This update brings a free public AI chat, more capable AI assistants, a much richer object storage experience, and clearer itemized billing.
Release NotesBy Samuel Malkasian | FounderJune 30, 20264 min read
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Samuel Malkasian | Founder
Samuel Malkasian is the founder and lead cloud architect at Carpathian, where he designed the platform's core architecture along with a range of client enterprise systems and open-source tools for AI workflows and integration. He serves as a Cyber Warfare Officer in the U.S. Army and has a background in machine learning and data science. He is currently focused on building AI infrastructure that is secure, efficient, and low-power by design.
This update brings a free public AI chat, more capable AI assistants, a much richer object storage experience, and clearer itemized billing. Here is everything new.
AI Chat, now public and free
We launched a public AI chat, available from "AI Chat" in the top menu. Your first message needs no account, and chatting stays free with no caps.
The pricing page now shows live per-token rates for every Carpathian API AI model, so you can see exactly what input and output cost before you start.
More capable AI assistants
You now have more control over how each assistant responds. You can choose how closely it sticks to your uploaded documents: Strict answers only from them, Balanced fills gaps with general knowledge, and Open chats freely. A slider sets how precise or creative its wording is.
Attach a document to an assistant right from the chat with the paperclip button. It is added to that assistant's knowledge permanently and becomes available once it finishes processing.
Add images and scanned PDFs to an assistant's knowledge. The text is read automatically, so photos of documents and scanned files become searchable just like a normal upload. Drop several images at once and they become a single document, one page per image.
Review and fix the text pulled from any page. Open a document in the assistant's Knowledge tab to see each page's image next to its text, correct anything that came out wrong, and your edit is re-learned automatically.
Bug Fix: The chat also no longer clears itself when you step away. Leaving the page idle used to reload the conversation and wipe whatever you were typing, and now your open chat and in-progress message stay put.
A richer object storage experience
Files now have a built-in preview. Open images, PDFs, text, audio, and video right in object storage without downloading them, and step through a bucket using the on-screen or keyboard arrows like a gallery.
Every file has quick buttons to preview it, open it in a new browser tab, or download it.
Large uploads now pick up where they left off. If your browser closes or your connection drops partway through, come back and choose the same file to finish the upload instead of starting over.
Rename a bucket and edit its description and default visibility right from the bucket page, with no need to delete and recreate it. You can also delete a bucket from inside the bucket view.
Clearer, itemized billing
When you create or resize a server, the cost estimate now itemizes each part of the machine, including vCPU, memory, and disk, each with its own rate. The shared network plan appears as a separate line, and the prorated amount due for the rest of the month sits next to the standard monthly rate.
The billing page breaks every resource down to its individual components with per-unit rates, shows how many days of the month you have been billed for so far, and projects each resource's month-end total.
Mar 30, 2026
The public pricing page and instance builder always show current live prices, so comparing plans matches what you are actually charged.
Dashboard improvements
The dashboard home now shows a Billing snapshot with your net due and gross usage for the current month, plus available credit when you have some and a link to the full billing page. Like the other widgets, you can reorder or hide it.
Dashboard pages no longer reset on their own while you are away. When your session quietly refreshes in the background, the page and anything you were filling in stay as you left them.
Bug Fix: Achievement badges now appear the moment you earn them, including badges earned while a new server is being set up.
Security
We strengthened the platform's automatic protection against malicious login and access attempts, so hostile traffic is detected and blocked faster across the entire platform (and those datasets are available to users under the threat intel for use in their projects).
