The retention period for data generated by the Soracom Flux app has been changed. The retention period will now be applied according to your plan.

Changes to the Retention Period

Previously, the retention period for data generated by the Soracom Flux app (such as execution history, messages, and action execution results) was 7 days regardless of the plan. With this change, the retention period will now be set differently for each plan as follows:

• Developer Plan: 7 days
• Standard Plan: 40 days
• Enterprise Plan: Please inquire about retention periods

Customers on the Standard Plan and Enterprise Plan can now store data for a longer period than before, enabling more flexible data management.

Important Notes

Data exceeding the retention period will be automatically deleted.

For details, please refer to the Soracom Flux documentation (Japanese).

If you have any questions, please contact Soracom Support.

The Soracom Pricing Calculator now supports creating estimates for Global coverage. Previously, estimates were limited to Japan coverage.

Estimates for Global coverage are displayed in USD. Tax handling depends on the service.

The calculator does not provide a feature to select a destination country or zone to automatically calculate usage charges. Use the estimate as a reference for Soracom services and IoT SIM offerings available in Japan.

For more details on the Pricing Calculator, please refer to the Create an Estimate (Japanese) documentation.

If you have any questions, please contact Soracom Support.

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

Amazon Bedrock – Anthropic Claude 3 Opus, one of the AI models available in Soracom Flux AI Actions, has reached end of support.

This change was implemented in accordance with the end of support schedule previously announced on October 15, 2025.

As a result, AI actions in Flux apps that were using this model have been disabled. If you wish to continue using AI actions, please switch to another AI model.

You can view the available AI models for Soracom Flux AI Actions in the Soracom Flux documentation.

If you have any questions, please contact the Soracom Support team.

Soracom Flux AI actions now let you select the Google Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite model.

Requests to AI models available in AI actions are managed with Flux credits. Google Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite consumes 4 credits per request. AI models that allow you to use your own license (API key) do not consume credits.

The credit consumption per request for Google Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is as follows:

Model	Consumed credits
Google Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite	4 Credits

Google Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite supports video input. When video is specified as input to the AI model, additional credits for video usage are also consumed. For details on credit consumption, see Actions and consumed credits (Japanese).

For more information on Soracom Flux, please refer to the Soracom Flux documentation.

We would like to inform customers that pricing and service terms for some Soracom Services will be revised, effective February 1, 2026. These updates are intended to help customers more easily predict the monthly costs of using these services.

Details of the Change

• Date of Change: February 1, 2026
• Affected Services: Virtual Private Gateway, Virtual Private Gateway Fixed IP Address, Soracom Canal, Soracom Direct, Soracom Door, Soracom Junction
• Impact: Pricing structure for VPG and related features will be revised from hourly to monthly billing, based on a 30-day month (720 hours).

We appreciate your continued support and understanding. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact your sales representative or contact us via our webform.

Amazon Bedrock – Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet, one of the AI models you can select in Soracom Flux AI Actions, will reach end of support on March 1, 2026 (see Amazon Bedrock Model Lifecycle).

Consequently, AI actions in Flux apps that utilize this model will be disabled after March 1, 2026. If you are using Amazon Bedrock – Anthropic Claude 3 Sonnet, please switch to another AI model by March 1, 2026.

You can view the available AI models for Soracom Flux AI Actions in the Soracom Flux documentation.

If you have any questions, please contact the Soracom Support team.

Soracom Flux is an IoT automation service that enables business efficiency and automation by combining processes such as notifications and generative AI-based analysis using IoT data collected from sensors, cameras, and other devices.

Using Soracom Flux's app template feature, IoT apps can be created simply by selecting a template optimized for a representative use case. Customers can also customize them as needed with minimal parameter adjustments.

We have now added a new app template, "Analyze and Notify Using SoraCam Videos via Harvest Files".

For an overview of the template, estimated costs, and specific usage instructions, please visit the IoT Template Gallery (Japanese).

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

We have added a new action, Collect Message Action (Japanese), to Soracom Flux.

The Collect Message Action aggregates actions that have been branched within a Flux app or split using the Send event for each feature.

For example, after executing a RTSP Camera Image Action and an AI Action targeting multiple RTSP compatible cameras, you can then execute subsequent notifications collectively.

The Collect Message Action is available on the Standard Plan and Enterprise Plan.

For more information, see Collect Message Action (Japanese).

We added a preview feature to Soracom Harvest Files so you can check image and text files directly from the User Console without downloading them.

Select a file in the console to open a preview, which is helpful when you want to quickly confirm its contents before downloading.

Previewing a file counts as a Harvest Files read, so charges apply based on the amount of data displayed, just like when downloading.

For more details, please refer to Soracom Harvest Files.

Soracom Flux is an IoT automation service that enables business efficiency and automation by combining processes such as notifications and generative AI-based analysis using IoT data collected from sensors, cameras, and other devices.

Using Soracom Flux's app template feature, IoT apps can be created simply by selecting a template optimized for a representative use case. Customers can also customize them as needed with minimal parameter adjustments.

We have now added a new app template, "SoraCam AI Video Analysis and Notification."

For an overview of the template, estimated costs, and specific usage instructions, please visit the IoT Template Gallery (Japanese).

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