Democricetodontinae is a subfamily of fossil rodents from Miocene epoch.

Democricetodontini was named by Lindsay in 1987. It is not extant. It was considered paraphyletic by Lindsay in 1987. It was reranked as the subfamily Democricetodontinae by Theocharopoulos in 2000 and was assigned to Cricetidae by Lindsay (1987) and Theocharopoulos (2000).