generated: '2026-08-14'
method: searched
source: https://docs.parallel.ai/resources/changelog
scheme: dated
docs: https://docs.parallel.ai/resources/changelog
current_api_version: 0.1.2
entries:
- date: '2026-07-21'
  highlights: >-
    Responses API released - an OpenAI Responses-compatible endpoint (POST /v1/responses) for
    latency-sensitive use cases, with fully cited answers, structured output support, and 5-60s
    response times.
  breaking: false
  additions:
  - POST /v1/responses
- date: '2026-07-13'
  highlights: Turbo mode launched for the Search API ($1 per 1,000 requests, p50 ~200ms) for real-time web search.
  breaking: false
- date: '2026-05-19'
  highlights: Index platform introduced so content owners can see how AI agents use their work and earn compensation.
  breaking: false
- date: '2026-05-06'
  highlights: Monitor API reached general availability with new processors, event streams, snapshots, and domain filtering.
  breaking: false
- date: '2026-04-23'
  highlights: Parallel Search MCP became free by default for AI tools and agents, no account setup required.
  breaking: false
- date: '2026-04-22'
  highlights: Major Search & Extract upgrades - Basic/Advanced modes, specialized retrieval for coding and finance, global coverage across 30+ countries.
  breaking: false
- date: '2026-04-07'
  highlights: Task API set new state-of-the-art DeepSearchQA results (Parallel Ultra ~82% accuracy).
  breaking: false
- date: '2026-03-19'
  highlights: Interactions enabled stateful web research via unique IDs for sequential task referencing.
  breaking: false
- date: '2026-03-18'
  highlights: Machine Payments Protocol integration lets agents pay for services via automated payments.
  breaking: false
- date: '2026-03-10'
  highlights: Parallel CLI launched for terminal-based agents to access the web intelligence stack.
  breaking: false
- date: '2026-02-18'
  highlights: Parallel integration added to the Cursor Marketplace.
  breaking: false
undocumented_changes:
  detail: >-
    The live OpenAPI now carries four operations that the dated changelog does not announce:
    POST /v1/responses (announced 2026-07-21) plus three beta Memory operations
    (/v1beta/memory/clear, /evict, /retrieve) that appear in the spec with no changelog entry.
  operations:
  - clear_memory_v1beta_memory_clear_post
  - evict_memory_source_v1beta_memory_evict_post
  - retrieve_memory_v1beta_memory_retrieve_post
notes: >-
  Recent window only. Dates reflect the public changelog at https://docs.parallel.ai/resources/changelog
  as read on 2026-08-14.