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Duck.ai review
DuckDuckGo's chat front end that anonymises requests to third-party AI models
- No account needed
- No-logs policy
- No email needed
- No phone number
No ID mentioned KYC 1 Documentation reviewed
Privacy
6.4/ 10
Fair
Safety
5.0/ 10
Caution
Based on terms and documentation. No test transactions published yet. See the arithmetic
Duck.ai review in short
Duck.ai is an AI service. Its terms put it at KYC level 1 of 4: no ID mentioned. NoKYC Score grades it 6.4/10 for privacy (fair) and 5.0/10 for safety (caution). In its favour: no account needed, no email needed and no phone number. No incidents are on record.
- Category
- Private AI
- KYC level
- 1 of 4: No ID mentioned
- Grades
- Privacy 6.4/10, Safety 5.0/10
- Sign-up
- No account needed
- Fees
- Free with a daily usage limit; paid Plus and Pro tiers raise limits
- Incidents on record
- 0
- Last reviewed
- 22 Oct 2026
Cite this review
NoKYC Score, "Duck.ai review", reviewed 22 Oct 2026, https://nokycscore.com/service/duck-ai
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What Duck.ai is
Duck.ai is DuckDuckGo's interface for chatting with third-party AI models, including models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Mistral and open models hosted by Tinfoil. The help pages say all chats are anonymised: metadata such as the IP address is removed before a prompt reaches the model provider, so requests appear to come from DuckDuckGo. By default the company does not record or store chats, recent chats are kept locally on the device, and providers agree to delete prompts after replying and never to train on them, with limited exceptions for legal and safety reasons. Use is free with a daily limit; paid Plus and Pro subscriptions raise the limits and unlock more models.
What Duck.ai offers, and what to watch
4 of 13 privacy and safety features, 0 warnings in its terms.
"Not stated" means its own pages do not say.
Identity
- ID never required Not stated
- No account needed Yes Usable without creating an account, or the account is only a random number.
- No email needed Yes An email address is not required to sign up or use it.
- No phone number Yes A phone number is never required.
Payment
- Accepts Monero Not stated
- Accepts Lightning Not stated
Access
- Tor onion address Not stated
- Works without JavaScript Not stated
Trust
- Open source Not stated
- No-logs policy Yes States that connection or activity logs are not kept.
- Independent audit Not stated
- Company named Not stated
- 5+ years operating Not stated
Warnings
- May ask for ID Not in terms
- Email required Not in terms
- Phone number required Not in terms
- Closed source Not in terms
- Nobody accountable Not in terms
Does Duck.ai require KYC?
- 0 Never
- 1 Not mentioned
- 2 Rare
- 3 On risk flag
- 4 Mandatory
KYC level 1: No ID mentioned. No identity requirement appears anywhere in the terms or documentation.
Help pages describe free, anonymised use and mention no account or identity requirement for the free tier.
How the grades add up
Both grades start at 50 points and move by fixed, published amounts. Nothing is adjusted by hand. The total is divided by ten.
Privacy
6.4- Starting points 50
- KYC level 1: No ID mentioned +12
- No-logs policy +2
- Total, clamped to 0–100 64
Safety
5.0- Starting points 50
- Total, clamped to 0–100 50
Test ledger
Real transactions run by our editors. A badge without a ledger is an assertion; this is the proof.
No test transactions published yet
The grades above rest on Duck.ai’s terms and documentation. Tests will appear here with the date, route, amount band and result as they are run.
Incidents on record
No incidents are on record for Duck.ai. If you have a documented case, report it.
User reviews
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Duck.ai: common questions
Does Duck.ai require KYC?
Duck.ai is rated KYC level 1 of 4 on this site: no ID mentioned. Help pages describe free, anonymised use and mention no account or identity requirement for the free tier.
Is Duck.ai safe to use?
Duck.ai has a Safety grade of 5.0 out of 10 and a Privacy grade of 6.4 out of 10. No incidents are on record. Evidence level: documentation reviewed.
Is Duck.ai legit?
Duck.ai is a working AI service. Being real is not the same as being safe: its Safety grade here is 5.0 out of 10, built from custody, liquidity, track record and incidents.
Is Duck.ai a scam?
NoKYC Score does not label services as scams; it records documented incidents with their sources and outcomes. No incidents are on record for Duck.ai.
Do I need an account or email to use Duck.ai?
No account needed.
What fees does Duck.ai charge?
Free with a daily usage limit; paid Plus and Pro tiers raise limits. Fees were recorded from Duck.ai's own pages and can change; check before you send.
Does Duck.ai have a Tor onion address?
No official onion address was found on Duck.ai's own pages.
Can I use Duck.ai over Tor?
Duck.ai does not publish an official onion address.
Listing history
- Listing added. Facts and KYC level set from the service's own terms and documentation.