Duck.ai vs Venice AI Comparison

• Plus (monthly): USD 9.99/month or USD 99.99/year — price for DuckDuckGo's full 4-in-1 subscription (VPN + advanced Duck.ai models + Personal Information Removal + Identity Theft Restoration), NOT a Duck.ai-only tier
• Pro (monthly): USD 19.99/month or USD 199.99/year — same 4-in-1 bundle as Plus, plus Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.6 Sol, higher reasoning effort, and 2x higher usage limits in Duck.ai

• Pro (monthly): $18/mo, ~16.7% cheaper billed yearly
• Pro Plus (monthly): $68/mo, ~16.7% cheaper billed yearly
• Max (monthly): $200/mo, ~16.7% cheaper billed yearly

6 free models (Claude 4.5 Haiku, Mistral Small 4, GPT-5.4 nano, GPT-5.4 mini, gpt-oss-120b, Gemma 4 31B) available with no account; DuckDuckGo does not publish the exact daily message cap, only that one exists

Base AI models only, 10 text prompts/day, 15 image prompts/day, API access pay-as-you-go with credits. No web search, no document uploads, no vision, no text-to-speech, no character creation, no video generation, and no TEE/E2EE access on this tier.

By default, Duck.ai does not record or store any of your chats. Model providers commit to Zero Data Retention — deleting prompts and responses immediately after generating a reply — with one disclosed exception: prompts may be held in short-term memory for up to 1 hour for caching (to reduce cost and latency), but this cache is never written to disk.

Anonymous-tier requests go to outside frontier-model providers, and Venice's own guidance is to assume that provider stores the content under its own policy. Private-tier and TEE/E2EE-tier requests are not stored — enforced by contract on Private, and by hardware enclave plus client-side encryption on TEE/E2EE. One disclosed exception: prompts may sit in server memory in plaintext for the duration of a single request (never written to disk) on the Anonymous and Private tiers, and generated videos are held on Venice's servers temporarily until downloaded, then deleted shortly after — the one standing exception to the no-storage policy, due to file size.

Legal entity Duck Duck Go, Inc.; company page confirms independent ownership, majority-owned by founder Gabriel Weinberg and team members since 2008.

Venice.ai's Terms of Service are governed by Wyoming law, with the company operating from offices in Wyoming and a registered notice address in Sheridan, Wyoming. The Privacy Policy states the Service is hosted in the United States and is intended for visitors located within the United States.