Developer Tools & APIs
Claude Opus 4.1 retires on 5 August 2026: migrate to Opus 4.8 now
The claude-opus-4-1-20250805 model ID stops working on 5 August 2026. Here's what to change and why Opus 4.8 is the right target.
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API Developers
7 posts about API Developers from Simon Carter.
Developer Tools & APIs
OpenAI Assistants API is permanently removed on 26 August 2026: here's what you need to do
OpenAI's Assistants API is gone on 26 August 2026. This is a full architectural migration to the Responses API, not a quick endpoint swap.
Developer Tools & APIs
Anthropic is retiring the legacy Claude Workbench and three experimental prompt API endpoints on 17 August 2026
The legacy Workbench and three /v1/experimental/ prompt endpoints shut down 17 August 2026. Here's what to export and what replaces them.
Developer Tools & APIs
Imagen 4 endpoints shut down on 17 August 2026: and the migration is more than a model rename
Imagen 4 model endpoints hard-shut-down 17 August 2026. Migration means switching method, model name, and response parsing.
Developer Tools & APIs
Anthropic is retiring Claude Opus 4.1 on August 5, 2026 — here's what developers need to do
Anthropic has deprecated claude-opus-4-1-20250805 with a retirement date of August 5, 2026. Opus 4.8 is the recommended replacement.
Developer Tools & APIs
OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Luna pricing by 80% and frames it as the start of something bigger
OpenAI drops Luna API prices to $0.20/$1.20 per million tokens and trims Terra by 20%, calling it the beginning of an 'abundance flywheel' strategy.
Developer Tools & APIs
Anthropic Extends Claude Code Usage Boost to August 19 — And Sonnet 5 API Pricing Jumps 50% on September 1
Claude Code Pro/Max limits stay 50% higher through August 19, 2026. Sonnet 5 API intro pricing ends August 31 — and a tokenizer change makes the real cost rise bigger than it looks.