The Venice community, as well as I, have recently noticed Venice getting… slower.
My assumption is that this is related to growing pains and scaling their technology, which, unfortunately, I cannot control.
Just take a look at this Google Trends chart on how popular Venice is getting:
Venice has literally never been as popular as it is at the time of this writing. I’m not making excuses for them; I’m just saying that scaling a business isn’t easy.
The good news is that there are several things you can do to make Venice AI respond faster and feel more nimble, and none of them are difficult.
Even after Venice’s scaling solutions are implemented, these tips will still help you.
Let’s party.
1. Clean Up Memories
This is one nobody has talked about yet.
If you use Venice’s memory feature, go check your saved Memories. You may be surprised by how much stuff is sitting in there.
To find it, go to Settings → Memory → Manage Memory → Notes.
I had well over 100 memories saved, although I didn’t count them. When I looked through them, most of them were not important anymore. So, as a test, I deleted all of them to see if it would help with speed.
It did.
That makes sense because Venice can reference those memories while chatting with you. The more memories it has to consider, the more context it may need to process.
You don’t need to delete everything as I did. I was testing it. But you should keep only high-value memories.
Good memories might include your writing style, business details, recurring projects, or important preferences.
My hope is that Venice provides more Memory options in the future, such as the ability to select how aggressively it saves memories or to only save memories when you prompt it with “remember this.” That would help with this situation a lot.
Memories are nice, but speedy memories are better.
2. Clean Up Insights
Another one nobody has talked about, although it’s more minor.
There’s another memory-related setting worth checking: Manage Insights.
To find it, go to Settings → Memory → Manage Insights.
From there, open the User Profile tab, click the pencil icon, and clear out anything unnecessary or incorrect. If something is outdated or wrong, fix it.
Then go to the Interaction Preferences tab, click the pencil icon, and do the same thing there.
If enabled, this information is also used to customize Venice’s responses for you. That can be useful, but if it’s bloated with random, outdated, or inaccurate information, it may add unnecessary context and potentially slow things down. It can also cause Venice to give you worse answers because it’s personalizing responses based on bad info.
That’s obviously not ideal.
So don’t just check your Memories. Check Manage Insights, too.
Keep the useful stuff. Delete or correct the rest.
3. Use a Faster Model
This is obvious, but I might as well mention it for any newbies.
The faster the model, the faster the response. Shocking discovery. Someone call the neighbors.
If you’re using a model with a huge context window, like one of the heavy GLM models or heavier DeepSeek models, you may get slower responses. That does not mean those models are bad. They’re actually better. That’s the point. They’re more intelligent and doing more work.
If you want faster replies, use a quicker model like Venice Uncensored or GLM Flash.
Use the heavy models when you need answers to complicated questions. Use the faster models when you just need quick responses.
4. Turn Off Reasoning Mode Unless You Need It
Thinking mode can improve answers, but it also slows things down by quite a bit.
That’s the tradeoff.
I usually only turn on thinking mode when I have at least a semi-complicated question. If it’s simple, I leave it off.
You probably don’t need thinking mode to ask for five headline ideas, rewrite a paragraph, or summarize a short amount of text. That’s like bringing a forklift to carry a sandwich.
By the way, here’s something cool that doesn’t require thinking mode: you can get 20% off Venice AI now with promo code RUNTHE20.
5. Turn Off “Web Enabled” Unless You Need It
Web search will definitely slow things down.
When web search is on, Venice may search online before answering. I’ve also noticed that sometimes Venice will use web search even when it really doesn’t need to.
So keep it off unless you’re actually doing research.
Turn it on for current information, recent news, pricing, product details, laws, or anything that could have changed recently.
Leave it off for brainstorming, writing, editing, summarizing your own text, or general questions.
Venice does not need to search the internet every time you ask it if you’re getting fat.
6. Start New Chats
Long chats can slow things down.
The longer the chat, the more context Venice may need to carry forward. The bigger the context window gets, the more work Venice has to do.
If you’re working on one focused project, staying in the same chat is fine.
But if the chat has turned into a giant pile of unrelated topics, start a new one.
New topic? New chat.
7. Close Venice and Reopen It Once in a While
This is a minor speed boost and only affects the snapiness of the UI, but if you’re using Venice in the web app, closing it and reopening it can sometimes help.
Browsers collect cached files, temporary data, and other random junk over time. That can slow down web apps, including Venice.
This will not magically turn a slow model into a race car, but if Venice starts feeling sluggish overall, it’s an easy thing to try.
8. Disable Unnecessary Browser Extensions
Browser extensions can slow down any website.
That includes Venice.
Ad blockers, grammar tools, coupon extensions, privacy tools, screenshot tools, and random extensions you forgot you installed can all add extra browser overhead.
If Venice feels slow, try disabling extensions you don’t need. You can also test Venice in another browser or private window.
If it runs faster there, one of your extensions may be part of the problem.
Wrapping It Up
Making Venice AI faster mostly comes down to using the right settings for the job.
None of this is complicated, but together, these tips can make Venice feel quite a lot faster.
Try them out and let me know in the comments below if they helped speed up your Venice AI experience.
Also, remember to get 20% off Venice AI now with promo code RUNTHE20.
And now that you have Venice running faster, your next move is to make it as uncensored as possible.
Until next time, remember to run the prompts and prompt the planet.
