November 2026
Analytics API: credit-usage response update For dataset=credit_usage , responses from /v1/analytics/computer/usage and /v2/analytics/computer/usage currently omit the Credit Source breakdown. Total credit usage and the Model breakdown remain available. If your integration expects a fixed set of breakdowns, update it to read the returned categories list.
Also shipped Nov 2, 2026Perplexity in November 2026 →
Managed warehouse for MLflow (Beta)
Managed warehouse for MLflow is available in Beta, enabling users to view Unity Catalog traces in the MLflow UI without manually choosing a SQL warehouse.
Check out GitHub code without long-lived credentials on self-hosted agents
Self-hosted agents can now use temporary, read-only GitHub App tokens for repository checkout. This eliminates the need to distribute and rotate long-lived SSH keys or personal access tokens across your agent fleet.
Serving tuned Gemini 3.x models on global endpoints
Serving tuned Gemini 3.x models on global endpoints is available in General Availability (GA) . You can copy fine-tuned Gemini 3.x models to the global region using the Model Registry models:copy API, deploy them to global serving endpoints, and send inference requests directly to aiplatform.googleapis.com .
[Launched] Generally Available: Change from virtual network integration to a private endpoint capable network configuration in Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server
You now have greater flexibility in network design for Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server workloads. Now you can change existing VNet-integrated servers from delegated-subnet networking to a private endpoint-capable configuration, enabling secu
[Launched] Generally Available: Restart databases in Azure SQL DB via the Azure portal
You can now restart or fail over databases directly from the Azure portal, including single databases, Hyperscale databases, and databases in elastic pools, without writing scripts against the Rest API or contacting support. Learn more.
Store and recover user sessions with RUM Managed Archive
Datadog RUM Managed Archive allows users to store all ingested RUM sessions and recover them on demand for debugging, incident investigation, and audits.
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November 2026
Decisions API: URL fetching and page freshness Pass a page URL as state with mode: "web_grounding" to fetch its text before searching. The fetched text replaces the URL before search. The response returns the page in fetched_results and search evidence in search_results . Set max_staleness to the maximum page age in seconds since its last crawl.
November 2026
Perplexity added an ultra effort level option to its Agent API, designed for broad research and data-gathering tasks using Claude Opus 5.5, with support for background execution mode.
October 2026
Perplexity updated effort levels in the Agent API, increasing maximum token limits, expanding search step maximums, and updating backend models.
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
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
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 .