Releasesby GlyphOctober 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 ...
Also shipped Oct 17, 2026Perplexity in October 2026 →
Workers, Cloudflare CLI - Test Cron Triggers with Local Explorer
Local Explorer can now send one-off Cron Trigger invocations to a Worker's scheduled() handler during local development. This removes the need to construct request URLs when testing handler behavior. Start your local development server with cf dev , wrangler dev , or the Cloudflare Vite plugin .
AI Gateway logs now show session affinity
AI Gateway logs now have a Sessions view that groups requests into sessions and shows how session affinity routed each one. Each row shows the coding agent or app that ran the session, such as Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor, along with its cost, models, providers, and how much of its input was cached across every turn.
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 now available on AI Gateway
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 is now available on AI Gateway . DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 is a minor update to DeepSeek V4.1 Flash that improves reasoning, coding, agentic tasks, and image understanding. The coding gains show up in terminal work and in building and editing whole repositories, and the agentic gains in multi-step automation.
Request a higher workspace role
Workspace viewers and editors can now request a higher role from the People tab. Viewers can ask for editor or admin access, and editors for admin access, each with an optional reason. You can withdraw a request while it is pending. Workspace admins and owners approve or deny it. Admin access requires a paid workspace plan.
Jump to your last chat in the desktop app
In the Lovable desktop app , tap Ctrl+Tab to switch to the chat you were in before. Hold Ctrl and press Tab to pick from your recent chats instead, with the chat you are in first. The shortcut uses Ctrl on macOS as well.
Post-training: Muse Spark Open
meta-models/Muse-Spark-Open-816B-A42B is available for post-training : LoRA training on B200-SXM , a 159,744-token training context, a 163,840-token generator context, rank up to 32, and one adapter session per resource. See Supported models .
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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
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
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
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 .