Venice Image Engine v2 is now live and represents a comprehensive overhaul of our image generation infrastructure, delivering the highest quality results across a range of styles
Let’s dive in 🧵
Venice Image Engine v2 consists of two major components:
1. Venice SD35 (New Default model): Custom-configured Stable Diffusion 3.5 engine powered by a Comfy UI workflow backend.
2. Upscale & Enhance (Pro only): Completely new upscaling architecture with proprietary enhancement that creatively in-fills new pixels at the higher resolution.
Venice SD35
Venice implemented substantial improvements to the base Stable Diffusion 3.5 architecture:
Advanced prompt processing: We've removed token limitations that restrict other image generators, allowing you to write longer, more detailed prompts that better capture your creative vision.
Natural language understanding: Venice SD35 processes conversational language more effectively, so you can describe images as you would to a human artist instead of using awkward keyword lists.
Custom image generation pipeline: a specialized image generation Comfy UI workflow on the backend that delivers superior results through optimized processing techniques that standard implementations don't provide.
Let’s compare our new default image model Venice SD35 to our previous default image model Fluently
Upscale and Enhance
The new Upscale & Enhance system represents a significant leap beyond traditional pixel-by-pixel methods:
Use Upscale for accurate enlargements: Use the Upscale feature when you want to maintain the exact style and composition of your image while increasing resolution.
Use Enhancer for creative enhancements: Use the Enhance feature when you want to add details and refinements beyond what's in the original image. Adjust the creativity setting based on how much creative liberty you want the AI to take. For consistent results we suggest loading in your original prompt in the prompt field.
Combine for professional outputs: Combine both approaches by first generating with Venice SD35, then upscaling, and finally applying a subtle enhancement for the highest quality results.
Let’s compare zoomed-in screenshots for the following image.
Let’s compare zoomed-in screenshots for the following image.
Venice SD35 standard
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Venice SD35 + 4x Upscale
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Venice SD35 + 4x Upscale + Enhance
For more details, as well as a comprehensive guide on best prompting tips to get the most out of Venice Image Engine V2 + prompt template, read our blog:
How to build private AI agent-powered workflows with n8n & Venice API
A comprehensive step-by-step guide 🧵
Integration Prerequisites
Before starting the integration process, ensure you have the following prerequisites in place:
Venice API Key
Obtain your Venice API key by staking VVV tokens, topping up your account with USD, or upgrading to Venice Pro. Note that Pro accounts have more restrictive rate limits.
Follow the Venice API documentation for detailed instructions on generating your API key: docs.venice.ai/overview/guide…
n8n Instance
Either a n8n Cloud account or a self-hosted n8n instance. Self-hosting offers greater flexibility and privacy for advanced workflows.
For creating a free n8n Cloud account, refer to the n8n Quickstart Guide. This guide walks you through the sign-up process, including registering your workspace and getting started with workflow automation.
We're shipping new features every day, so here's our weekly overview of the daily changelog 🧵
 🗓️ March 14-15
Securely Backup Chat History
Pro users can how securely backup chat history and migrate to other devices, or recover from a loss of data in their local browser.
Here's how they work:
1On your local device, when you create a new backup, Venice encrypts your data with a password that only you control.
2That backup is then broken into chunks and uploaded to Venice's infrastructure.
3You can then download and restore that backup, either overwriting your existing history, or merging it, on any logged in device.
A few important notes:
•Venice does not have any record of the password you create, so if you loose it, your backup is unrecoverable. We suggest you use a password manager to store them.
•You are limited to a max of 5 concurrent backups.
•Backups expire after 90 days.
Backups can be accessed via the menu in the left hand side menu
From there, you can create a new backup, or restore an existing one
We're shipping new features every day, so here's our weekly overview of the daily changelog 🧵
🗓️ March 7-9
Characters with Pro Models accessible to all users
Characters that use Venice Pro models are now accessible for non-pro members to interact with. Anonymous and Free users will get a limited number of chats with these characters before being prompted to upgrade to Venice Pro. We look forward to your feedback on Venice Characters.
Venice Voice Downloads
Venice users can now download audio generate from Venice Voice. Once the audio has completely generated, a download icon will appear to the right of the speaker. Clicking this will allow you to save the audio recording as a .wav file.
App
Refactored the Venice Voice UI so that the button in the message rows only controls reading for that particular message. For users who wish to have the whole conversation read, that can one enabled in the Text settings.
Venice Voice pronunciation and processing was improved to provide better pronunciation and to strip out characters that are not processable.
Fixed a bug where a user who was speaking to a character, then went to an image conversation and returned to the character would get an image generation in the first message with that character.
We're shipping new features every day, so here's an overview of this week's daily changelog 🧵
🗓️Feb 28th
App
Filtered out uncensored image models from the available image model list when Venice Safe Mode is enabled for image generation.
Hide chat settings on character pages unless toggled on.
API
Added documentation on the /characters endpoint that provides details on available public characters.
Resolved issue with in-painting where invalid images would throw 500 errors. Invalid images will now throw 400 Bad Request errors with a description in the body of the response.
🗓️Mar 1st - 3rd
App
When the account level “Safe Venice” mode is enabled, Uncensored image models will now be redacted from the model selector.
Provide more human interpretable errors when uploading files to the chat input.
Characters
Character chat now has a web enabled toggle as part of the input.
API
Added support for response_format in our API. The docs have been updated and an example can be found here in Postman.
Added supportsResponseSchema capability in the API models list. The docs have been updated.
Added a default_reasoning API trait assigned to Deepseek 671B. See this endpoint for a full list of all API traits.
Exposed all API headers to be visible in the browser via Access-Control-Expose-Headers
Resolved issues with x-venice- headers in API responses not consistently returning rate limits and VCU / USD balances.