September 2026
Fast Search Set search_type: "fast" on the Search API or the Agent API web_search tool to use a lower-latency search path. Fast Search costs $1.00 per 1,000 Search API requests or web_search invocations, with model tokens billed separately for Agent API. Set search_type: "web" for standard web search. See Search API Fast Search or Agent API Web Search .
Also shipped Sep 24, 2026Perplexity in September 2026 →
DCM Projects capability updates
This release updates the availability of several DCM Projects capabilities. The following capabilities are now generally available: The following capabilities are now available in preview:
Alpha Changelog - 9/23/26
Hi everyone, here are the latest round of changes on alpha.midjourney.com . Many of these came directly from your feedback in #alpha-ideas-and-bugs . Please keep it coming! STYLE PREVIEWS We're experimenting with fast models in the interface.
New project activity feed
As part of our ongoing work to simplify the Netlify dashboard, we’ve added an activity feed to the project overview page. It’s available on all plans and adapts to how your project is set up.
Retool CLI
Live on cloud • Team • Business • Enterprise Public beta 4.62 Edge • Team • Business • Enterprise Public beta 4.34.4 Stable • Team • Business • Enterprise Public beta The Retool CLI is now available in public beta.
Buildkite Cache is now in public preview
Buildkite Cache is now available in public preview. It saves and restores files and directories across pipeline jobs and builds. Use it for package manager download caches, compiled dependencies, and other regenerable data to avoid repeating work.
Service principal Genie usage is billed at standard pricing
Genie usage by service principals is now billed at standard Genie pay-as-you-go pricing. Service principals are excluded from the free monthly usage allowance that applies to individual users. See Manage budgets and cost controls for Genie and Monitor and understand your Genie cost .
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October 2026
Claude Haiku 5.5 The Agent API now supports anthropic/claude-haiku-5-5 . Requests with more than 100k input tokens use higher rates. See the Agent API Models reference .
October 2026
Gemini 4 Argon The Agent API now supports google/gemini-4-argon . Introductory pricing through November 30, 2026 is $2.00 per million input tokens, $0.10 per million cached input tokens, and $10.00 per million output tokens, including reasoning tokens. See the Agent API Models reference .
October 2026
Decisions API: pplx-decider-v1.2 and pplx-decider-flash-v1.2 pplx-decider-v1.2 replaces pplx-decider-v1.1-27b as the 27B decision model, at $0.02 per million input tokens. pplx-decider-flash-v1.2 is a new 4B decision model at $0.01 per million input tokens. Both accept text and images and use the same request limits. Output tokens stay free.
October 2026
Older models removed from the model docs; GPT-6 Astra and DeepSeek V4 Pro added The following models are no longer listed in the Agent API model docs, pricing calculator, or examples: Anthropic: anthropic/claude-opus-4-8 , anthropic/claude-opus-4-7 , anthropic/claude-opus-4-6 , anthropic/claude-opus-4-5 , anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6 ...
October 2026
Tool approvals for MCP and connector calls Set require_approval on an mcp or connector tool to review calls before they run. A call that needs approval returns an mcp_approval_request item and does not run. To approve or deny it, send an mcp_approval_response with previous_response_id .
August 2026
GLM 5.3 The Agent API and Router API now support perplexity/glm-5.3 at $1.40 per million uncached-input tokens, $0.26 per million cached-input tokens, and $4.40 per million output tokens. See the Agent API Models reference or the Router model catalog .
October 2026
The Agent API has renamed the preset parameter to effort. This is a naming change only, and existing configurations remain functional.
October 2026
Perplexity updated effort levels in the Agent API, increasing maximum token limits, expanding search step maximums, and updating backend models.