEE, or Trusted Execution Environment, and E2EE, or end-to-end encryption.

E2EE is interesting because your prompt is encrypted on your device and is only decrypted inside a verified hardware environment. Venice says users can independently verify the attestation associated with the request.

The problem is that Venice’s explanation of how all of this works is filled with enough technical jargon to make a normal person’s brain start leaking out of its ears. Maybe that’s partially on me. I’m not a cryptographer. But if privacy is your biggest selling point, explaining it to normal people should probably be a priority.

Also, and this is a big point as of July 2026, I have not been able to find a single published independent third-party privacy audit of Venice’s entire privacy architecture. This remains one of the most-requested features by Venice’s audience, and they still haven’t done it, which I would consider suspicious.

So where does that leave me?

Venice appears to have built some legitimate privacy features, particularly E2EE. But when using its regular trust-based privacy modes, you are still placing some degree of trust in Venice, its leadership team, and its infrastructure partners.

And personally, I no longer do at all.

As for the many people who don’t care about privacy because they “have nothing to hide,” I had Venice write a little something for you so you can understand why you’re 100% wrong. Be sure to send this to anyone you know who thinks they have nothing to hide.

Is Venice AI Still a Good Unfiltered ChatGPT Alternative?

I loved to jailbreak ChatGPT. It was fun. It doesn’t work so well anymore, but the most fun part about it was the freedom of expression that an unfiltered experience brings. With the jailbreak, ChatGPT became an AI chatbot with no filters, letting you say what you want (within reason).

And although jailbreaking worked to give you that unfiltered AI chatting experience, it was far from perfect. OpenAI would slam you with red text after you asked it anything it didn’t like. Sometimes the jailbreak just wouldn’t work at all. 

And other times, you probably wondered whether any of those conversations would ever get stored indefinitely for “violating” OpenAI’s terms and conditions. Well, you’re probably right, although I have no proof.

Anyway, this section of my original review from 2024 was basically a Venice love letter.

Things have changed quite a bit.

Venice is still considerably less censored than ChatGPT for certain types of content. If you want an unfiltered AI chatbot with fewer restrictions, controversial conversations, adult content, politically incorrect humor, or other topics mainstream AI companies sometimes restrict, Venice remains fairly useful.

That is also why Venice still gets attention from people looking for an NSFW ChatGPT alternative or an unfiltered ChatGPT alternative.

Here’s a quick example…

ChatGPT

Venice AI

But it isn’t as uncensored as it once was.

I have been using Venice since 2024, and I’ve watched those boundaries gradually change. It still gives you more freedom than ChatGPT in many situations, but the original feeling has faded.

Ironically, “uncensored” remains one of the main reasons people use Venice, regardless of how much Venice itself wants that word attached to its brand.

If you are specifically looking for a no-filter AI experience, Venice still gets closer than many mainstream AI platforms. Just understand that “unfiltered” is relative now.

Venice AI Is Slow and Sluggish Now

There’s another issue.

Venice has been painfully slow for me lately.

I’ve had responses take an absurd amount of time, requests time out, and some of the better open-source models become frustrating to use.

This is particularly disappointing because Venice used to be updated constantly.

I used to see that little “reload Venice to get the latest version” notification on the bottom-right side of my screen multiple times per day (yes, I used it that much). Now I might see it every few days. 

That is obviously anecdotal. I don’t have access to Venice’s internal development schedule. But as someone who has used the platform heavily for roughly two years, the pace feels different.

The performance does too.

From the outside, it looks to me like a platform that hasn’t scaled properly with its increased demand.

Venice AI vs. ChatGPT in 2026

This comparison has changed dramatically since I originally wrote this Venice AI review.

Venice Pro currently costs $18 per month. ChatGPT Plus costs $20 per month.

So we are basically talking about the same price.

That creates a much harder argument for Venice.

For $20 per month, ChatGPT Plus gives you access to a massive ecosystem of tools for actual work. There’s advanced reasoning, Deep Research, image generation, file analysis, voice, projects, agents, Codex, and an increasingly ridiculous number of other things OpenAI keeps cramming into the platform.

ChatGPT has gone from “AI chatbot” to something closer to an AI operating system for getting real work done.

Venice simply does not compete with that feature-for-feature.

Venice does give you something ChatGPT doesn’t: a big selection of models from different companies.

That sounds incredible on paper.

But ask yourself something.

Do you actually need 30 AI models?

I use AI all day, every day, and most of the time I just want the best model for whatever I’m doing.

At the time of this writing, OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 family is extremely powerful, and GPT-5.6 Sol Pro is currently OpenAI’s highest-capability GPT-5.6 option for difficult work. For most ChatGPT Plus users, having access to excellent models plus all of ChatGPT’s other tools is more useful than staring at a giant model selector.

Venice does let you access models from companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI, Zhipu, Alibaba, and others.

Here’s the catch, though: Many premium and frontier models use Venice credits.

Venice Pro currently gives you 100 credits per month, which equals $1.00 in Venice’s credit system.

One dollar.

Once those are gone, premium usage can cost you additional money.

So don’t look at Venice Pro’s model list and assume your $18 subscription gives you unlimited access to every model you see. It doesn’t.

That’s an important distinction, because I can easily see someone signing up for Venice Pro, seeing GPT, Claude, Grok, premium image generators, video models, and everything else on the platform and assuming the buffet is included.

Some of it is, but some of it has a cash register sitting right next to it.

And the promo code I previously offered Run The Prompts readers is gone, so I no longer have a Venice discount to give you. Nobody does. The promos from everyone are over forever, as far as I know.

Is Venice AI Still Uncensored and NSFW-Friendly?

This is still one of Venice’s strongest arguments.

Venice remains a lot less restrictive than ChatGPT in many areas, which is why searches for things like Venice AI NSFW, unfiltered AI, and uncensored AI continue to be closely associated with the platform.

But after using it since 2024, I don’t think “uncensored” means what it did when Venice originally launched.

There are more boundaries now. Venice has gotten more prudish over time. Some models are considerably worse than others. Venice also has its own “Venice Uncensored” model specifically designed for less restricted conversations.

So yes, you can still use Venice for NSFW content and other topics that mainstream AI platforms may reject.

Just don’t expect the same Wild West experience as 2024 when I wrote about Venice when it was brand new.

The sheriff has arrived, and he’s not always happy.

Is Venice AI Safe and Private Enough for Your Sensitive Data?

My old recommendation was basically this: If you have sensitive information, then use Venice.

I wouldn’t make that blanket recommendation anymore.

Venice says conversations are stored locally, its Private models operate under zero-data-retention arrangements, and some Pro models can now use hardware-verified TEE or fully end-to-end encrypted E2EE inference.

Those are real privacy features, as long as Venice is telling the truth about absolutely everything that they advertise.

So, is Venice AI safe for sensitive information?

I can’t give you a definitive yes or no. What I can tell you is that I personally would not trust Venice with truly sensitive information or data anymore.

For sensitive material, my preference would be even simpler: Run the AI locally on your own machine.

A local model running directly on hardware you control removes the third-party AI provider from the inference process completely.

And this has become much easier.

For example, Google offers Gemma 4, an open model specifically optimized to run on everyday devices such as phones, tablets, and laptops.

Is Gemma 4 going to outperform the biggest frontier models on complicated problems?

No.

But if I’m working with information I absolutely do not want sent to somebody else’s server, I’ll happily sacrifice some intelligence for privacy.

For extremely sensitive legal documents, medical information, financial records, trade secrets, or private company information, that’s definitely worth considering.

Venice AI Image Generation Review

Venice has come a long way with AI images.

Here are a few examples:

You can now access a ridiculous number of image models from one interface, including some of the biggest names available.

But there’s an important catch here, too.

The best image models aren’t necessarily included as unlimited generations with your Venice Pro subscription.

Many premium image models consume credits that you have to buy separately, just like the text models.

Are you noticing a pattern yet?

This is one of those details that’s easy to miss when you first sign up, so I’m mentioning it now before you enthusiastically subscribe and discover your shiny new AI toy has microtransactions.

Venice Pro does include image generation and gives you monthly credits for premium features. But if you plan on heavily using premium image, video, music, API, or frontier AI models, you may burn through those credits and need to spend a lot of additional money.

That doesn’t necessarily make Venice a bad image platform.

It means you need to understand what the $18 per month subscription actually includes.

Venice AI Voice Mode Is Pretty Good, But the Time Limit Is Absurd

Venice also finally has a much more realistic Voice Mode.

It’s considerably better than the generic robotic voice functionality Venice had when I originally reviewed the platform.

Unfortunately, Venice gives Pro subscribers just one hour of Voice Mode usage per 30 days.

Yes, only one hour per month.

ChatGPT Plus currently gives users substantially more Voice usage on a rolling 24-hour basis, depending on which Voice model you select.

That comparison is brutal.

And ChatGPT’s latest Voice experience sounds very human while also integrating things like memory and web search.

So yes, Venice Voice Mode has improved.

Just don’t get too attached to it.

It’s on the clock, and your one hour per month is quickly ticking away.

Can Venice AI Be Trusted?

This is where you get the inside information.

Pay attention to every word you’re about to read.

It’s the type of insight that you won’t find anywhere else on the internet.

I was an affiliate for Venice for almost two years. Not just any affiliate. I was their top affiliate and brand ambassador.

I made more Venice content than anyone else, and it wasn’t even close. There was also a documented agreement in place to keep working with them through February of 2027.

Then in May of 2026, with zero notice, Venice’s new leadership team decided to arbitrarily shut down their entire affiliate program, including their relationship with Run The Prompts.

It gets a lot worse.

They tried to convince me that they needed my proprietary business data to potentially keep the affiliate relationship going through February 2027. I believe they had no right to do this.

When they got me on a Zoom call to discuss the situation, they were highly disrespectful, unprofessional, dismissive, and treated me like an adversary instead of the partner who had been driving more traffic to and awareness to their brand than anyone else on the internet.

Over the past year, between the Run The Prompts YouTube channel and this website, that number was well over 100,000 views.

It takes a lot of time, knowledge, experience, and energy to be able to accomplish this.

It’s not easy.

Here is what you need to understand from reading this.

Is Venice AI legit? Yes, Venice is a real company with a real AI platform.

Is Venice AI trustworthy? That is a completely different question.

I don’t think Venice is a company you can trust.

I am telling you this from direct personal experience with their leadership team.

They claim to be private. That’s how they market themselves everywhere. I cannot prove whether they actually are or are not private. Maybe they are.

But ask yourself this: Would you want to trust a company that treats their number one brand ambassador this way? Someone they felt they could just discard like a piece of useless garbage?

If this is how they operate with their top affiliate and brand ambassador, by a wide margin, the person bringing them the most revenue and exposure, do you really believe they are going to protect your best interests?

Personally, I do not.

And after what they pulled with me, I would not blame you for coming to the same conclusion.

The Hard Line: What “Unfiltered” and “No Filters” Really Mean

Let’s get this straight. When we talk about an “unfiltered” AI with “no filters,” we’re talking about freedom from the corporate-approved, woke, overly sensitive censorship that blocks everything from a swear word to a politically incorrect joke to legal sexual content. It’s an AI that treats you like an adult.

This absolutely does not mean it’s a free-for-all to break the law.

Venice’s terms, like any legitimate platform’s, strictly forbid creating illegal content. This includes, but is not limited to, any content involving minors, non-consensual acts, or anything that violates privacy or defamation laws. An “unfiltered” experience is for creative freedom within the bounds of the law, not for committing crimes.

Venice AI Review Verdict: Is Venice Worth It in 2026?

To summarize this Venice AI review in one sentence: I no longer recommend Venice, and I no longer think it’s worth it.

If you think I’m saying bad things about Venice because they ended their affiliate program, then you’re wrong.

It was actually good timing.

I started getting a bit nervous about all of the pro-Venice content I had created because I was witnessing the decline in product quality and its fall from grace around the same time that they cut the program.

So it was probably for the best.

Venice isn’t exactly useless, but let’s just say…the times they have ‘a changed.

The old Venice is no more.

And I don’t think it’s coming back ever again.

Have you used Venice recently? Let me know what your experience has been in the comment section below.

Until next time, remember to run the prompts and prompt the planet.

Disclaimer & Boundaries: This Venice review is for educational and entertainment purposes, exploring what’s possible with AI tools. You are 100% responsible for your actions and must obey all laws—especially those concerning age, consent, and likeness. Creating illegal content is strictly forbidden. We do not condone it, and we are not liable for the consequences if you choose to break the rules. Use these tools responsibly.