# Changelog

New features, integrations, and improvements to AI Data Stream

## October 2026

Improvement Oct 11, 2026

### AI crawler counts now exclude failed fetches

Vulnerability scanners routinely borrow AI crawler names while probing for `.env`, key and config files, and on some sites those probes outnumber real crawler traffic several times over. The Cloudflare connection now separates the two: the dashboard widget and the AI crawler tools count successful fetches (2xx/3xx) as requests, and report 4xx/5xx responses as a separate failed total with a note on what they usually are. Bandwidth counts successful fetches only. Ask the chat for AI crawler paths with status 400 and above to see exactly what the scanners asked for.

[Read more](/blog/most-of-your-ai-crawler-traffic-isnt-ai/)

Integration Oct 10, 2026

### DeepSeek Flash with thinking and effort levels

DeepSeek in AI Data Stream now runs on DeepSeek Flash (V4.1-Flash), DeepSeek’s current model, with thinking on and a Low / High / Max effort picker in chat, the same control Claude and GPT users already have. The old “Chat” and “Reasoner” entries are retired: DeepSeek dropped those names with V4, and anyone still on them is migrated to Flash automatically. Pricing is DeepSeek’s published rate, charged to your own key: $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.60 per million output tokens off-peak, double that at peak hours.

[Read more](/blog/deepseek-flash-thinking-and-effort-levels/)

Improvement Oct 10, 2026

### Gemini 3.7 Flash retired

Google has deprecated Gemini 3.7 Flash and now routes every request for it to Gemini 3.8 Flash, so the 3.7 Flash entry has been removed from the model picker. Anyone who still had 3.7 Flash selected is migrated to 3.8 Flash automatically. Pricing is unchanged: both models share the same introductory rate ($0.75 / $3.75 per million tokens through 31 December 2026, then $1.50 / $7.50). Gemini 3.8 Flash remains the recommended Google model.

Integration Oct 8, 2026

### Claude Haiku 5.5 now available

Anthropic’s new Claude Haiku 5.5 is now in the model picker as the fastest Claude option. It costs $0.10/$0.50 per million tokens for prompts up to 100,000 tokens, around 90% less than Haiku 4.5, and it is the first Haiku with adjustable effort levels and a 1M-token context window. Background tasks on Anthropic providers (conversation titles, annotation and knowledge-base summaries, AI prompt generation) now run on it automatically. Haiku 4.5 stays available as the previous generation.

[Read more](/blog/claude-haiku-5-5-now-available/)

Improvement Oct 3, 2026

### Starter annotation categories and permanent deletion

Every team now has five starter annotation categories - Marketing Campaign, Site Change, Content Update, Product Launch and Bug Fix - so anyone with write access can add annotations straight away instead of waiting for the team owner to create a category. Teams that already had categories keep exactly what they had. Deleting an annotation still archives it, and you can now remove archived annotations for good with **Delete permanently** in the Archived view. The Team Settings tabs and the account settings menu are now translated into French and German.

New Feature Oct 2, 2026

### The AI now answers questions about AI Data Stream itself

Ask the AI how to do something in AI Data Stream - connect Search Console, add an AI provider key, invite a teammate, schedule a report - and it now reads the documentation before answering. Answers use the exact button and menu names you see, in your language, and link to the relevant section of the docs. If you ask for data from a platform that isn’t connected to your property yet, such as Meta Ads, the AI tells you which plans include it and how to connect it instead of just saying the data is unavailable. The same documentation is available to your own AI client through the AI Data Stream connector. We also checked every documentation page against the app and corrected outdated steps and labels in English, French and German.

## September 2026

Integration Sep 29, 2026

### Claude Sonnet 5.5 now available

Anthropic’s new Claude Sonnet 5.5 is now the default Anthropic model in AI Data Stream. It costs the same as Sonnet 5 at $2/$10 per million tokens but generates 30%+ faster and lands within two points of Opus 5.5 on real professional work. Sonnet 5 stays available as the previous generation so you can compare. Sonnet 4.6 has been retired; if it was your default, you move to Sonnet 5.5 automatically.

[Read more](/blog/claude-sonnet-5-5-now-available/)

Integration Sep 23, 2026

### OpenAI GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna now available

GPT-6 Sol ($2 / $10 per million input / output tokens) and GPT-6 Luna ($0.10 / $0.50) are now in the model picker. They replace GPT-5.6 Terra and GPT-5.6 Luna, which have been retired: if either was your default, it now uses GPT-6 Sol or GPT-6 Luna automatically, at a lower price. GPT-5.6 Sol stays as the previous generation, GPT-6 Astra remains the premium option, and GPT-6 Sol is now the default for newly added OpenAI providers. Both new models offer every reasoning effort level from Low to Max.

[Read more](/blog/openai-gpt-6-sol-and-luna-now-available/)

Integration Sep 22, 2026

### Claude Opus 5.5 now available

Anthropic’s new Claude Opus 5.5 is now the most capable Anthropic option at standard pricing, one tier below the premium Fable 5.1 — 20% cheaper than Opus 5 at $4/$20 per million tokens, with cache reads down 60%, while performing close to Fable 5.1. Opus 5 stays available as the previous generation so you can compare. Opus 4.8 has been retired; if it was your default, you move to Opus 5.5 automatically.

[Read more](/blog/claude-opus-5-5-now-available/)

Integration Sep 20, 2026

### OpenAI GPT-6 Astra now available

GPT-6 Astra, OpenAI’s new flagship, is now in the model picker as a premium option at $10 / $50 per million input / output tokens - 2.5 times GPT-5.6 Sol at its promotional $4 / $20, with cached input at $1. Nothing has been retired: Sol, Terra and Luna all stay, and your default model does not change. Astra and the GPT-5.6 family now offer extra-high and max reasoning effort levels, the chat effort picker starts from the team default you saved for each provider, and our OpenAI integration has moved to OpenAI’s Responses API so reasoning effort applies fully while the model is calling your data tools.

[Read more](/blog/openai-gpt-6-astra-now-available/)

New Feature Sep 18, 2026

### Jev by TypeSafe AI joins the app — a System One model for AI traffic classification (beta)

AI Data Stream now runs a second kind of model alongside the frontier LLMs on your own keys: **Jev**, the first System One model from [TypeSafe AI](https://typesafe.ai/). Jev never generates text. You send it a state and typed questions, and it returns a choice from your options or a yes/no probability, with a calibrated confidence, in about a second. It runs on our key, not your BYOK LLM key, and the blog post explains what a System One model is, how it differs from an LLM, and how we validated it.

Its first job is an experimental, switch-it-on-yourself beta for Pro and Business teams. GA4’s new “AI Assistant” channel only catches visits that arrive with an `ai-assistant` medium. Perplexity, Copilot and untagged ChatGPT links land in Unassigned instead, next to your own subdomains, link scanners and referrer spam. When the beta is on, every traffic-source lookup gives those rows a second opinion from Jev.

-   **A real channel for Referral and Unassigned rows:** AI assistant, self-referral, link scanner or tool, referrer spam, industry referral, search, social, email, offline or campaign tag — with a confidence score on every row
-   **An `is_ai_assistant` flag** your AI can total, so “how many sessions came from AI” finally includes the ones GA4 missed
-   **GA4 stays the source of truth:** below a confidence threshold the GA4 grouping is kept and the model’s guess is only noted; if the model is unavailable you get plain GA4 results, never an error
-   **Judged once, cached 30 days** per source, so the extra second only applies to the first lookup of each source
-   **On/off in Team Settings → Beta Features** (team owner, paid plans). Off by default. With it off, your AI mentions it once when your data has rows it could help with, with a link to the toggle

[Read more](/blog/adding-system-one-models/)

Integration Sep 15, 2026

### Cloudflare integration — AI crawlers and edge traffic

Cloudflare is now a connected data source on Pro and Business plans. If your site sits behind Cloudflare, one read-only API token gives your AI the view from the edge: which AI crawlers are reading your site, what they fetch, and how much of your total traffic never reaches Google Analytics.

-   **AI crawler visibility:** Requests and bandwidth per bot per day — GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, CCBot, Bytespider and more — plus the pages they fetch most and the URLs they keep requesting that no longer exist
-   **AI referrals:** Human visitors arriving from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Copilot and Gemini, by day or landing page (needs a paid Cloudflare plan on the zone)
-   **Edge traffic overview:** Whole-site requests, page views, unique visitors, bandwidth, cache hit rate and blocked threats — every request counted, including the ones ad blockers and consent banners hide from GA4
-   **Dashboard widget:** Daily requests and page views, the AI crawlers seen at the edge, top countries and status codes
-   **2 new skills:** AI Crawler Visibility, and Edge vs Analytics Gap (Cloudflare + GA4)
-   **Read-only:** A token with a single permission, Zone → Analytics → Read, scoped to one zone

[Read more](/blog/cloudflare-now-available/)

Improvement Sep 12, 2026

### Google Ads now connects with one click

Google Ads connects with **Connect with Google** again: sign in, pick the account, done. Google retired API developer tokens on 9 September 2026, which removes the manager account, the token application and the wait for Google’s review that made Google Ads our most involved setup. Existing connections keep working unchanged, and service accounts remain available for agencies. See [Connecting Data Sources](/docs/connecting-data-sources/#google-ads).

Integration Sep 6, 2026

### Gemini 3.8 Flash now available

Google’s Gemini 3.8 Flash is now the recommended Google model in AI Data Stream. It keeps the same introductory pricing as 3.7 Flash ($0.75 / $3.75 per million tokens through 31 December 2026, then $1.50 / $7.50) and brings better multi-step tool use, which is exactly what our data analysis relies on. Gemini 3.7 Flash stays in the picker as the previous-generation option. Gemini 2.5 Flash has been retired and anyone still using it is migrated to 3.8 Flash automatically. Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite remains the cheapest option and is not migrated.

[Read more](/blog/gemini-3-8-flash-now-available/)

Integration Sep 1, 2026

### Claude Fable 5.1 now available

Claude Fable 5.1 is now in the model picker at the same price as Fable 5 ($10 / $50 per million tokens) — but cache reads drop from $1 to $0.25 per million, which is where most of the cost of a long conversation goes. Anthropic reports better long-session reasoning and notably better reading of dense charts and tables in PDFs. Fable 5 stays available as the previous generation, and Sonnet 5 is still the default. Fable 5.1 needs 30-day data retention on your Anthropic account, same as Fable 5.

[Read more](/blog/claude-fable-5-1-now-available/)

## August 2026

Integration Aug 26, 2026

### Meta Ads integration

Meta Ads is now available as a connected data source on Pro and Business plans. Connect an ad account and ask your AI about Facebook and Instagram campaign performance — spend, results, audiences, placements, and individual creatives, with GA4 as the verification baseline when both are connected.

-   **4 data tools:** Campaign performance, performance over time, audience and placement breakdowns, and per-ad performance
-   **4 new skills:** Meta Ads Account Audit, Meta Tracking Health Check, Meta Lead Attribution Check, and Meta vs Google Ads Channel Mix
-   **Dashboard widget:** Spend, impressions, clicks, reach, and top campaigns at a glance
-   **Read-only:** OAuth with the read-only ads\_read permission — we never create or modify campaigns

[Read more](/blog/meta-ads-now-available/)

New Feature Aug 18, 2026

### External AI access (MCP)

Connect your own AI assistant to your AIdata properties. Every team member gets a personal MCP URL that works in claude.ai, Claude Desktop, and any MCP-compatible client - covered by the AI subscription you already have, no API key needed.

-   **One personal URL, all your properties:** spans every property you can access, across all your teams, with your permissions enforced per property
-   **Full data toolkit:** the same analytics, ads, CRM, and annotation tools as the built-in chat, plus your skills - in the prompts menu and runnable by the AI itself
-   **Writes where you’re allowed:** your AI can create and update annotations and save team memories, attributed to you - everything else is read-only
-   **Off by default:** team owners enable External AI Access in Team Settings (Pro and Business); disabling it instantly cuts external access, and you can regenerate your personal URL at any time

[Read more](/blog/connect-your-own-ai-mcp/)

Integration Aug 16, 2026

### Core Web Vitals with competitor comparison

Core Web Vitals is now a connected data source on **every plan, including Free** — real-user speed data from Google’s Chrome UX Report, with no account to link and no API key to create. Because the data is public, you can track competitors’ vitals right next to your own.

-   **Dashboard widget:** All four metrics (LCP, INP, CLS, TTFB) at once — six months of weekly trends, phone/desktop toggle, and green “good zone” bands
-   **Competitor comparison:** Track up to 5 competitor sites and see whose line is lower
-   **AI analysis:** Ask your AI about any site’s vitals history, trends, and how you stack up against the competition
-   **Zero setup:** Enable the connection, confirm your website address, done

[Read more](/blog/core-web-vitals-now-available/)

Integration Aug 15, 2026

### Gemini 3.7 Flash and 3.1 Pro now available

Google’s Gemini lineup in AI Data Stream has been refreshed: Gemini 3.7 Flash replaces the Gemini 3 Flash preview as the recommended model, Gemini 3.1 Pro replaces the retired Gemini 3 Pro preview, and Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite joins as the fastest option. Anyone on the old preview models is migrated automatically. Gemini 3.7 Flash has introductory pricing of $0.75 / $3.75 per million tokens through 31 December 2026 (then $1.50 / $7.50). The Gemini 2.5 models stay available, including 2.5 Flash Lite as the cheapest option.

[Read more](/blog/gemini-3-7-flash-now-available/)

Improvement Aug 12, 2026

### AI model prices drop across both providers

Good news for your API bills. Anthropic has made Claude Sonnet 5’s $2 / $10 per million token launch price permanent, cancelling the increase to Sonnet 4.6 rates planned for 1 September 2026. OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 prices on 30 July: Terra is 20% cheaper ($2 / $12 per million tokens) and Luna 80% cheaper ($0.20 / $1.20); Sol is unchanged. Because AI Data Stream is bring-your-own-key, these savings reach you directly - nothing to change on your account.

Integration Aug 9, 2026

### LinkedIn Ads integration

LinkedIn Ads is now available as a connected data source on Pro and Business plans. Connect an ad account and ask your AI about B2B campaign performance — including LinkedIn’s unique professional demographics: which job functions, seniorities, industries, and companies your ads actually reach.

-   **4 data tools:** Campaign performance, performance over time, professional audience breakdowns, and per-ad performance
-   **3 new skills:** LinkedIn Ads Account Audit, LinkedIn B2B Audience Insights, and LinkedIn Lead Attribution Check
-   **Read-only:** OAuth with read-only reporting scopes — we never create or modify campaigns

[Read more](/blog/linkedin-ads-now-available/)

## July 2026

Integration Jul 28, 2026

### Google Tag Manager integration

Google Tag Manager is now available as a connected data source on Pro and Business plans. Connect a container and ask your AI to audit tags, triggers, and variables — and debug why tracking broke by pairing GTM with GA4.

-   **6 data tools:** Containers, tags, triggers, variables, entity detail, and workspace status
-   **3 new skills:** GTM Container Audit, GTM Change Monitor, and Conversion Tracking Debugger
-   **Read-only:** OAuth with a read-only scope — we never modify or publish your container

[Read more](/blog/google-tag-manager-now-available/)

Integration Jul 25, 2026

### Claude Opus 5 now available

Anthropic’s new frontier model, Claude Opus 5, is now the flagship Anthropic option — same price as Opus 4.8, with major gains on agentic and data-analysis tasks. Opus 4.8 stays available as the previous generation so you can compare. Opus 4.7 has been retired; if it was your default, you move to Opus 5 automatically.

[Read more](/blog/claude-opus-5-now-available/)

Improvement Jul 25, 2026

### Report templates are now Skills

Report templates have a new name: **skills**. A skill is a reusable analysis recipe - expert methodology built in - and running one produces a report, exactly as before. Nothing about how they work has changed; existing templates, schedules, and report history all carry over untouched.

-   **Skills catalog:** 19 ready-made skills across audits, monitors, analysis, CRM, and ecommerce
-   **Same reports:** Running a skill still produces a shareable, schedulable report
-   **Scheduled Reports unchanged:** Schedules keep their name and keep delivering reports by email

Improvement Jul 22, 2026

### Support Access

Support can now only sign in to your account with your explicit permission. The new **Settings → Support Access** page puts you in control:

-   **Off by default:** Nobody can access your account until you grant it, confirmed with your password
-   **Auto-expiry:** A grant lasts 7 days and can be revoked at any time
-   **Full transparency:** Every support sign-in and sign-out is recorded and shown to you on the page
-   **Secrets stay secret:** API keys and connection credentials are never visible in support sessions

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Source: https://aidata.stream/changelog/