Changelog

Two new thinking models are now selectable in the chat model picker, talking to DeepSeek's official API directly:

• DeepSeek V4 Pro - frontier-level reasoning with a 1M-token context window. Strong at code, math, and long multi-step tasks. A serious daily driver. Text-only.
• DeepSeek V4 Flash - the same reasoning shape, tuned for speed and high-throughput work. 1M context, text-only.

Heads-up: these models do not see images. Pick a vision-capable model (Sonnet, Gemini, GPT-4o) if your task needs to read a screenshot or a PDF.

Shipping a real online product today takes too many things. An editor over here. Hosting over there. A separate database, a separate domain registrar, a CI pipeline, an SSL renewal, a monitoring dashboard. Five vendors, five bills, five places to keep in sync.

Today we're launching Playcode Cloud as its own product. Hosting, a real database, and a deploy pipeline - in one workspace. The cloud, designed for the apps you build with AI.

Three products in one

• Hosting. Always-on production, custom domain, automatic HTTPS, real TCP/UDP ports. Replaces what you would otherwise pay Vercel, Netlify, or Heroku for.
• Database. A real database with tables, queries, transactions. Persists forever, survives every restart. Replaces what you would otherwise pay Supabase, Neon, or RDS for.
• Deploy pipeline. Per-project git server, automatic snapshots, one-click rollback for code and data together. Replaces what you would otherwise wire up with GitHub Actions, CircleCI, and backup scripts.

Rollback your whole project - code AND database - one click

Most platforms snapshot your code. We snapshot the whole machine - your app AND your database AND your files. Bad migration corrupted production? Schema change you regret? Customer says something broke three days ago? One click, both code and data restored. Replit is the only other platform we know of that does this end-to-end. Almost nobody else.

Plus an automatic safety net: before every Publish, we snapshot live production. If the deploy fails its health check, we roll back automatically.

What's NOT yet built (so you know)

• Auto-scaling a single app across multiple machines - manual horizontal scaling supported today.
• Multi-region failover - single EU region (Germany) today.
• Bidirectional GitHub.com mirror - our own git server handles full git semantics internally; ZIP export available any time.

Playcode Cloud is in beta and included with every paid plan. Pro gets 3 cloud projects, Business gets 5. Read the full story on /cloud.

Say "make the hero a video" and the AI generates an 8-second cinematic loop with Google Veo 3 - no separate tool, no stock footage, no upload step. Works from a prompt or from an image you already have on the page. The agent verifies the output, extracts a poster frame for instant-load, compresses for web, and swaps in a self-playing muted looping background in one pass.

New

• Video generation built in - Google Veo 3.1 Fast is the default for production output, Veo 3.1 Lite for rapid drafts, Veo 3.1 Standard for polished hero content. Ask for a video and you get one.
• Image-to-video animation - Turn any hero image into a moving version. Cherry blossoms drift, water ripples, clouds pass - the photo you already made comes alive.
• Poster frames + web compression, automatic - Every generated video is auto-optimized down from 20+ MB to ~3 MB for fast loading, and gets a poster frame extracted so your site shows something instantly while the video buffers.
• Understand any video - The agent can read a video and tell you what's on screen (duration, resolution, subjects, mood). Useful for verifying the output matches your prompt before shipping.
• Trim, resize, strip audio, convert format - New video editing capabilities: cut a clip shorter, resize for web, mute audio for hero loops, or convert between MP4 and WebM.

Improvements

• Smarter hero prompts by default - The AI now defaults to static-framed ambient motion (wind, water, drifting light) instead of camera moves. Produces cleaner loops with no glitchy mid-clip cuts.
• Silent by default - Hero videos no longer come with unsolicited audio. Autoplay-muted is the norm anyway, and audio is available when you actually need it (tutorials, reels).
• Image generation picks the right shape - When you ask for a hero image, the AI now uses 16:9 by default (not square), and knows to match the aspect if you're about to animate it.

Billed per second of output - the AI tells you the approximate cost before each video call and pauses to confirm before anything expensive. No surprise charges.

Short version: Pro with Claude now costs a lot less to run in real conversations. We noticed that follow-up messages weren't reusing the cached context from earlier messages the way they should have been, so each new turn was paying to re-process a bunch of the same tokens. We rebuilt how we hand context to the model and the cache now holds across turns, across chats, and during sub-agent runs.

Improvements

• Follow-up messages in Pro chats are ~10x cheaper - The second (and every later) message in a Claude Pro chat now hits the prompt cache instead of paying full price. In our tests a typical 17K-token follow-up dropped from ~1.2 credits to ~0.1 credits
• Starting a new chat is cheaper too - The system prompt is now cached across chats, so the first message of a fresh Claude chat reuses the cache from your previous conversation (within a 5-minute window) instead of paying full price for the system prompt every time
• Smart mode sub-agents benefit as well - When Smart mode delegates code work to an Opus sub-agent, that sub-agent now uses the same caching wins: system prompt shared across delegations, history cached within a run. No change for Gemini Flash (Google handles caching server-side, nothing for us to tune)

No action needed - it just works. If you're curious about the raw numbers, the credit counter in Usage History now shows the difference directly: first Claude message in a chat is typical, every follow-up is usually 10x smaller.

Anthropic just released Claude Opus 4.7 - sharper reasoning, better code, longer 1M-token context. It's available today in Settings -> AI Model. We're keeping Claude Opus 4.6 as the default Quality model: the sticker price per token is the same, but 4.7 uses a new tokenizer that consumes roughly 45% more tokens per request on average (and about 3x on image-heavy work), so real-world cost per run is noticeably higher. Pick 4.7 when reasoning matters more than cost - your call.

New

• Claude Opus 4.7 in the model picker - Anthropic's latest Opus with stronger reasoning, better code output, and 1M-token context. Opt-in from Settings -> AI Model
• Two experimental models, opt-in from Settings -> AI Model - Try Qwen 3.6 Plus (1M context, multimodal, deep thinking mode) for very large projects, or GLM 5.1 (open-weight reasoning) when you want a strong but budget-friendly option

You no longer have to wait for the AI to finish before sending your next message. Type or speak while it's working, and the AI will see your message and adapt on the fly - no restart, no lost progress. Change your mind mid-build? Just say so.

New

• Send messages during AI processing - The AI picks up your follow-up instructions at the next step and adjusts its plan naturally. Send as many messages as you want, even while it's writing files
• Hold-to-record voice - Press and hold the microphone to record, release to send. Drag up to lock the recording for longer messages. Drag left to cancel. Just like Telegram
• Voice shortcut (Alt+V) - Press once to start recording, press again to stop and send. Works anywhere in the editor
• Auto-send voice messages - Voice recordings are now transcribed and sent automatically by default. Toggle in Preferences > Transcription

Improvements

• Cleaner chat input - Input stays focused after sending, so you can keep typing immediately. Escape cancels voice recording
• Smoother scrolling - Chat automatically scrolls to the latest message as the AI works
• Polished toolbar - Mic, stop, and send buttons now coexist naturally. The stop button only appears when the AI is running and you're not recording

When something goes wrong during a build, you used to see a generic "Processing failed" message with no clear way to recover. Now you get a clear explanation of what happened and a button to fix it - one click to continue, retry, or add credits.

Improvements

• Clear error messages - Every error now explains what happened in plain language, translated into all 10 supported languages
• One-click recovery - "Continue", "Try again", or "Add credits" buttons appear right where you need them. No more guessing what to do next
• AI timeout protection - If the AI gets stuck overthinking a step, it now automatically stops and lets you continue. Your progress is always saved
• Smoother long conversations - When your conversation gets summarized, you see a clear notice with a Continue button instead of a confusing pause

Some of you ran into a really nasty one: after a long building session, the AI would suddenly reply with jumbled text - bits and pieces of earlier messages, file names, error banners, all stitched together into something that made no sense. Once it started, it usually kept happening on every message in that chat, and the only thing that worked was starting a new chat.

This one was hiding deep in the plumbing and it took a while to track down. It's now fixed, and new replies in every chat will be clean from here on.

We also went back and cleared out the corrupted content from older messages across the database so it can't influence new replies. If you scroll back through an old chat you might see a message or two that looks empty where the garbled text used to be - that's the old corruption being cleaned up, not something new breaking. Your projects, files, and chat history are otherwise untouched.

We're really sorry to anyone who hit this. It was confusing, it wasted your time, and it stayed broken for longer than we'd have liked. Thank you to the people who took the time to report it in chat with screenshots - that's what made it possible to find. If anything still feels off after this update, please ping us and we'll jump on it.

We tuned Smart mode to make the AI feel more like a real designer working on your project. You should notice it right away.

• Cleaner, more polished results. Pages come out looking less like a template and more like something a designer actually thought about - better spacing, hover states, mobile layouts, the small details that make a site feel real.
• Stays focused on what you asked for. The AI is better at making the change you wanted without wandering off and rewriting things you didn't ask it to touch.
• Long building sessions go further. You can keep iterating in the same chat for longer before anything starts to slow down or get confused.
• Stops repeating itself. The AI was sometimes reading the same file two or three times in a single change. We fixed that, so changes are faster and use noticeably fewer credits.

Nothing in your workflow changes. Same chat, same buttons. Just open a project and try a redesign - you should feel the difference on the first turn.

Fixed: Voice Transcription Was Stuck on Russian

When you used the microphone in chat, your voice was being transcribed as Russian no matter what language you actually spoke - so English speakers got back garbled, transliterated text. The default was wrong and was getting saved permanently in your browser, which is why even people who never touched the setting kept seeing it.

Voice transcription now auto-detects your language from the audio. Speak English, Spanish, German, Japanese, anything - it just works. The fix runs across the whole stack, so it applies to every existing user automatically the next time you open the app.

New: Transcription Language Menu

Want to lock voice input to a specific language instead of auto-detecting? There's now a dedicated Preferences → Transcription → Language menu with all 10 supported languages plus Auto-detect. Picking a specific language can improve accuracy if you have a strong accent or if you switch between languages a lot and want voice input to stay consistent.

Heads up: as part of this fix, your chat preferences (selected AI model, custom instructions, open chat tabs) will reset to defaults the first time you open the app after this update. Your projects, files, and chat history are not affected. If you notice anything off, just refresh the page - and if something still feels wrong, ping us in chat and we'll sort it out fast.