Claude Motion and Dashboards: Every Claude Release in October 2026

Anthropic launched Claude Motion and Claude Dashboards in beta on 8 October 2026. Motion turns a prompt into a short animation that Claude builds as code, which you can export as an MP4. It is only available on Team and Enterprise plans.

Dashboards builds live charts from data warehouses such as Snowflake and BigQuery, and is in beta on every paid plan. On the same day, Claude Docs, Slides and Design came out of beta on every plan, including Free.

Those launches capped four busy weeks. Since mid-September, Anthropic has merged Cowork into the main Claude app and released three new models: Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5 and Haiku 5.5. Haiku 5.5 starts at $0.10/$0.50 per million input/output tokens, a tenth of Haiku 4.5's price.

Below is every release, what it costs and who can use it. We also made a real Motion animation to show you what the feature produces. We checked every date and price against Anthropic's own pages on 10 October 2026.

Every Claude Release From 15 September to 10 October 2026 at a Glance

What Is Claude Motion?

Claude Motion turns your content into a short animation that plays like a video. You describe what you want, Claude builds it, and the result opens in an editor where it plays straight away.

Anthropic's examples are a 30-second explainer of a quarterly report, an animated chart for a board deck and an onboarding walkthrough for new customers.

How Motion Builds Animations as Code, Not AI Video

Motion is not a video generation model. Claude writes code that animates the text, charts, shapes and images you give it. In Anthropic's words, "there's no generated footage and no AI-generated people."

That design choice matters more than it first appears. Because every animation is code, you can change one detail, such as a word, a number or the length of a scene, and everything else stays as it was.

A video model would regenerate the whole clip and give you something slightly different each time. For anything built on real figures, such as a price list or a quarterly result, Motion keeps the numbers exactly as you typed them.

Who Can Use Claude Motion and How to Open It

Motion is in beta on Team and Enterprise plans only. It is not available on Free, Pro or Max. We checked on a Max account, and the /motion command does not appear.

Motion is on by default on Team plans. On Enterprise it is off by default, and an owner has to turn it on in Organization settings > Artifacts. Enterprise owners can also limit it to specific groups.

There are three ways to start an animation:

• Slash command: Type /motion in the message box.
• Output menu: Select Output in the message box, then choose Motion.
• Artifacts tab: Pick a Motion template and describe what you want.

Anthropic's Claude Motion help guide suggests saying who will watch the animation, where it will play and roughly how long it should be. It also recommends attaching the report or data you want Claude to use.

Exporting MP4s and Opening Them in Adobe, Runway and Other Tools

To download an animation, click Export. Anthropic's help guide only mentions MP4, but the export dialog also offers GIF. It lets you choose 720p or 1080p, 15, 30 or 60 frames per second and three quality levels. A "sharper text" option renders at twice the resolution, which takes longer.

Animations start private. To share one, open it and click Share.

If a clip needs more work, Anthropic says you can open it in Adobe, Descript, HeyGen, Higgsfield, invideo, Luma AI or Runway. Canva and Captions are coming soon.

Anthropic has not published a maximum animation length or said whether Motion supports audio. Treat both as unknowns while the feature is in beta.

Claude Motion in Practice: Our Claude API Pricing Animation

We asked Claude Motion to animate the current Claude API price list, using the same figures we track on our Claude pricing page. The clip above is the MP4 that Motion exported from a Claude Team plan. It runs for 25 seconds.

What We Asked for and What Claude Built

Our prompt asked for a 25-second, 16:9 explainer with no voiceover or music. It opens on a title card, then shows a bar chart of output prices that grows from cheapest to most expensive.

Callouts follow on Haiku 5.5, Sonnet 5.5 and Opus 5.5, and the clip ends on a compareai.today card. We gave Motion the exact prices rather than asking it to look them up: $0.10/$0.50 for Haiku 5.5, $2/$10 for Sonnet 5.5, $4/$20 for Opus 5.5 and $10/$50 for Fable 5.1.

The finished clip goes further than our brief. Each price label counts up as its bar grows, and the view zooms in on each callout in turn. Dashed outlines show where Haiku 4.5 and Opus 5 sat before the new prices. We checked the export frame by frame, and every figure matches Anthropic's price list.

Changing a Price or a Timing Without Starting Again

Claude built the first version in about five minutes. It then took a couple of iterations to make it as eye-catching as the finished clip.

This is where building animations as code pays off. When Anthropic next changes a price, we can ask Claude to change one number and re-export, without rebuilding the clip.

What Is Claude Dashboards?

Claude Dashboards turns a plain-language question about your data into a live dashboard. You connect a data source and ask something like "compare this week's sign-ups with last month". Claude writes the queries, builds the charts and updates the dashboard as the underlying data changes.

Dashboards is in beta on Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise. On Enterprise it is off by default until an owner turns it on in Organization settings > Artifacts. Unlike Motion, it is available to individual Pro subscribers.

Supported Data Warehouses and Connectors

Anthropic names five data warehouses at launch: Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery, ClickHouse, Databricks and Snowflake.

CRM data works too. Salesforce connects through Claude's existing connectors rather than as a warehouse, and Anthropic uses a dashboard of open Salesforce opportunities as one of its examples.

Checking the SQL Behind Every Chart

Claude writes a SQL query for each chart and runs it against your data source. Every chart shows that query and when it was last refreshed. Click a number to see the query behind it, or ask Claude to explain it.

That makes Dashboards easier to trust than a chart pasted into a chat, because anyone with access can check where each figure came from.

Anthropic has not said how often dashboards refresh. Its help guide pitches Dashboards at quick, exploratory questions rather than as a replacement for a full BI platform.

Sending Dashboards on to Hex, Amplitude and Other BI Tools

When a question needs deeper analysis, you can send a dashboard from Claude to Amplitude, Grafana, Hex, Mixpanel, Omni, Perplexity, PostHog or Sigma. Looker, monday.com and Tableau are listed as coming soon.

Claude Docs, Slides and Design Are Out of Beta on Every Plan

Anthropic introduced Claude Docs and Claude Slides on 16 September, in beta on paid plans, and moved Claude Design inside ordinary conversations. On 8 October all three came out of beta and became available on every plan, including Free.

According to Anthropic's launch announcement, people have made more than 45 million docs, decks and designs in Claude since 16 September.

• Exports: PowerPoint and PDF exports keep the editor's formatting, and decks also export to Google Slides as editable files.
• Mobile: You can edit docs, decks and designs in the Claude mobile app.
• Security: Artifacts support customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK), so organisations can control their own keys.
• Enterprise: Docs, Slides and Design turn on by default on 15 October 2026, and admins can switch them on sooner.

Do not confuse these with the Claude for Google Workspace add-on, which Anthropic launched in beta on 6 October. That add-on puts Claude inside Google Docs, Sheets and Slides. Claude Docs and Slides are Claude's own editors.

The Standalone Claude Design Site Closes on 14 December 2026

The original Claude Design site at claude.ai/design will close on 14 December 2026 and then redirect to Claude. If your team still uses it, migrate now.

• What migrates: Design systems move across in one step, with their owners and sharing settings. Admins start it with "Migrate team design systems" on the Artifacts page.
• What does not: Chats, project comments and public project links stay behind. Anthropic deletes chats and comments after the site closes.
• Zero data retention organisations: These cannot turn on artifacts, so they cannot migrate. Download your projects before 14 December.

Cowork Is Now Part of Claude: 16 September, Not 6 October

Several write-ups describe 6 October as the day Cowork launched. That is not what happened. Anthropic announced on 16 September that Cowork and chat were merging into one Claude, and that merge is still rolling out.

Claude's pricing page still says "Rolling out to Pro and Max, with more plans to follow". Team and Free are due "soon", with no date, and Enterprise admins get at least 30 days' notice.

The 6 October change was narrower. According to Anthropic's Cowork help article, new Cowork tasks on Pro and Max now run in the cloud by default, and the "Only on your computer" option is gone. Tasks you had already started locally stay local, and Team and Enterprise plans are not affected.

Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5 and Haiku 5.5: New Models and API Prices

Anthropic replaced all three of its main model tiers in 15 days. Here is the current Claude API price list, per million tokens:

Source: Claude API pricing documentation, checked 10 October 2026. The Batch API halves every rate.

• Opus 5.5 (22 September): At $4/$20 it costs 20% less than Opus 5. Anthropic says it performs at the level of Fable 5.1 on most work and costs 40% less to run than Opus 5. Anthropic also raised five-hour usage limits on Pro, Max, Team and seat-based Enterprise plans. Our Claude Opus 5.5 review covers it in depth.
• Sonnet 5.5 (28 September): It keeps Sonnet 5's $2/$10 price. Anthropic claims more than 30% faster output and up to 30% lower cost per task than Sonnet 5.
• Haiku 5.5 (7 October): Anthropic calls it "the cheapest, fastest, and most capable small model we've ever released". It has a 1M-token context window and 128K maximum output. At $0.10/$0.50 it matches OpenAI's GPT-6 Luna exactly.

For prompts up to 100K tokens, Haiku 5.5 and GPT-6 Luna now tie as the cheapest current-generation first-party models a new project can use. See our cheapest AI API ranking for the full list. Luna keeps its base rate up to 272K tokens, though, so it is the cheaper of the two for longer prompts.

Per token, Haiku 5.5 costs a tenth of Haiku 4.5. It uses Anthropic's newer tokenizer, however, which counts the same text as about 30% more tokens. Anthropic itself puts the average saving at around 75%.

Watch the 100K line, too. Haiku 5.5 is the only current Claude model priced by prompt length. Anthropic bills every other model from Claude 4.6 onwards at one rate across the full 1M-token window.

Haiku 5.5 charges five times more for any request whose prompt goes over 100,000 tokens, and that count includes cache reads and writes. Even then it costs a quarter of Sonnet 5.5's rate. But a budget built on the $0.10 headline will be badly out for long-context work. Our AI pricing calculator shows what your own token mix would cost.

Sonnet 5.5 Cache Reads Halved and Monthly API Credits for Max and Team

On 7 October, Anthropic cut Sonnet 5.5's prompt-cache reads from $0.20 to $0.10 per million tokens, or 5% of the input price. Opus 5.5 already charged the same 5% rate. Cache writes did not change.

The same day, Anthropic started giving monthly API credits to subscribers:

• Max 5x: $100 of API credits per month.
• Max 20x: $200 of API credits per month.
• Team: Up to $500 per month, pooled across users.

You claim them by linking a Claude Console organisation. Anthropic has not published expiry or rollover terms. At Sonnet 5.5's rates, $100 covers about 10 million output tokens a month.

Claude Sonnet 4.5 Retires on 30 November 2026

Anthropic deprecated Claude Sonnet 4.5 on 30 September and will retire it from the Claude API on 30 November 2026. If any of your code still calls it, move to Sonnet 5.5 before then. Our price changes page logs each vendor price move.

Everything Else Anthropic Shipped

• Salesforce in Claude (15 September): A beta plugin with 37 pre-built sales skills, for paid plans that Salesforce approves.
• Plugin developer portal (25 September): Developers can now submit plugins to the Claude directory and track reviews and usage.
• Claude Frontier Academy (2 October): A $100 million programme to train 10,000 Frontier Deployed Engineers by the end of 2027, with London among the cohort locations.
• Claude for Google Workspace (6 October): An add-on and connectors for Google Docs, Sheets and Slides, in beta on paid plans.
• Claude Code (7 October): Version 2.1.293 made Haiku 5.5 the default Haiku model on the Anthropic API.
• Usage Policy update (8 October): A revised policy takes effect on 12 November 2026.
• Anthropic Cyber Mission (8 October): A critical infrastructure defence programme, plus a free open-source code scanner for enrolled projects.
• Managed Agents (9 October): Dynamic workflows arrived in beta for Claude Managed Agents.

Do Motion and Dashboards Cost Extra?

No. Neither feature has a separate fee. Both count toward your plan's usage limits like any other Claude work, and Anthropic says longer or more complex animations use more of your limit than a typical message.

Claude Plan Prices in October 2026

Anthropic lists plan prices in US dollars only. UK prices may differ once VAT and currency conversion are applied.

The cheapest way to get Motion is a Team Standard seat. Team plans start at two members, so that means at least $40 a month on annual billing. If you are weighing a subscription against paying per token, our cost per seat calculator compares the two.

The 1 to 15 October Artifact Usage Promotion

Until 15 October, work that follows creating or editing an artifact uses 50% less of your five-hour session limit. The discount covers the next 10 messages in that chat, and weekly limits are unchanged.

It applies automatically on Pro, Max and Team, and Anthropic added Free on 7 October. Enterprise, Claude Code and the API are excluded. The promotion names docs, slides and designs but does not mention Motion or Dashboards, so do not count on it for those.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can I Use Claude Motion on a Pro or Max Plan?

No. Claude Motion is in beta on Team and Enterprise plans only. Claude's pricing page lists it as unavailable on Free, Pro and Max, and the /motion command does not appear on those plans. Claude Dashboards, launched the same day, is available on Pro and Max.

Does Claude Motion Generate AI Video?

No. Motion writes code that animates your own text, charts, shapes and images. Anthropic says it does not use a video generation model, so there is no generated footage and there are no AI-generated people. You can edit any word, number or timing afterwards and export the result as an MP4 or GIF.

Which Data Sources Does Claude Dashboards Connect To?

At launch, Dashboards connects to Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery, ClickHouse, Databricks and Snowflake. It also works with CRM data such as Salesforce through Claude's existing connectors. Each chart shows the SQL query behind it and when it last refreshed.

Did Claude Cowork Launch on 6 October?

No. Anthropic announced the merger of Cowork and chat on 16 September 2026, and it is still rolling out to Pro and Max. On 6 October, new Cowork tasks on Pro and Max started running in the cloud by default. That changed where tasks run. It was not a launch.

What These Releases Mean for Your Claude Costs

For most readers, the features launched on 8 October do not change the bill. Motion and Dashboards are included in the plans that get them, and Docs, Slides and Design are now free on every plan.

The real cost changes happened on the API. Haiku 5.5 costs a tenth of Haiku 4.5 per token, Sonnet 5.5's cache reads have halved and Opus 5.5 is 20% cheaper than Opus 5.

If you run Claude in production, now is a good time to re-check which tier you are on. See every current rate on our Anthropic Claude pricing page, follow how prices have moved on our AI pricing history tool, or compare Claude with every other provider on compareai.today.