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AI APIs change quietly.
Your app finds out loudly.

Model shutdown dates, price changes and new limits, caught on the providers' own pages and dealt to you as cards. One card per change: what changed, when it takes effect, and the official link.

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Gemini API changelog

October 26, 2026

  • Generate Content API storage on by default : New projects using the
  • Generate Content API ( generateContent , streamGenerateContent , and
  • batchGenerateContent ) on the paid tier now store requests by default

Source: Gemini API changelog

THE PROBLEM

The changes that break AI apps are announced on pages nobody checks.

Shutdown dates sit in docs pages

A deprecation notice goes up, and you hear about it when requests start failing.

Prices change from a set date

A new price per million tokens lands on your bill before it lands in your budget.

4 providers, 4 changelogs

Each one publishes changes differently. Keeping up is a part-time job nobody signed up for.

ANATOMY OF A CARD

Everything you need. Nothing you have to read twice.

Every card answers the same four questions, in the same place, every time.

  1. A
    Which deck

    The suit tells you the topic at a glance. ♠ is the API cards deck.

  2. B
    What changed

    One change per card, in plain words. Added lines in green, removed in red.

  3. C
    When

    The date we spotted it, and the date it takes effect.

  4. D
    The official source

    A link to the provider's own page, so you can check it yourself.

AAPI CARDS

Sample · Model deprecations

B[Model name] will be shut down

+ shutdown date: [DATE]
+ recommended replacement: [MODEL]
– no retirement date announced
CSpotted [DATE]DOfficial source

HOW IT WORKS

We read the fine print. You read the cards.

01 · EVERY DAY

We watch the official pages

Deprecation, pricing and changelog pages from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini and Mistral.

02 · WHEN SOMETHING MOVES

Each change becomes a card

Checked against the source, dated, and filed in its deck. Every card gets its own page.

03 · EVERY MONDAY

The week's cards, in one email

Only the decks you chose. A quiet week means no email at all.

LATEST CARDS

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API cards

Gemini API changelog

October 26, 2026

  • Generate Content API storage on by default : New projects using the
  • Generate Content API ( generateContent , streamGenerateContent , and
  • batchGenerateContent ) on the paid tier now store requests by default

Source: Gemini API changelog

API cards

Anthropic API pricing

Added: “Claude Models on Google Cloud (Anthropic managed) billing”

  • This section covers partner-operated cloud platforms, where the cloud provider invoices you. For Anthropic-operated cloud platforms billed…
  • Claude models are available on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Models on Google Cloud (Google managed) . For official pricing, visit:
  • This applies to the Claude API (first-party), Claude Platform on AWS, and Claude Models on Google Cloud (Anthropic managed). On Claude in M…
  • Fast mode provides significantly faster output for Claude Opus 5.5, Claude Opus 5, and Claude Opus 4.8 at premium pricing. Fast mode for Cl…

Source: Anthropic API pricing

API cards

Mistral models overview

Z.ai GLM 5.3 Flash

  • A third-party multimodal model from Z.ai with a 1M-token context window, optimized for agentic workflows and visual coding.
  • v 5.3-flash
  • A general-purpose text embedding model for retrieval and similarity search.

Source: Mistral models overview

API cards

Mistral models overview

Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3

  • Strong transcription and diarization at a competitive price point.
  • Voxtral TTS 3
  • State-of-the-art TTS with zero-shot and professional voice cloning, 9 languages, and streaming.
  • Specialized models for focused domains and task-specific workloads.

Source: Mistral models overview

IN YOUR INBOX

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The subject line tells you how many cards are inside, so a quiet Monday can wait and a big one can't.

Inbox · sample

CardyBud <cards@cardybud.com> · Monday

♠ CardyBud · API cards: 3 cards this week

♠ MODEL RETIREMENT

[Model] shuts down on [DATE]

♠ PRICE CHANGE

[Model] output price changes from [DATE]

♠ NEW LIMIT

[Tier] rate limits updated

THE DECKS

One deck live. More being shuffled.

Each deck is its own weekly email. Tick any upcoming deck when you sign up and we'll tell you the day it launches.

LIVE

API cards

Model deprecations, price changes and limits across the major AI APIs.

SOON

AI search cards

AI search engine updates, crawler policies and AI-visibility tool prices.

SOON

AI plans & prices cards

Price, plan and usage-limit changes for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot and Perplexity.

SOON

AI rules cards

What changed and when: AI Act milestones, UK guidance and AI platform usage policies. Facts, not advice.

SOON

Platform cards

Breaking changes and deprecations in Stripe, Shopify, WhatsApp Business and GitHub APIs.

REFERENCE

Looking something up?

DAILY

AI model shutdown dates

Every upcoming shutdown across OpenAI, Claude, Gemini and Mistral, soonest first, with the replacement.
DAILY

AI API pricing

The official price tables from each provider, checked every day.

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