Changelog
What is new in riven.
Releases, platform updates, and product improvements. Updated as we ship.
A Smoother Path from First Question to Paid Plan
releaseJuly 26, 2026- Creating an account now drops you straight into a working chat — no dead ends between sign-up and your first answer, and guest conversations carry over cleanly.
- Plan names and token allowances now display accurately everywhere, including Team plans, so what you see at checkout is exactly what your account shows.
- New trust pages are live: an expanded Security page covering architecture, tenancy, data handling, and our full subprocessor list, plus honest side-by-side comparisons with Perplexity, ChatGPT, and Claude.
- Support is now one click away in the footer, and we commit to replying within one business day.
Frontier Model Picker and Kimi K3 Day-One Access
releaseJuly 22, 2026- The model picker now shows live availability badges for every lane, and your selection holds across the conversation — on desktop and mobile.
- Kimi K3 joined the catalog alongside the existing frontier lineup, available on day one through the same gateway and API key.
- An automated market watchdog now tracks vendor price moves daily so our per-token pricing stays honest and current.
- A nightly quality benchmark now scores every serving lane so regressions are caught before you notice them.
Relay Browser for macOS and Simpler Pay-As-You-Go
releaseJuly 18, 2026- Relay, our Chromium-based browser with riven built in, shipped its first macOS release candidate — download it from the new Downloads page with published checksums.
- Pay-as-you-go is now a single flat rate of $3 per million tokens across the catalog, with usage metered precisely on streaming and agent runs alike.
- Responses now always report the model name you selected, and malformed requests return clear errors instead of confusing failures.
- Free-tier model lanes were repaired and expanded, so guest and free accounts get faster answers from more providers.
Documents in Chat, Straight Answers, and a Truthful Console
releaseJuly 17, 2026- You can now attach PDF and Word documents in chat — riven reads the actual contents and answers from them, and tells you honestly when a file has no extractable text.
- The assistant now answers questions about riven itself accurately — sign-in, API keys, pricing, and docs — and short follow-ups keep the thread of your research instead of asking you to start over.
- The console playground now lists exactly the models the platform serves today, with live token accounting on every reply.
- A new Commerce surface joins Telephony and Legal under Business, the Help Center gained real guides for accounts, billing, privacy, and troubleshooting, and token metering is now precise across streaming and agent runs.
One Sign-In Everywhere, Faster Streaming, and Guest Upgrades
releaseJuly 15, 2026- Signing in once now signs you in across every riven surface — chat, platform console, docs, and Computer — with no repeated login prompts.
- Streaming responses start noticeably faster and no longer stall on long answers, and internal reasoning traces are fully scrubbed from streamed output.
- Conversations you start as a guest now follow you when you create an account, so nothing you tried before signing up is lost.
- The public status page now reports accurate per-surface health around the clock.
Riven Computer Launches, Citations Everywhere, and Real Usage Numbers
releaseJuly 8, 2026- Riven Computer is live at computer.rivenai.io: an agentic workspace that runs research, planning, and multi-model council tasks on real task boards with approvals, scheduling, and per-task metering.
- Every answer on the main chat surface now carries inline citations grounded in live web search, powered by our new integrated search backend — no external search keys required.
- Your billing page now shows true metered usage in real time, and account recovery heals sign-in issues automatically.
- A refreshed brand system ships across all surfaces.
Ask Without an Account, Simpler Checkout
releaseJuly 1, 2026- You can now ask riven anything directly from the homepage — no account required. Guest sessions get their own secure, rate-limited access automatically.
- Upgrading is simpler: streamlined checkout with promotional codes, a new top-tier plan, and pay-as-you-go quotas that track exactly what you use.
- Single sign-on wiring landed across the platform console in preparation for one-login-everywhere.
New Documentation Center and Major Model-Serving Upgrades
releaseJune 24, 2026- A rebuilt documentation center is live at docs.rivenai.io with product guides and full API reference.
- Our flagship local models got significantly faster: our 35B reasoning model now serves at over 100 tokens per second, and long-context handling is more reliable across the fleet.
- Platform monitoring now verifies every public surface end to end, around the clock.
Security Hardening and Infrastructure Updates
infraJune 2026- We've completed comprehensive security improvements including dependency updates, credential rotation protocols, and verified backup systems.
- Your data security remains our top priority.
Looking ahead
We're focused on expanding model diversity, refining answer quality through additional reasoning improvements, and deepening integration across your workflows. Thank you for using Riven.