Release notes

What's new

Every change we ship, newest first.

v1.14.0
Latest

Plain is now called Chat

The single-model mode has a clearer name. Nothing else about it changed.

Improved

  • The mode for talking to one model is now called Chat, next to Consensus.
v1.13.0

Choose how hard a model thinks

Pick how hard a model thinks before it answers, from Off to High where the model supports it. Higher levels give it more room to work through hard questions.

Added

  • A new Thinking button beside the model picker in chat lets you choose how hard a model thinks, from Off to High, wherever the model supports it. Your choice is remembered for each model in this browser.
  • If a level isn't available on a model right now, the reply tells you which level it used instead. Models that always think say so in the Thinking menu.

Improved

  • Pick a higher level to give the model more room to think and answer. On the pricier models, higher plans get more room.
  • Higher levels think longer and use up your usage faster, and the Thinking menu says so.
v1.12.3

Council summaries end cleanly

A council's summary is never left blank, and one that could not be written no longer looks unfinished.

Fixed

  • If the council's summary comes back empty, a backup model writes it, so you never get a blank summary.
  • A council whose summary could not be written no longer shows "Synthesizing…" forever, live or when reopened.
v1.12.2

Easier to reach us

You can now email support straight from the home page, the sign-in pages and the account menu.

Added

  • A Contact Us link on the home page and sign-in pages, and Contact Support in the account menu, so help is one click away.
v1.12.1

Auto mode handles long questions

Long, detailed questions in Auto mode now get the council format that suits them.

Fixed

  • Auto mode now picks Debate, Advocacy or Perspective for long, detailed questions too. Before, many of them fell back to a Debate with generic sides.
v1.12.0

Chat can now search the web

When a question needs current information, the assistant searches the web and links its sources.

Added

  • In chat, the assistant searches the web for things that change or are newer than its training, such as news, prices and recent releases.
  • Answers that use the web link each claim to its source.
v1.11.2

Chat gets straight to solving your question

The assistant now answers first, finishes the whole task and makes sensible assumptions instead of asking you to clarify.

Improved

  • In chat, the assistant leads with the answer and finishes the whole task, such as complete code or every step, instead of an outline.
  • When a request is a little unclear, the assistant takes the most likely reading, says what it assumed and answers, rather than stopping to ask.
  • Instead of saying it is not sure, the assistant gives its best answer and briefly flags anything that may be out of date.
v1.11.1

Auto mode picks the right format, and summaries survive an outage

Auto mode now reliably matches the council's format to your question, and one model being down no longer costs you the summary.

Fixed

  • Auto mode now chooses Debate, Advocacy or Perspective to suit your question. Before, it almost always fell back to a Debate with generic sides.
  • If the model that writes the council's summary is unavailable, a backup model now writes it, so you still get a summary of your council's answers.
v1.11.0

The assistant now knows today's date and your local time

Chats and councils know the current date and your local time, and can work out dates, gaps between dates and times in other time zones.

Added

  • The assistant can work out a date from another, like 90 days from now, and tell you how long it is until or since a date.
  • Ask what the time is in another city and the assistant converts it between time zones for you.

Improved

  • In chat and in councils, the assistant now knows today's date and your local time, so questions about today, this week or this year get the right answer.
  • Short snippets, explanations and rewrites of text you paste now stay in the chat. Ask for a document when you want one.
  • Images in answers now open as links instead of loading automatically.

Fixed

  • The weather card shows again when you ask about the weather.
  • Previews of documents the assistant creates, updates or edits, and its suggestion cards, now show in the message list.
v1.10.2

A clearer privacy policy and a recoverable crash page

The privacy policy now names the service that helps us find and fix crashes, and a rare full crash now gives you a way back.

Improved

  • The privacy policy now lists our error monitoring provider, which helps us spot crashes and failed checkouts quickly. It never receives your messages.

Fixed

  • If the app ever crashes completely, you now get a page with Try again and Back to chats instead of a bare error message.
v1.10.1

The welcome tour now shows once per account

Signing in on a new device or in a private window no longer brings the tour back.

Fixed

  • The welcome tour opens once for each account, the first time you reach the chat screen. You can still open it any time with Take the tour in your account menu.
v1.10.0

Clearer settings and a steadier new chat screen

Notification switches now show on or off, settings stay put as you move around, and Choose your plan has a way back.

Added

  • Consensus now shows its own hint on the new chat screen: Each member takes an assigned side · Open Customize below to change the council.
  • Choose your plan now has a way back. From Settings it reads Back to settings and returns you to Settings, even after a cancelled checkout. Otherwise it reads Back to chat.

Improved

  • On phones, settings now has a tab bar above the content instead of a menu squeezing it from the side.

Fixed

  • Notification switches in Settings now clearly show whether they are on or off, in light and dark.
  • Dialogs, menus, dropdowns and tooltips now open, close and highlight the way they were meant to.
  • The settings menu no longer jumps up and down when you switch tabs, and it stays in view while a long page scrolls.
  • The input box and heading on the new chat screen are steadier when you switch between Plain and Consensus.
v1.9.1

Your plan now shows correctly on the plans page

If you pay for a plan, the plans page no longer also marks the free Basic plan as your current plan.

Fixed

  • On Choose your plan, the Basic card no longer says Your current plan when you are subscribed to Go, Plus, Pro or Max. Only the plan you pay for is marked.
v1.9.0

Share a council as a public page

Turn one council into a page you can send to anyone, and stop sharing whenever you like.

Added

  • Share a finished council from the Share button under its answer. Anyone with the link can read the question and the answers, and your name isn't shown.
  • Stop sharing at any time and the page disappears for everyone.
  • Anyone who opens a shared council can ask the same question of their own council with Run this council yourself.
v1.8.0

Open a council with your question ready

A link can now open a council with your question already written. A question that arrives in a link no longer sends itself.

Added

  • Links can open a council with a question already filled in and the council mode chosen. Signed out, you see the question first, then sign up or log in and land in the composer.

Improved

  • A question that arrives in a link now waits in the message box until you send it, so nothing is sent until you decide.
v1.7.0

Tell us how you found Consensus AI

After you verify your email we ask where you heard about us, and the privacy policy now explains what we record.

Added

  • An optional "How did you hear about us?" question appears once you verify your email, and you can skip it.

Improved

  • The privacy policy now lists the cookies we use and what we record when you sign up.
v1.6.0

Safer account deletion

Deleting your account now needs your password, so nobody else using your signed-in browser can close it.

Improved

  • Deleting your account now asks for your current password as well as typing DELETE.
  • The sign-up page now links to our Terms alongside the Privacy Policy.
v1.5.1

Council members no longer run out of room before answering

On a long question, a council member could spend its whole reply thinking and answer nothing. It now leaves room to answer.

Improved

  • When a council member still can't answer, it now says why and suggests a shorter question or a different model.
  • Replies can now run longer before they are cut off.

Fixed

  • A council member working through a long question no longer runs out of room before it answers. If it still does, it tries once more with less thinking.
v1.5.0

Claude Sonnet, GPT Terra, Gemini Pro and Grok on Basic

The Basic plan now includes eleven models, so you can put stronger models on your council without upgrading.

Added

  • Basic now includes Claude Sonnet, GPT Terra, GPT Sol, Grok, Gemini Pro, Gemini Flash, Muse Spark 1.3 and DeepSeek Pro, alongside GPT Luna, Claude Haiku and DeepSeek Flash.

Improved

  • Stronger models use your monthly usage faster. When it runs low, a lighter model answers in their place while some is left, and the model picker tells you.
  • The model picker lists OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, Google and Meta models first.
v1.4.0

New chats on the Basic plan start with a council

On the Basic plan, new chats now open in Consensus with three models ready, so one click shows where they agree and where they don't.

Added

  • On the Basic plan, new chats now open in Consensus with GPT Luna, Claude Haiku and DeepSeek Flash ready. Switch to Plain any time.

Improved

  • Suggested questions on an empty chat now make sense on their own. In Consensus, one click asks your council.
  • On paid plans, the ready-made council is now GPT Terra, Grok and Claude Sonnet, three models from three companies.
  • While your council gets ready, the chat now says it is convening the council.
  • The Go plan now lists the premium models it adds.
v1.3.2

Pay in your own currency or US dollars

In most countries outside Canada, checkout now lets you pay in your own currency or in US dollars, the currency shown on the site.

Fixed

  • In most countries outside Canada, checkout offered Canadian dollars as the alternative to your own currency. It now offers US dollars, and your price is converted from the US price you saw on the site.
v1.3.1

Fewer duplicate verification emails

If your sign-up email hasn't shown up yet, we now point you to your spam folder and give the first email a minute to arrive before offering another.

Improved

  • Whenever we send your verification email, or ask you to verify before signing in, we remind you to check your spam or junk folder.

Fixed

  • After you sign up, the Resend verification email button counts down for a minute before it unlocks, so you no longer get two emails while the first is still on its way.
v1.3.0

A clearer homepage

The homepage now shows a council at work and describes only what Consensus AI does today.

Improved

  • The homepage plays a sample council run, so you can see members answer from their own sides before one answer comes together.

Fixed

  • The homepage, plan descriptions and FAQ now match what Consensus AI does today, and every plan lists the same email support.
  • Shared links to Consensus AI now show a preview image with the product's name and promise.
v1.2.1

Signing out clears your account from the screen

When you sign out, your account, sidebar and chats now leave the screen right away instead of staying until you reload the page.

Fixed

  • Signing out from the chat screen or a conversation now takes you straight to the home page, instead of leaving your account and sidebar on screen until you reload.
  • If signing out fails, you now see a message and stay signed in, instead of nothing happening.
v1.2.0

Pay in Canadian dollars, or in your own currency

Canadian prices are now fixed in Canadian dollars, and in most other countries checkout lets you pay in your own currency.

Added

  • In Canada, plans now have fixed prices in Canadian dollars, from $13 CAD a month for Go. If you already subscribe, your plan stays in US dollars.
  • In most countries outside the US and Canada, checkout lets you pay in your own currency.
v1.1.2

Cleaner council answers

Council answers now end with the answer itself, without a row of token counts underneath.

Fixed

  • Council answers no longer end with a usage row that could show zero tokens and no cost.
v1.1.1

Usage that matches what each answer costs

Your usage now reflects what each answer actually costs, and a model that can't answer no longer leaves you without a reply.

Improved

  • Your usage now counts what each reply actually cost, so it stays accurate when a model moves to a newer version with a different price.
  • If a model you picked can't answer, GPT Luna answers in its place, and your usage counts GPT Luna's cost.

Fixed

  • Very short replies now count toward your usage; some were counted as zero before.
  • Council answers now count their full cost toward your usage, even when a council costs more than expected.
v1.1.0

Always the newest models, plus Claude Haiku and Meta

The model picker now always offers each model's newest version and shows its full name. Claude Haiku joins the free plan, and Meta's models join paid plans.

Added

  • Claude Haiku is now on the free plan alongside GPT Luna and DeepSeek Flash. DeepSeek Pro moves to paid plans, and the free council now pairs GPT Luna with Claude Haiku.
  • Meta's Muse Spark 1.3 and Muse Wonder are available on paid plans.

Improved

  • Claude, GPT, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek and Kimi models now move to their newest version automatically when one is released.
  • The model picker and council cards show each model's full name and version, such as Claude Sonnet 5.5, and you can search the picker by it.

Fixed

  • The Grok logo now shows in the model picker.
v1.0.0

Consensus AI 1.0: ask a council of AI models, get one answer

Our first numbered release: everything Consensus AI does today, from council answers to documents, sharing and plans. From now on, every change we ship gets a note like this one.

Added

  • Consensus mode: switch from Plain to Consensus and a council of two to five AI models answers your question in parallel, none seeing the others. You get one answer that weighs every response and works through where they conflict.
  • Build your own council: choose each member's model and stance (For, Against, Neutral, or a custom stance you write), add a label such as Skeptic, and pick Debate, Advocacy or Perspective, or let Auto choose the mode and say why.
  • Watch the council work: each member's card shows when it is queued, thinking, writing or done, and you can open any member's full response. If a member fails, you still get an answer as long as two members finish.
  • Sixteen models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI, DeepSeek and Moonshot AI, in Plain chat and in councils. Search the model picker, see which models handle tools, images and reasoning, and keep your last pick.
  • Replies stream in as they are written, with formatted text, highlighted code, math and diagrams, and each chat names itself. Edit a message you sent to get a fresh reply, copy messages, and upvote or downvote replies.
  • Type / in the message box for quick commands: start a new chat, switch models, change the theme, or delete one chat or all of them. New chats suggest prompts to start from, and asking about the weather shows a weather card.
  • Documents beside your chat: ask for a document, code or a spreadsheet and it opens in its own panel. Edit it yourself and it saves automatically, step back through earlier versions and restore one, and see what changed in text.
  • One-click document tools: Add final polish and Request suggestions for writing, with suggestions you apply one at a time; Add comments and Add logs for code; Format and clean data for spreadsheets, which copy out as CSV.
  • Your chats stay in the sidebar, grouped by date. Delete one chat or all of them, hide the sidebar with Cmd/Ctrl+B, and make a chat public so anyone signed in to Consensus AI can open it read-only from its link.
  • Accounts: sign up with email and password, verify your email, and reset a forgotten password. In Settings, pick Light, Dark or System appearance, change your name or password, sign out other sessions, or delete your account.
  • Plans: start free on Basic with three models, or choose Go, Plus, Pro or Max for all sixteen models and more monthly usage. Settings shows how much usage is left and when it resets, and lets you manage your plan and invoices.
  • When usage for paid models runs out, your chats carry on with a free model until it resets, and each reply says which model answered. Replay the tour from the account menu, where What's new shows a dot when something ships.