Releasesby GlyphOctober 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 .
Also shipped Oct 15, 2026Perplexity in October 2026 →
Checkout footer visibility now applies to merchant-configurable content
The visibility fields on CheckoutBrandingFooterContent and CheckoutAndAccountsConfigurationBrandingFooterContent now control only merchant-configurable footer content. Checkout can display Shopify-provided transaction information in the footer regardless of this setting.
Sync real-time Stripe data to Supabase with Stripe Data Pipeline
Supabase users can now sync real-time Stripe data directly from the Stripe Dashboard using Stripe Data Pipeline. The integration handles historical backfills and ongoing syncs without requiring custom webhooks or rate limit management.
You can copy tables across regions
You can copy tables across regions . This feature is now generally available (GA).
You can now use column aliases in GoogleSQL
You can now use column aliases in GoogleSQL. This feature lets you define an alias for an expression in the SELECT clause of a SQL query and immediately reference that alias within the same SELECT list or in the WHERE clause of the same query block.
You can export a conversational analytics agent's answer , including text, visualizations, tables, and...
You can export a conversational analytics agent's answer , including text, visualizations, tables, and citations, to a PDF or CSV file. This feature is generally available (GA).
ADBC driver for Power BI is now generally available
The Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC) driver for the Databricks connector for Power BI is now generally available. ADBC is the default driver for new connections in Power BI Desktop and the Power BI service. See Configure ADBC or ODBC driver for Power BI .
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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 .
October 2026
Agent API: preset renamed to effort This is a naming change only. Effort levels keep the same models, prompts, tools, limits, and pricing. Version pinning and frozen configurations continue to work as before. preset is still accepted as a deprecated alias, and responses return both fields. See Effort .
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
Agent API: effort level updates and the ultra-preview effort level These effort level changes were not listed in earlier changelog entries. Each line names the current version. Earlier versions stay available as pinned versions . fast ( fast@2026-10-16.0 ): falls back to openai/gpt-5.6-luna when openai/gpt-6-luna is unavailable.
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 .
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 .