Changelog

Gemini 3.8 Flash is now the Gemini option on the Pro quality tier. It launched today at the same price as its predecessors, and Google's own launch numbers put it ahead of 3.7 Flash on every published axis - software engineering, terminal coding, and multi-step reasoning. In our own SVG drawing benchmark it is measurably the strongest Gemini Flash yet.

It also costs you fewer credits than 3.6 Flash did. Google discounted this rate card after we first added 3.6 Flash, and our pricing had not caught up, so 3.6 Flash was charging roughly double what it should have. That is corrected: every Gemini Flash model now bills at the real rate.

If you had 3.6 Flash selected on a chat, it keeps working and stays on that chat - nothing you pinned has moved. It is simply no longer offered in the picker for new selections.

The cheap-and-fast tier is unchanged. Gemini 3 Flash is still the default there, and still the cheapest way to build.

Grok 4.6 is now the Grok option on the Pro quality tier, in place of Grok 4.5. xAI prices the two identically and calls 4.6 "the most intelligent and fastest model we've built" - and in our own SVG drawing benchmark the difference is visible: where 4.5 famously spent 668 tokens barely attempting the task, 4.6 actually engages with it.

If you had Grok 4.5 selected on a chat, it keeps working and stays on that chat - nothing you pinned has moved. It is simply no longer offered in the picker for new selections.

GLM 5.3 is now the GLM option on the cheap-and-fast tier, in place of GLM 5.2. Z.ai prices the two identically, and 5.3 is the newer and stronger model - Z.ai's own measurements show it doing markedly better agentic coding work while spending *fewer* output tokens than 5.2 at every reasoning-effort level, which on a reasoning model means the same work tends to cost you less.

It also brings a real reasoning-effort dial (low / high / max), which the Intelligence setting now drives.

If you had GLM 5.2 selected on a chat, it keeps working and stays on that chat - nothing you pinned has moved. It is simply no longer offered in the picker for new selections.

GPT-5.6 Luna is now available on the cheap-and-fast tier. OpenAI cut its price fivefold today - to $0.20 in / $1.20 out per million tokens - which makes Luna the cheapest model in the picker, below even Gemini 3 Flash. In our SVG drawing benchmark it lands right beside Gemini 3 Flash in capability, with a reasoning-effort dial that responds cleanly to the Intelligence setting.

We also passed today's OpenAI price cuts for GPT-5.6 Sol and GPT-5.6 Terra straight through - the same work now costs you fewer credits on all three.

Gemini 3 Flash remains the tier default.

You can now connect email services like MailerLite, SendGrid, Mailchimp, Klaviyo, and Postmark to a domain managed by Playcode.

These services verify your domain with DKIM records: CNAME records whose target contains an underscore, such as litesrv._domainkey.mlsend.com. Playcode's DNS editor rejected those targets as invalid, which blocked email authentication. Underscores are now accepted in CNAME, ALIAS, NS, and MX targets, so you can add the records exactly as your email service shows them.

The app now opens in your browser's language on your first visit - all ten languages, including the sign-in page. On the website, the language switcher now also lives in the top menu (next to Pricing on desktop, inside the menu on phones), and if the site isn't in your language, a small note offers the switch in your own language.

Also fixed on phones: on some Android screens the page could grow slightly wider than the display, which pushed the menu button half off the edge. The menu stays put now, and a new account button next to it takes you straight to sign-in - or to your projects if you're already signed in.

Claude Fable 5.1 is now the default model on the Ultra tier, replacing Claude Fable 5. It is Anthropic's most capable model, tuned for the hardest reasoning and long agent sessions - and it comes with a real cost improvement: reading cached context is 4x cheaper than on Fable 5. In practice that is most of what a long coding session pays for, so the deeper into a project you are, the more you save.

Token prices are unchanged. Claude Fable 5 remains available in the model picker if you have it selected.

Attaching files used to mean hitting a small target inside the chat box. Now the whole editor catches your files:

• Drop anywhere in the chat - the panel lights up while you drag, and

the file attaches to your message.

• Drop an image straight onto your page. Drag it over the preview and

the element under your cursor highlights - release, and the image lands in the composer aimed at that exact spot. Press Enter and the AI places it there.

• Drop on Home to start a new project with the file already attached.
• While you drag, the sidebar shows your project's file tree, so you

can also drop a file straight into a folder.

Every drop answers visibly: the file flies to where it landed, and if you drop somewhere that can't take files, a short note points you to the chat or the file tree. A missed drop never navigates the page away or loses what you typed.

Publishing asked the wrong question about who you are. If you were a workspace admin opening a project a teammate had created, the Publish button appeared and looked ready - but pressing it did nothing at all. No progress, no message, no explanation. Only the person who originally created the project could publish it.

The button was reading your team permissions, while the publish action behind it was still checking whether you personally created the project. Both now read the same rule: if you can manage the project, you can publish it. Unpublish was affected in the same way and is fixed too.

Nothing changes for personal projects, and nobody gained access they did not already have - editors and viewers are unchanged.

Closing every panel in the editor used to leave a blank screen with no visible way back - it could look like your project was gone. It never was: your work is always saved.

Now the editor keeps its header with the project menu at all times, and an empty workspace shows the AI prompt plus one-click buttons to reopen Preview, AI Chat, and the other panels. Asking the AI from there opens the chat with the answer. And if a saved project somehow ends up with no panels at all, it now opens with the standard layout instead of a blank screen.