February 19th, 2026

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