The purchasing conditions for certain IoT SIMs that support SMS communication with other carriers will be changed starting July 25, 2025.

Target Products

• Soracom Air for Cellular plan-D (no bundle) (SMS/data communication)
• Soracom Air for Cellular plan-D (D-300MB, SMS/data communication)
• Soracom Air for Cellular plan-K

Changes by Account Type

Individual Accounts

New purchases of the above products will be discontinued, so individual customers will no longer be able to newly purchase these IoT SIMs.

Business Accounts

If you wish to newly purchase the above products, please contact Soracom Support.

Additional Information

• Existing IoT SIMs that have already been purchased can continue to be used as is.
• The following products without SMS functionality will continue to be available for purchase as before:
  • Soracom Air for Cellular plan-D (no bundle) (data communication only)
  • Soracom Air for Cellular plan-D (D-300MB) (data communication only)

If you have any questions, please contact Soracom Support.

Please note that this service is currently only available for customers located in Japan.

We are excited to announce App Templates for Soracom Flux, a new experience that lets you to effortlessly create Flux apps using predefined configurations.

While Flux provides an easy-to-use interface for building sophisticated IoT applications, apps need to be created from scratch, including selecting data sources, adding channels and actions, and configuring how data is processed and transmitted.

App Templates help you by building a fully-configured Flux App, which you can then customize to suit your specific needs. Simply select a template that best matches the objective of your IoT application and follow the guided prompts.

For detailed instructions on how to use the templates, please refer to the Soracom Flux App Templates documentation.

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

You can now use OpenAI's AI models in Soracom Flux without needing to provide your own API key!

Previously, running these models required setting up an OpenAI API key. Now, you can simply use Soracom Flux credits to run AI Actions with OpenAI's AI models.

Below is the number of credits consumed per request for the newly supported OpenAI models:

Model	Credits per Request
OpenAI (GPT-4.1)	29 credits
OpenAI (GPT-4.1-mini)	6 credits
OpenAI (GPT-4.1-nano)	2 credits
OpenAI (GPT-4o)	35 credits
OpenAI (GPT-4o mini), without image	3 credits
OpenAI (GPT-4o mini), with image	60 credits

Please note that you can still use your own OpenAI API key with any of the above models.

For more information, see the Soracom Flux documentation.

We are excited to announce the official release of Soracom Query, a fully-featured IoT data analytics platform for securely collecting, storing, and analyzing IoT data. After an initial limited release in 2023, Query is now available to all customers and brings powerful new features for performing large-scale IoT data analysis, creating real-time visualizations, and even building complex queries using natural language.

Query Assistant AI

This release introduces Query Assistant AI, a built-in tool that empowers users to generate complex data analysis by simply describing the desired output in natural language. Users can write queries such as:

• "Show me a list of devices with the highest data usage from the past week"
• "Find anomalies in the data sent by my devices"

Query Assistant AI automatically converts these into SQL for reliable data analysis, allowing users to easily explore and gain valuable insights into their IoT application without needing to be familiar with database structures.

Store, Visualize, and Connect Your Data

Query works seamlessly with other Soracom services, such as Harvest for securely storing data on platform, and Lagoon for building powerful dashboards and visualizations from Query data analysis results, eliminating the need to set up, transfer, and process data using external cloud services.

For power users, Query also supports connecting its data analysis features directly to external BI tools for full control of deeper analysis.

Plans to Fit Every Use Cases

Query is available in three plans:

• Trial Plan: An introductory plan that allows you to test all of Query's features for 2 months
• Business Plan: A standard monthly subscription suitable for most deployments
• Enterprise Plan: An advanced plan that adds cross-account data analysis, database access, and custom report delivery

To learn more about Soracom Query and get started, visit the Soracom Query documentation.

We are pleased to release a new feature that allows you to assign category names to IoT device data stored in Soracom Harvest Data!

With this feature, you can set a category name for each IoT SIM group where Harvest Data is enabled. In turn, when IoT SIM devices in the group send data, that data is stored with the category name, allowing you to group data across multiple devices instead of managing each device's data separately. This makes it easier to visualize trends and run analysis across similar types of data.

These categories also work with Soracom Query, allowing you to perform more sophisticated IoT data analysis grouped or filtered by category, calculate averages, maximums, and minimums across multiple devices, and more.

For more information on configuring Harvest Data categories and Query usage, refer to the Harvest Data and Query documentation.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Soracom Support.

We are pleased to start pre-orders for two new Soracom Cloud Camera Services (SoraCam) products.

SoraCam Outdoor Starter Kit: A ready-to-use set for locations with an available power source. Includes an LTE-compatible Wi-Fi router, a high data usage SIM, and a waterproof AC power adapter, all housed in a waterproof case.

SoraCam Outdoor Solar Kit: A set that enables SoraCam use in locations without a reliable power source, featuring a rechargeable battery box and solar panel. Also includes an LTE-compatible Wi-Fi router and a high data usage SIM.

Pre-order start

Pre-orders for both kits start Wednesday, July 16. Shipping is scheduled for early August.

For details, please refer to each product's page.

We are pleased to announce that the GPS + Beacon Edge Unit SORACOM Edition by JENESIS Inc. is now available in the Soracom IoT Store.

The GPS + Beacon Edge Unit SORACOM Edition is a compact, ready-to-deploy IoT device equipped with features such as GPS-based location tracking, temperature and humidity environmental sensing, and BLE beacon reception with data forwarding to the cloud.

Key Features

• 1,500mAh battery and LTE-M connectivity, enabling long-term operation even when power is limited.
• Integrated with Soracom platform, allowing for:
  • Seamless use with Soracom Beam, Funnel, Funk, and Harvest Data.
  • Buffering data internally and transmitting in batches (when used with Soracom Harvest Data) to reduce network connections and further improving battery life.
  • Remotely managing and synchronizing settings across a large number of devices, even if they are deployed in remote locations.
• Compatible with external LTE and GPS antennas (not included) for improving reception and allowing more flexible installations.

GPS + Beacon Edge Unit SORACOM Edition

• Available countries and regions: Japan
• Price: ¥18,700 (tax included, shipping separate)
  • Soracom IoT SIM is not included. Please purchase separately.

Note: This product is available for purchase now, however shipping is scheduled to begin in September 2025.

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

We are proud to announce Wisora, a new generative AI service designed to support your business, now open for early registration!

Wisora leverages your organization’s existing product and service documents and web content to generate automated responses to employee and customer inquiries. It can answer questions directly or suggest helpful responses, making it useful for both internal teams and customer-facing scenarios.

Wisora is ideal for:

• Answering customer support inquiries
• Powering internal help desks
• Enhancing marketing websites with intelligent Q&A touchpoints

Key Features

• Easy bot creation for internal or external use by loading content from web pages, PDFs, HTML, and Office documents.

  

• Accurate, AI-powered responses using retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for delivering precise answers based on the information you provide, with built-in tools for improving response quality.
• Built-in management tools to customize bot behavior and appearance, view feedback metrics, and manage operations, all from an intuitive user interface.
• Starter, Pro, and Enterprise plans for any use case to match your organization’s needs.
• Built with security and privacy first so your data stays in your control and is never used for secondary purposes.

For full details and to register early, visit the official Wisora website (Japanese).

At launch, Wisora will only be available for customers located in Japan. If you are located outside of Japan and are interested, please contact us.

Soracom MCP Server is a server that implements the Model Context Protocol (MCP). It acts as a gateway that allows AI tools to invoke Soracom APIs.

By using Soracom MCP Server, even if users are unfamiliar with Soracom API specifications, the AI intelligently interprets requests and automatically selects and invokes the appropriate API. Outputs can be presented visually in tables or graphs, and by simultaneously utilizing other MCP servers and web searches available to AI tools, the use cases for Soracom APIs expand significantly.

Soracom MCP Server is available as an NPM package and can be immediately used with MCP-compatible services such as Claude Desktop and Cursor.

For more details, see the blog post Making Soracom API Easier to Use! Announcing Soracom MCP Server (July 16, 2025) (Japanese).

Soracom MCP Server is currently in Early Access before its official release. The Soracom APIs available through Soracom MCP Server will be continuously expanded based on user feedback. We encourage you to try it out and share your thoughts and feature requests.

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.