February 19th, 2026

Venice.ai Change Log - February 5, 2026 - February 19, 2026

Claude Sonnet 4.6 Now Available on Venice

Anthropic's latest Claude Sonnet model is now live on Venice. This model brings improved capabilities across reasoning, coding, and conversation at competitive pricing — available to all users.

Here's a selection of everything we shipped over the past weeks.

New Models

The following models have been added to Venice app & API:

New Models

  • Claude Opus 4.6 — Anthropic's Opus-tier model with 1M token context window and strong performance across coding, analysis, and complex reasoning. Now available to all users

  • Claude Sonnet 4.6 — Anthropic's latest Sonnet with 1M token context, adaptive reasoning, and code performance approaching Opus at Sonnet pricing. Available to all users

  • GLM 5 — Zhipu AI's latest-generation text model, now available on Venice via DeepInfra. Available to all users

  • GLM 4.7 Flash Heretic — Uncensored, unfiltered text model from Zhipu AI with 128K context window. Available to all users

  • MiniMax 2.5 — Text model from MiniMax with multi-turn conversation and strategic reasoning capabilities. Available to all users

Model Updates

  • GLM 4.7 — Reasoning mode now enabled, supporting chain-of-thought processing. 128K context window

  • Nano Banana Pro — Now includes built-in prompt enhancement for image generation (Pro users)

App

General Updates

  • Aspect Ratio Selection — New aspect ratio picker added to image and video generation

  • Inpainting Settings — New settings panel with controls for inpainting edits

  • Annual Price Increase Banner — Banner notifying users of upcoming annual pricing changes

  • Video Studio Link — Added a direct navigation link to Video Studio

  • Favorite Models — Save models as favorites for quick access in the model picker

  • Image Paste in Video Studio — Paste images directly into Video Studio from your clipboard

  • Drag-and-Drop Images — Drag and drop images into Video Studio or chat

  • Video Variants — Generate variant versions of existing videos

  • Clear All Button — New "Clear All" button to reset current selections

  • Multi-Shot Video — Create videos with multiple scenes in a single prompt

  • Chat Annotations — Inline annotations now appear alongside chat responses

  • Chat Onboarding — Step-by-step walkthrough for new users on first visit to chat

  • Video Studio Walkthrough — Guided tour for new users on first visit to Video Studio

  • Image Input for Prompt Enhancer — Attach reference images when using the video prompt enhancer

  • Category Suggestions — Added category-based suggestions to model or content discovery

  • Preferred Model in Settings — Set a default preferred model from the Settings page

  • Multimodal Image Loader — Upload images alongside text prompts in multimodal chat

Wallet and Payments

  • 3D Secure for Past-Due Payments — Payment retries on past-due invoices now support 3D Secure authentication

  • 3D Secure for Subscription Upgrades — Subscription upgrade payments now support 3D Secure authentication

Mobile Web

  • Video Studio on Mobile — Video studio link is now visible and accessible on mobile web PWA.

Mobile App

  • Video-to-Video Generation — New video-to-video mode allows uploading an existing video as input for generation

  • Favorite Models — Star models to add them to a new Favorites section in the model selector

  • Favorites Search — Search bar added to the Favorites tab in the model selector

  • Memoria — On-device memory system that stores context locally on your device between conversations

  • Auto-Generate Memories Toggle — New setting to enable or disable automatic memory generation from conversations

API

  • Image Generation Tool — Image generation is now available as a tool in chat completions requests.

  • Multi-Prompt Video Inference — Video inference requests now support multiple prompts in a single call.

  • Video Inference End Image — New end_image_url parameter for video inference requests to specify a target end frame.

  • Image Model Prompt Enhancer Field — Model listing responses now include hasBuiltInPromptEnhancer on image models.

  • Image Generation Simple Mode — New simpleMode parameter added to image generation requests.

  • Prompt Enhancement Rate Limits — New prompt_enhance rate limit type for prompt enhancement requests.

  • Image Request Field — New image field added to the request schema for image-related endpoints.

Fixes and Improvements

  • Improved prompt input bar to auto-expand as the user types

  • Updated model cards in the model picker to support collapsing

  • Improved removed the enhance prompt toggle from the interface

  • Added error messages when a response stream fails

  • Updated pricing for the PixVerse v5.6 video model

  • Updated Pro badges and icons to be visible to signed-out visitors

  • Updated Simple mode to hide model name labels

  • Updated web search results in chat to support collapsing

  • Improved NSFW video filtering in the social feed

  • Improved restored the Billing History section in account settings

  • Improved redesigned the retry payment flow for past-due subscriptions with clearer status and actions

  • Improved wallet reconnection by skipping the Sign-In With Ethereum step for previously authenticated wallets

  • Fixed loading dots persisting in auto mode

  • Added loading indicators to the Clip library while content loads

  • Improved search to include conversations inside folders in results

  • Fixed conversation folders section to be scrollable when the list exceeds the visible area

  • Improved search to hide folder headers and show only matching conversations

  • Added file size error handling for audio and video uploads that exceed the allowed limit

  • Fixed video model sub-tabs to be horizontally scrollable in the model selector

  • Improved expanded image editing API access to free-tier users

  • Increased rate limits for unauthenticated API users

  • Updated pricing to tiered model for requests exceeding standard context length

  • Updated Opus model requests to use tiered pricing