Releasesby GlyphOctober 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 .
Also shipped Oct 22, 2026Perplexity in October 2026 →
Trace and evaluate Cursor agents with Langfuse, powered by ClickHouse
Users can now connect Cursor to Langfuse to trace agent turns and analyze model and tool calls, with ClickHouse providing the underlying analytics infrastructure.
The AI.TRANSLATE function is generally available
The AI.TRANSLATE function is now generally available in BigQuery. It supports both standard Neural Machine Translation and Translation LLM capabilities for text string translation.
Replit Monitoring Agent: Your very own software engineering team
Replit Monitoring Agent is an autonomous tool that investigates production alerts, identifies causes, applies fixes, and deploys them to production for internal apps.
Microsoft Entra ID connector is available in Beta
The Microsoft Entra ID connector is now in beta for Databricks Lakeflow Connect. It supports incremental ingestion of users, groups, and audit logs using OAuth machine-to-machine authentication.
You can configure Direct VPC ingress for Cloud Run instances ( Preview )
Direct VPC ingress is now in preview for Cloud Run. This feature allows instances on a VPC network to use ephemeral private IP addresses for communication with other VPC resources.
Gemini Enterprise: Single-user quota limits
Gemini Enterprise administrators can now set single-user quota limits to prevent individual users from consuming the entire subscription quota pool. This feature is generally available.
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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
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
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
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.
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
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 .
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 .