Our automated security review marked venice.ai as suspicious. Several warning signs were detected; it may still turn out legitimate, but you should verify it through independent channels before trusting it with money or credentials.

Is venice.ai safe to use?

venice.ai currently scores 50/100 on our trust scale. We found enough warning signals to recommend caution. Verify the site through independent channels before entering credentials or money.

Does venice.ai have a valid SSL certificate?

Yes. venice.ai presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 87 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.

How old is the venice.ai domain?

venice.ai is 7.1 years old, registered on 4/14/2019 through Cloudflare, Inc. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.

Is venice.ai on any phishing or malware blacklists?

No. venice.ai is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.

Where is venice.ai hosted?

venice.ai resolves to an IP operated by Cloudflare, Inc. in US (usage type: Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.

How often is the venice.ai report updated?

We cache results for 24 hours. Signed-in MalwareTips members can trigger a manual rescan at any time using the "Rescan" button on the report page, which re-runs every check from scratch and refreshes this page.

SUSPICIOUS

Shop shows non-delivery red flags

Several red flags typical of non-delivery shops are present. Don't pay by crypto or wire, and keep the chargeback window in mind.

Security Review

Is venice.ai legit or a scam?

Name: Is venice.ai legit or a scam?
Item: venice.ai
Rating: 3
Author: MalwareTips

Our verdict:Suspicious· 50/100

SafeSuspiciousDangerous

Private AI service with crypto-only checkout, 7-year-old domain, registered Wyoming company, and mixed independent review aggregator reviews citing refunds and legitimacy concerns.

Top reasons

Crypto-only checkout with no credit-card or reversible payment option.35 complaints on review sites centered on refunds, billing, and image limits.No email, phone, or postal address listed anywhere on the page.

venice.aiScanned 3d ago

Post Facebook

Trust score

SUSPICIOUS

Heuristics 48·MT 52

Category tags

ai-tool65% MT confidence

Technical red flags (2)

Impersonates OpenAI / ChatGPT Crypto-Only Checkout

Warning signals (1)

Scam-network signals (30/100)

Positive signals (4)

Not on major blacklists Domain is 7 years old Encrypted connection Clean server reputation

These checks passed — but they don't clear the site. A clean antivirus result, valid SSL, and a calm server only mean it isn't hosting malware; they say nothing about whether the business is real. This verdict is based on the site's conduct and content, not a malware detection.

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Analysis Summary

Threat Intelligence

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Data unavailable

Domain Age

7 years old

Registered Apr 14, 2019

MT Intelligence

Suspicious

Moderate likelihood · 65% confidence

MT Intelligence

Advanced threat intelligence

MT Security Analyst

Moderate scam likelihoodengineMT · Guardiantrust52/100

MT AgentLive web researchVisual inspectionNetwork correlation

Confidence

The site presents itself as a legitimate private AI alternative using open models from multiple providers and states no affiliation with our AI engine. The domain is over seven years old with valid SSL and a clean hosting IP, and the company Venice.ai, Inc. is registered as an active Wyoming corporation. However the checkout accepts only cryptocurrency with no reversible payment method and the page lists no contact details. Independent review sites show 35 complaints focused on refunds, billing limits, and crypto aspects alongside some positive feedback for privacy features. These factors together produce a moderate-risk profile rather than outright malicious or fully trusted.

Full dossier

Analysis complete

Page Content

Professional landing page promoting private AI chat, image, video and audio generation with uncensored models. No login forms or countdown timers detected; page explicitly notes conversations stay local until deleted by the user.

Infrastructure

Valid SSL certificate from Google Trust Services, hosting IP with zero abuse reports, and one clean redirect. External resources load from featurebase and status subdomains only.

Domain History

Domain registered 2605 days ago through Cloudflare with privacy protection enabled. No recent creation or typosquatting indicators.

Web Reputation

Registered US business confirmed; independent review aggregator shows 2.4/5 from 35 reviews with repeated refund and crypto complaints, while Reddit and YouTube contain positive mentions of privacy and lack of censorship.

Risk Factors

Crypto-only checkout with no credit-card or reversible payment option.
35 complaints on review sites centered on refunds, billing, and image limits.
No email, phone, or postal address listed anywhere on the page.
Medium-confidence brand impersonation flag for our AI engine/our AI engine.

Positive Signals

Domain more than seven years old with valid SSL and clean IP reputation.
Active Wyoming-registered US company (Venice.ai, Inc.).
Professional visual design with no obvious scam elements or malware indicators.
Positive user mentions on Reddit and YouTube praising privacy features.

AI Recommendation

Review the full terms and refund policy before any paid subscription; consider testing the free tier first and avoid sending large crypto amounts until you are comfortable with the service.

Scam network detected

Related infrastructure identified

Crypto-only checkout template detected with no contact information; matches patterns seen on other crypto-payment services.

Next-gen fraud intelligence

Evidence-backedCross-checked

Website Preview

LIVE RENDER

venice.ai

1Impersonates OpenAI / ChatGPT

Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site. See full visual analysis →

Visual Screenshot Analysis

We capture a fresh screenshot of the live page and ask a vision model to look for scam visual patterns — fake trust badges, countdown timers, overlay pop-ups, and visual clones of legitimate brands.

/ 100

Low visual risk

Visual red flags detected in the screenshot

Clean, professional landing page with no visible scam indicators or suspicious elements.

Visual risk5/100

Brand Impersonation

medium confidence

The page mentions or styles itself as OpenAI / ChatGPT, but is hosted on a domain that is not an official OpenAI / ChatGPT property.

Web Research Findings

Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for venice.ai, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.

Domain age

7.1 yrs

Registered Apr 2019

Business registration

Active · United States

Site traces back to an actively registered business.

Clone check

Not a clone

No well-known site's layout or branding detected here.

Typosquat check

No look-alike match

The domain doesn't resemble any well-known brand's spelling.

Web mentions

3 scam reports · 35 complaints · 3 positive

Key findings

7 headline facts from open-web research

- Official site venice.ai offers private, uncensored AI for text, images, video; conversations claimed stored locally in browser.
- Company: Venice.ai, Inc. (Wyoming corporation); LinkedIn lists founded 2024, 2-10 employees; has VVV token and crypto payments.
- Active subreddit r/VeniceAI; reached 3M users per Facebook post; Pro plan ~$18/month or $8-50/year options mentioned.
- Trustpilot: 35 reviews, 2.4/5 score; multiple complaints on refunds, billing, image limits, crypto aspects.
- Positive mentions on Reddit/YouTube for privacy and lack of censorship vs ChatGPT; some reviews note weaker performance/memory.
- Domain referenced in reviews as ChatGPT alternative; uses anonymized/third-party models and self-hosted open-source models.
- No evidence of direct domain typosquat; crypto checkout and token system noted in user concerns.

Scam reports (3)

Direct quotes from public scam databases, forums, and news.

Trustpilotopen
"what a joke like others have said Dont fall victim no refunds not worth the 18 .00 scam"
Trustpilotopen
"This company is a SCAM / NOT LEGITIMATE This company is a scam not legitimate AI. it's probably a bunch of people in a warehouse responding as fast as they can."
Trustpilotopen
"Venice looks too much like a crypto scam. ... Rightly or not, this looks very much like a crypto scam. Venice should do better."

Positive reviews (3)

Quotes indicating the site is legitimate.

Redditopen
"I just found an excellent, private, and mostly uncensored AI. It's called Venice.ai. They host open source Ai models , and keep zero data on you."
YouTubeopen
"Venice is considered one of the most private AI apps available conversations stay in your browser locally until you personally delete them."
Trustpilotopen
"Uncensored and allows genuinely free speech. Result! It's not perfect, but Venice doesn't tell you what to think..."

Business registration

Status: active · United States

Venice.ai, Inc., a Wyoming corporation with registered office at 1309 Coffeen Avenue Suite 14343, Sheridan Wyoming 82801

Research summary

Narrative write-up from our AI analyst, grounded on the facts above

Our research found three scam-related posts on independent review aggregator accusing the service of being illegitimate or a crypto scam, plus 35 total complaints focused on refunds and billing. Three positive reviews appear on Reddit, YouTube, and independent review aggregator praising privacy and uncensored access. A Wyoming-registered US company was confirmed as active.

Scam Network Intelligence

Cross-site correlation

This site shares signals with a broader cluster

Moderate correlation

Many scams don't operate alone. We correlate third-party scripts, hosting infrastructure, brand-impersonation signals, and the AI evidence package to detect when a site is part of a broader scam network.

Suspicion score

0/100

ClearLowModerateHighCritical

Evidence (2)

Checkout only accepts cryptocurrency — no reversible payment option.
Zero contact info on a crypto/gambling page — legitimate operators publish a licence and address.

Linked signals (2)

Template · Crypto Only CheckoutPattern · Contactless Crypto

Security Scans

Blacklist Check

Not flagged on major threat lists

Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.

Contact Verification

We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.

What We Found

No clear contact details on the page

Emails on site's domainNone

Phone numbersNone

Postal addressNot listed

Linked social profiles0

Signal Summary

Several contact red flags

No contact email found anywhere on the page.
No phone number listed on the page.
No postal address visible on the page.
Page impersonates OpenAI / ChatGPT on a non-official domain.
Scam family match: Crypto-Only Checkout.

Domain & Encryption

Domain History

Age7 years old

RegistrarCloudflare, Inc

RegisteredApr 14, 2019

ExpiresApr 14, 2027

Owner privacyHidden

Encryption Certificate

StatusValid

ProtocolTLSv1.3

IssuerGoogle Trust Services · WE1

ExpiresAug 28, 2026 (87d)

Self-signedNo

Hosting & Technology

HostingCloudflare, Inc.

Server locationUS

Web servercloudflare

Redirect Chain

Hops

Cross-domain

Lookalike

Punycode

1308http://venice.ai/
2200https://venice.ai/

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence

Confidence score0%

Reports on file0

ISPCloudflare, Inc.

Usage typeContent Delivery Network

Scam-Type Likelihood

2 scam-type patterns detected

Scam-Type Likelihood

0 of 13 categories showed signals

We check every URL against 13 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.

Top match: Fake Shop

Fake Shop

Moderate likelihood

0/100

Crypto-only checkout — no card / bank payment option.
No phone number or postal address anywhere on the page.
Multiple contact / trust-signal red flags on the page.

Brand Impersonation

Low-level signals

0/100

Page mentions OpenAI / ChatGPT (non-official domain).

Scam-Type Likelihood

0 of 13 categories showed signals

Top match: Fake Shop

Fake Shop

Moderate likelihood

0/100

Crypto-only checkout — no card / bank payment option.
No phone number or postal address anywhere on the page.
Multiple contact / trust-signal red flags on the page.

Brand Impersonation

Low-level signals

0/100

Page mentions OpenAI / ChatGPT (non-official domain).

Fake-shop warning signs

Signals common to non-delivery scam shops were detected on this site.

Treat venice.ai as unverified
Do not enter credentials or send money until you have independently verified the business.
If you already paid by card or PayPal — start a chargeback
Contact your bank or card issuer and dispute the charge as "goods not received" or "merchant fraud." PayPal users can open a case in the Resolution Centre. Act within 120 days for card chargebacks in most jurisdictions.
Save every piece of evidence
Screenshots of the checkout, order confirmation emails, any chat transcripts, and the product listing page. Chargeback and fraud reports go faster when you have receipts.
Report the shop
Report to the FTC (reportfraud.ftc.gov), Action Fraud UK, or your local consumer-protection body. Post the URL on the MalwareTips scam forum so other buyers can find it.
Open

Reputation Sources

How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.

Google Safe Browsing

Not listedCheck ↗

AbuseIPDB

Not listedCheck ↗

Also verify:Spamhaus ↗DNSBL / SURBL ↗PhishTank ↗

Referenced Domains

Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.

veniceai.featurebase.app veniceai-status.com static.cloudflareinsights.com

Safety FAQ

Common questions about this site, answered from the scan data on this page. These are auto-generated — not hand-written — so they always match the underlying report.

Our automated security review marked venice.ai as suspicious. Several warning signs were detected; it may still turn out legitimate, but you should verify it through independent channels before trusting it with money or credentials.

Final Verdict

Trust / 100

Final Verdict·venice.ai

SUSPICIOUS

Venice.ai is a private uncensored AI platform for text, images and video. Our analysis finds a registered US company and clean technical scans but crypto-only payments plus multiple refund and billing complaints on review sites warrant caution before subscribing.

Review the full terms and refund policy before any paid subscription; consider testing the free tier first and avoid sending large crypto amounts until you are comfortable with the service.

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