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id: blog-q1-2026-roundup
slug: q1-2026-roundup
date: 2026-03-23
title: "Q1 2026: Video Gen, Image Studio & Enterprise Features"
summary: "Three months of updates: video generation, Image Studio, sessions, GPT-5.4 family, enterprise guardrails, 5+ new providers, and much more."
categories: ["Announcements"]
draft: false
image:
  src: "/blog/q1-2026.png"
  alt: "Q1 2026 Feature Roundup"
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  height: 1198
---

Here's everything new in LLM Gateway over the first quarter of 2026 — from video generation and image editing to enterprise security features and a wave of new models.

## Video Generation

LLM Gateway now supports **video generation** — submit text prompts and receive generated videos via an async job-based API. Jobs are tracked with status polling and proper error handling for failed generations.

## Image Studio & Image APIs

### Image Studio

The Playground gained a dedicated **Image Studio** at `/image` — a gallery-based UI purpose-built for image generation:

- **Compare mode** — Select up to 3 image models and generate in parallel, with side-by-side results
- Full prompt controls: aspect ratio, resolution, pixel dimensions, image count (1–4)
- Scrollable gallery, click-to-zoom, hover-to-download
- Recent prompts saved in sidebar for quick re-use

### OpenAI-Compatible Image APIs

Two new endpoints for programmatic image work:

- **`/v1/images/generations`** — Generate images with an OpenAI-compatible request format
- **`/v1/images/edits`** — Edit existing images by sending an image + prompt describing changes
- Both support `aspect_ratio` parameter and resolution-based pricing

### AI SDK Provider: `generateImage()`

The `@llmgateway/ai-sdk-provider` now supports Vercel AI SDK's `generateImage()` via `llmgateway.image()`.

## Sessions & Activity

**Sessions** let you group related requests into trackable conversations:

- Filter activity logs by session
- View streaming cost breakdowns per session
- Improved activity log filters across the board

## Enterprise Features

### Guardrails

Enterprise-grade **guardrails** with configurable rules and actions for content moderation, safety policies, and compliance requirements.

### Audit Logs

Full **audit logging** across all organizations — every significant action is tracked with timestamps, actors, and details. Reads are gated on enterprise plans.

### Enterprise Contact API

Enterprise contact form submissions now route through the API for better tracking and follow-up.

## Automatic Retry & Fallback

When a provider fails (5xx, timeout, network error), the gateway now **automatically retries on the next best provider** — transparently, within the same API call:

- Up to 2 retries before returning an error
- Full routing transparency with `routing` array in metadata
- Retried logs linked to their successful replacements
- `X-No-Fallback: true` header to opt out

## New Models

### GPT-5.4 Family

- **GPT-5.4** — 1.05M context, $2.50/$15.00 per 1M tokens, reasoning support
- **GPT-5.4 Pro** — 1.05M context, $30.00/$180.00 per 1M tokens, more compute for harder problems
- **GPT-5.4 Mini** — Smaller, cheaper variant
- **GPT-5.4 Nano** — Lightest variant for high-volume workloads

### GPT-5.2/5.3 Codex & Chat

New Codex and Chat variants for the GPT-5 family added with Bedrock and direct mappings.

### Gemini Updates

- **Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview** — Fast image generation with 0.5K–4K resolutions
- **Gemini 3 Pro Preview** deprecated in favor of newer models
- Unified Grok-4-fast and Grok-4-1-fast models with reasoning-based routing

### Other Models

- **MiniMax M2.7** mappings
- **Moonshot** reasoning option enabled
- **XAI** reasoning output configuration
- **o4-mini** added to OpenAI models

## New Providers

- **EmberCloud** — New provider expanding routing options
- **Together AI** — Access to Together's model catalog
- **AWS Bedrock** — Extended mappings and cache pricing fixes
- **CanopyWave** — Cache pricing added (marked unstable due to availability)

## Billing & Payments

- **Stripe Checkout** for credits top-up — streamlined payment flow
- **Gift credits** functionality added to dashboard
- **Payment method validations** for better error handling
- User-friendly error messages on card decline (no more 500s)
- Resolution-based image pricing for accurate cost tracking

## UI & Design

- **Redesigned landing page** sections
- **Redesigned Code app** with fresh UI
- **Revamped cost simulator** and navigation
- **Model category pages** — Browse models by category
- **Status page indicator** — Quick link from dashboard
- SEO audit improvements and canonical URLs

## Platform & Reliability

- **Reasoning max tokens** — Control reasoning depth with configurable limits
- **Streaming cost tracking** — Real-time cost calculation during streaming responses
- **Cached token accounting** — Fixed double-counting in storage costs and Bedrock streaming
- **Content filter classification** — ByteDance and xAI content safety blocks properly handled
- **Bedrock tool schema sanitization** — Cleaner tool calling with AWS models
- **IAM enforcement** — `deny_providers` rules correctly enforced during routing
- **Follow-up lifecycle emails** — Automated email sequences for user onboarding

## Documentation & Guides

- **Codex CLI guide** — Using LLM Gateway with OpenAI Codex CLI
- **Autohand guide** — Autohand integration walkthrough
- **Clawdbot guide** — Clawdbot integration guide
- **Migration guides** — New migrations section covering LiteLLM and others
- **Themed screenshots** — Light/dark mode screenshots across learn section
- **Introduction page** — New docs landing page

## Admin Dashboard

- **History graphs and cost charts** with date pickers
- **Model detail pages** with performance data
- **Members tab** on organization detail
- **Revenue tracking** with proper transaction filtering
- **Log cards** matching UI activity format

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