When using Flux AI Actions to send instructions or questions to an AI model, requests are managed using credits. For example, using the Amazon Bedrock Anthropic Claude 3 Haiku AI model consumes 1 credit per request.

Based on customer feedback and the pricing of each AI model, we will be revising the number of credits consumed and the number of credits allocated to the Flux Free Plan as follows.

Credit Consumption

For Flux AI Actions, the number of credits consumed per request will be revised as follows:

AI Action Model	Before Revision	After Revision
Amazon Bedrock Anthropic Claude 3 Haiku	1 credit	10 credits
Amazon Bedrock Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet	6 credits	120 credits
Amazon Bedrock Anthropic Claude 3 Opus	30 credits	600 credits
Google Gemini 1.5 Flash	1 credit	20 credits
Google Gemini 1.5 Pro	7 credits	150 credits
Azure OpenAI GPT-4o	10 credits	150 credits

Credit Allocation

Together with the revised credit consumption, the number of credits allocated to the Free Plan will also be revised as follows:

Flux Plan	Before Revision	After Revision
Free Plan	200 credits	2000 credits

For existing customers, the remaining credits as of the scheduled revision date (below) will be multiplied by 10.

For information on how to check your remaining credits, please refer to the View Flux Credits documentation.

Scheduled Revision Date

The above revision is scheduled to take effect on September 18, 2024.

Please note that the revision date and time are subject to change without notice. For any questions, please contact Soracom Support.

As of August 27, 2024, the price of the aiwa tab AB10L Android tablet has been revised. Prices are in Japanese Yen (¥) and include Japanese consumption tax.

aiwa tab AB10L

• Old price: ¥22,000 (including ¥1,000 SORACOM platform coupon)
• New price: ¥21,670 (including ¥1,000 SORACOM platform coupon)

For more details, visit the product page (Japanese)

We are pleased to announce that the ATOM Cam 2 Dedicated LAN Adapter is now available in the Soracom IoT Store. This adapter allows the ATOM Cam 2 camera device to communicate using a LAN connection in order to improve connection stability in various environments, such as:

• Areas where electrical noise is generated by machinery or equipment, such as in a factory
• Areas where the Wi-Fi signal strength is weak, such as in a large store or warehouse
• Areas where there are multiple Wi-Fi networks, leading to signal interference
• Areas where a large number of devices are connected to a single Wi-Fi access point

ATOM Cam 2 Dedicated LAN Adapter

• Available countries and regions: Japan
• Price: 2,530 yen (including tax, shipping not included)

For more details, please refer to the product page (Japanese).

The Soracom Icon Set is Soracom's official icon set containing Soracom service, component, device, and other useful icons that engineers, system integrators, and other users can use in building IoT architecture diagrams.

With this update, we have added several new icons:

The Soracom Icon Set is available in multiple formats including PowerPoint and PNG, and can be downloaded from the Soracom Developers: Downloads page.

We would like to inform our customers that Soracom Lagoon 2 will be discontinued on September 16, 2024. We urge all current users of Soracom Lagoon 2 to promptly migrate to Soracom Lagoon 3 to ensure continued service without interruption.

Migrating from Lagoon 2 to Lagoon 3

For customers still using Lagoon 2, most of your Lagoon 2 data was automatically copied to Lagoon 3 on April 17, 2023 at 03:00 (UTC), in order to assist with migration.

Please refer to the Lagoon: Versions & Migration documentation for additional details on data that was not included in the April 17 migration, and for instructions on how to manually migrate any changes you may have made in Lagoon 2 after this time.

If you have any questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to contact the Soracom support team.

We are pleased to announce that the Soracom IoT handbook Guide to IoT Knowledge is now available in the IoT Store.

Published in April 2024, the Guide to IoT Knowledge is a handbook co-authored by nine IoT specialists from Soracom. It provides a comprehensive overview of IoT, from communication to cloud, applications, devices, and security, and is recommended for those who are new to IoT and are looking for the essential knowledge required to use IoT for business and to develop IoT systems.

Guide to IoT Knowledge

• Size: A5 / 264 pages
• Language: Japanese
• Price: 2,860 yen (tax included, shipping not included)
• Publisher: Gijutsu-Hyohron Co., Ltd.

For more details, please visit the product page (Japanese).

As of July 4, 2024, prices for the M5Stack Basic 3G module set has been revised. Prices are in Japanese Yen (¥) and include Japanese consumption tax.

M5Stack Basic 3G module set

• Old price: ¥12,980
• New price: ¥3,850

For more details, visit the product page (Japanese).

Sales and support for S+ Camera series products is now discontinued as of June 30, 2024.

Please note that availability of and support for the SORACOM Mosaic service will continue until December 31, 2024. After this date, SORACOM Mosaic will be discontinued and support will no longer available.

If you are a current S+ Camera series customer and require further information regarding end of support or service transition, please contact the Soracom Support team.

We sincerely thank you for your patronage of the S+ Camera series products, and look forward to continue providing products and services that meet your needs.

As mentioned in our previous announcement, we have changed the reference database of base station location information used by the Cell Location feature and its corresponding getCellLocation and batchGetCellLocations APIs to OpenCelliD. This change is now effective as of June 3, 2024.

As a reminder, please kindly note the following impact of this update:

• All data obtained through the Cell Location feature (and aforementioned APIs) is subject to the CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license. If you are using this data, please review the terms of the license and make any necessary adjustments to ensure compliance.
• Location information that was previously not available may now be available.
• Location information that was previously available may no longer be available.
• Other aspects of location information, such as geographic position or accuracy, may change.

For additional details, please refer to our previous announcement.

If you have any questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to contact the Soracom Support team.

Postponement of Soracom Lagoon 2 service discontinuation

We previously announced that the Soracom Lagoon 2 service would be discontinued on May 31, 2024. However, we have identified an issue of duplicated alerts in Lagoon 3 that may affect some customers and have decided to postpone the discontinuation.

This postponement will allow us to investigate the cause and implement appropriate measures. However, at this time we have not yet determined the new date for Lagoon 2 service discontinuation.

We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience caused by this issue and greatly appreciate your understanding and patienc

Request for migration to Lagoon 3

For any customers who have not yet migrated to Lagoon 3, we kindly request you to do so as soon as possible in order to determine if you are affected by this or other issues, and so that we may assist you promptly.

We thank you for your cooperation as we work to resolve these issues and improve the quality and stability of the Lagoon service.

If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us.