The analgesic activity of vilazodone in albino rats and mice was compared with the standard drug pentazocine and diclofenac, and its antiinflammatory activity in albino rats was compared with the standard drug indomethacin. The doses of vilazodone used were 1.8mg/kg and 3.6mg/kg in albino rats and 2.6mg/kg and 5.2 mg/kg in albino mice, and the methods to screen analgesic activities were eddy's hot plate method, tail flick method using radiant heat and acetic acid induced writhing method and formalin-induced peritonitis was used to screen anti-inflammatory activity. The data was analyzed statistically and results were expressed as numbers and percentages. For vilazodone dose of 1.8mg/kg and 3.6mg/kg using eddy's hot plate method mean reaction time were 6.50± 0.288 and 5.70± 0.285, in tail flick method 6.50±0.288 and 6.45± 0.521. In the writhing method at a dose of 2.6mg/kg and 5.2 mg/kg in albino mice vilazodone showed 30.33±1.15 and 28.16±0.98 analgesic activity compared to control. In formalin induced peritonitis vilazodone 1.8mg/kg and 3.6mg/kg showed 2.2±0.13 and 1.86±0.05 anti-inflammatory activity when compared to control. Statistically significant results were obtained with a higher dose in hot plate and tail flick method and with low dose in writhing method when compared to the standard. Vilazodone, compared to standard in formalininduced peritonitis, has shown statistically significant results in both doses. Vilazodone has shown significant analgesic and anti-inflammatory activities.INTRODUCTION: Pain is one of the common health problems with a sensory experience that is multidirectional, intrinsically unpleasant, illdefined, disabling of many medical conditions. According to the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP), the updated and recent definition of pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with or resembling that associated with, actual or potential tissue damage 1 .