Venice vs Maple: who can read your prompt, and what each plan verifies

The Morse teamPublished October 26, 2026Facts checked October 26, 20269 min read

As of October 2026, Maple AI vs Venice AI comes down to what each one makes you give up. Maple encrypts every chat end to end and has its app check the enclave before anything is sent, on its free plan too, but it runs only open-weight models and keeps your encrypted history on its servers. Venice offers 140 text models, GPT, Claude, and Gemini among them, and keeps history in your browser, but its end-to-end encrypted mode needs Pro, and for its frontier models it tells you the provider "likely saves your prompt." Choose Maple for verified encryption on every chat and native apps, choose Venice for the widest catalog and image, video, and music tools, and choose Morse for frontier models sent under Morse's account instead of yours, enclave chats your own browser checks on Pro, and history kept on your device.

We read Venice's privacy page, pricing, FAQ, privacy policy, terms, API docs, its TEE and E2EE guide, and its public model list, and Maple's proof page, pricing, privacy notice, model library, blog, release notes, and the OpenSecret backend in its GitHub repository, all on October 26, 2026. Neither trains on your chats by its own terms, both publish how their enclave checks work, and both say plainly where their protection stops.

Venice vs Maple vs Morse at a glance

As of October 26, 2026. Every Venice and Maple cell links to that company's own page.

Which Venice models get Maple-style protection?

Twelve of 140, and only on Pro. Venice labels every model Anonymous, Private, TEE, or E2EE, and only TEE and E2EE, both Pro-only, rest on an attested enclave the way every Maple chat does; the other two rest on Venice's and its partners' contracts (Venice). Our Venice AI alternatives walk through each mode and Venice's privacy policy.

The labels split Venice's catalog almost in half. Its public model list, read through its API on October 26, 2026, has 140 text models: 67 labeled "anonymized" and 73 "private," with 12 of the private ones able to run end to end encrypted (Venice). All 16 Claude entries, all 8 Gemini entries, and every GPT entry except the two open-weight GPT OSS 120B listings are anonymized. Venice's API docs say of that mode, "Prompt content is still visible to that provider" (Venice).

Venice is ahead of most apps on what it keeps. Its privacy FAQ lists what it does record, product event logs and billing metadata but no prompts, and says shared chats sit encrypted on its servers for 14 days with the key only in the link (Venice).

How does Venice's end-to-end encryption work?

Your device encrypts the prompt for an enclave that Venice's outside partners run. Venice added the mode on March 18, 2026 (Venice), and its developer guide names Intel TDX with NVIDIA Confidential Computing, a fresh secp256k1 key pair per session, and AES-256-GCM (Venice).

Through the API, the attestation reply's "verified" field means "the attestation passed server-side verification," and Venice advises that "For production use, verify the attestation client-side" (Venice).

A February 2026 post comparing the two described Venice as a proxy with no cryptographic proof to offer (Nostr). Venice launched its E2EE mode three weeks later. Today the proof comes with every Maple plan and with Venice Pro.

Is Maple AI really end-to-end encrypted?

Yes, for every chat on every plan, by Maple's design. Its pricing lists end-to-end encryption on Free (Maple), and its app checks the AWS Nitro Enclave's attestation before it sends anything (Maple); we cover what that check proves, and what it leaves out, in Maple vs Confer.

Like Venice, Maple doesn't run the model's hardware alone. The deployment guide for its OpenSecret backend sets up API keys for two outside confidential-AI providers, Tinfoil and Continuum, and an AWS KMS key that, in its example policy, releases secrets only to a requester whose attestation matches the enclave image (GitHub). Maple's CEO wrote that "Your personal encryption key is managed automatically" by the enclaves, so there is nothing for you to manage (Maple). Our guide to checking an AI enclave's attestation walks through what each of these checks proves.

Where do Venice and Maple keep your chat history?

In opposite places. Venice keeps chats and memory in your browser, with password-locked backups on Pro (Venice), as our Venice AI alternatives describe.

Maple keeps your history encrypted on its side so it syncs across devices (Maple), which Maple vs Confer covers. Maple's privacy notice, revised October 20, 2026, reads differently in one place: "Conversational data processed without memory features enabled is not retained after your session ends." The same notice says Maple keeps account metadata such as name, email, and payment details while the account is active and "for a reasonable period thereafter" (Maple). For planning, go by the proof page's wording, which has an encrypted copy of your chats sitting on Maple's side.

Which is less filtered, Venice or Maple?

Venice has more options, though Maple narrowed the gap this month. Venice's model list includes Venice Uncensored 1.2, a role-play model, and an uncensored DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, all in Private mode, plus one uncensored Gemma 4 model that can run end to end encrypted (Venice). Its Mature Filter can be turned off only on Pro or higher (Venice). On October 24, 2026, Maple added an abliterated DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, "with its weights edited by Dealign AI to reduce refusal behavior," on Pro, Max, and Team, and says "It runs in its own attested enclave, like our other models" (Maple). So an uncensored DeepSeek V4.1 Flash runs under contract on Venice and inside an attested enclave on Maple.

Venice vs Maple: which costs less?

Venice is $2 a month cheaper at the entry tier, and Maple gives you more for free. The table above has each plan's price, and Venice's pricing and Maple's pricing list what each tier includes. Of the two, only Maple gives you a verified chat for $0; on Venice, it starts at $18 a month.

How Morse closes the gap between verified privacy and the models you want

Venice reaches GPT, Claude, and Gemini by letting their providers read your prompt, and by its own warning likely keep it, and puts its proof behind Pro. Maple proves every chat but offers no frontier model and keeps an encrypted copy of your history on its servers. In Morse, your history stays in your browser, and you choose a mode for each chat.

• E2EE, for the verified chat both apps offer, checked by your own browser. Before a word leaves your device, your browser fetches the enclave's hardware attestation, verifies the proof itself, and fails the check if the software differs from the version pinned in the Morse app. Only then is the message sealed for that one enclave. Our servers relay ciphertext they can't read, and the reply is decrypted only in your browser. Open the lock on any E2EE reply to see each check that passed, or download the full report. The enclaves are run by third-party providers, not by Morse, and as with Venice's and Maple's, the guarantee rests on the enclave hardware and attestation working as designed. E2EE runs open-weight models without web search or image generation, and it comes with Pro, at $19 a month.
• Anonymous, for GPT, Claude, and Gemini without your name on the request. Our proxy removes your account, email, and IP address and sends the message under Morse's own account, so the provider answers without knowing it's you. It still reads the text and may keep it for a limited time to check for abuse, under its own policy, so leave out names and details you'd rather keep to yourself.
• Private, for open-weight models and Grok on hosts that agreed to keep nothing. Morse has zero data retention agreements with its inference, search, and other providers. Where a provider confirms zero retention on each reply, Morse checks it and refuses a reply that doesn't. New chats start here.

In every mode, your chat history is stored only in your browser, encrypted, and locked when you sign out. Unlocking it takes a key that never leaves your device and one our server gives you at sign-in, so a copy of the browser data alone can't be read. Morse doesn't train AI on what you write, sell your data, or show ads, and because we don't store chats, we usually have very little to give authorities. Clearing the browser deletes the chats for good, and we can't recover them, so keep a copy of anything important. On paid plans, unfiltered models answer what other apps refuse, from dark fiction to straight medical and legal answers. For the background, see what a trusted execution environment is and what zero data retention means.

Choose Venice, Maple, or Morse

• Choose Venice if you want the largest catalog in one place, image, video, and music generation paid with credits, history that stays in your browser, or an API, and you'll pay for Pro to get its encrypted models.
• Choose Maple if you want the enclave check on every chat, free plan included, and its abliterated DeepSeek V4.1 Flash inside an attested enclave, and an encrypted copy of your history on Maple's side doesn't bother you.
• Choose Morse if you want the GPT, Claude, and Gemini that Maple doesn't run, sent under Morse's account so the provider doesn't know it's you, E2EE chats your own browser checks, with Pro at $19 a month, and history that stays in your browser instead of on a server.

Start free with no card, or send a message from the Morse home page without an account. On Pro, open the lock on your first E2EE reply to see the checks for yourself.

Morse publishes this comparison. We've tried to keep it fair; if something's wrong or out of date, email hello@trymorse.ai.

Venice is a trademark of Venice.ai. Morse is not affiliated with or endorsed by Venice.ai.

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