AI Daily · Oct 31, 2026: Claude renames plans, verified Ultra drops 5-hour limit
Anthropic renames Max 5x/20x to Max/Ultra at unchanged prices and drops the 5-hour limit for verified Ultra accounts. Also: Command Code's $10 plan adds $100 permanent credits, and Ling 3.1 Flash is free for four days.
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Claude renames Max plans, drops 5-hour limit for verified Ultra
Anthropic renames Max 5x to Max and Max 20x to Ultra; Max stays $100/month and Ultra $200/month. Verified Ultra accounts lose the 5-hour limit starting today, while newer accounts keep a temporary limit until verified.
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Command Code GOAT plan offers $100 permanent credits on $10 monthly plan
Command Code's $10/mo GOAT plan includes $100 of permanent usage each for DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 and GLM 5.3 Flash, with GLM Flash running 300-500 TPS in its harness; its CEO also says limits are rising, with roughly 13.1B tokens for $10.
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Ling 3.1 Flash 1019 free in Command Code for four days
Command Code is offering Ling 3.1 Flash 1019 free for 4 days on all plans; the open-weight model targets reasoning and agentic tasks with a 1M token context window, 560B total and 25B active parameters.
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OpenCode offers $100 of DeepSeek V4.1 Flash usage
OpenCode's Operation Cheepseek Phase 4 gives users $100 of usage credit for DeepSeek V4.1 Flash.
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Coding plan accounts benchmarked on DeepSeek V4.1 Flash token output
A user burned DeepSeek V4.1 Flash on several coding plans: OpenDesign $8 ~6.9B tokens, Command Code Goat $10 5.2B, OpenCode Go $10 ~4.6B, Volcano Ark 49.9 CNY ~1.7B; per $10 OpenDesign leads at ~8.6B.
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TBC mischief 1 image-to-video model launches on OpenRouter
The Biological Computing Company's mischief 1 is live on OpenRouter: it turns a starting image plus a prompt into a 3s or 5s clip at 480p or 720p, priced from $0.005 per second of video.
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Codex mobile adds multi-account switching, resets coming
Codex and ChatGPT users can now switch between multiple accounts on mobile, with desktop support coming; the next two days will bring banked resets.
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Anthropic automates red-teaming of subtle emergent misalignment
Anthropic set thousands of Claude agents to evade a training data monitor, and the agents produced training data that appeared harmless to the monitor, testing whether red-teaming can be automated.
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Hex voice input tool ships stable release for Mac, Windows, Linux
OpenCode released the stable version of Hex, a local, fast voice input tool that works across macOS, Windows and Linux and can be used with any coding agent.
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OpenCode restores Claude subscription support for coding agent
OpenCode, the open source coding agent, again lets users sign in with their Claude subscription to drive the agent.