diff --git a/.release-please-manifest.json b/.release-please-manifest.json
index b64d3dcb..6b6edec6 100644
--- a/.release-please-manifest.json
+++ b/.release-please-manifest.json
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 {
-  ".": "5.43.0"
+  ".": "5.44.0"
 }
diff --git a/.stats.yml b/.stats.yml
index e572dc25..a6cf36af 100644
--- a/.stats.yml
+++ b/.stats.yml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 configured_endpoints: 126
-openapi_spec_url: https://storage.googleapis.com/stainless-sdk-openapi-specs/orb%2Forb-9f1a41612765cb08d100b2c9e85080e93306e8d0942d535f16052c3eb18d9b8b.yml
-openapi_spec_hash: 6dd28f36adc7e7d6a9245585eaf9b9c1
+openapi_spec_url: https://storage.googleapis.com/stainless-sdk-openapi-specs/orb%2Forb-931771ff4ab183044ee50ce43ea794ac0a15bfafbaf7df61ac0344af3ff08944.yml
+openapi_spec_hash: 71371804e373f662585284bf5d93cc62
 config_hash: bcf82bddb691f6be773ac6cae8c03b9a
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 59f291a2..600830bf 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,18 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## 5.44.0 (2026-02-03)
+
+Full Changelog: [v5.43.0...v5.44.0](https://github.com/orbcorp/orb-node/compare/v5.43.0...v5.44.0)
+
+### Features
+
+* **api:** api update ([e416790](https://github.com/orbcorp/orb-node/commit/e416790073c3b73cdcb84d963a90f3c954f61a25))
+
+
+### Chores
+
+* **client:** do not parse responses with empty content-length ([c494aed](https://github.com/orbcorp/orb-node/commit/c494aed5c72aedd6e0f5d1e0a2e73dbc3cf78713))
+
 ## 5.43.0 (2026-01-23)
 
 Full Changelog: [v5.42.0...v5.43.0](https://github.com/orbcorp/orb-node/compare/v5.42.0...v5.43.0)
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index c185d14d..ea6a6c42 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "orb-billing",
-  "version": "5.43.0",
+  "version": "5.44.0",
   "description": "The official TypeScript library for the Orb API",
   "author": "Orb <team@withorb.com>",
   "types": "dist/index.d.ts",
diff --git a/src/core.ts b/src/core.ts
index ad818e3a..961aff1f 100644
--- a/src/core.ts
+++ b/src/core.ts
@@ -70,6 +70,12 @@ async function defaultParseResponse<T>(props: APIResponseProps): Promise<T> {
   const mediaType = contentType?.split(';')[0]?.trim();
   const isJSON = mediaType?.includes('application/json') || mediaType?.endsWith('+json');
   if (isJSON) {
+    const contentLength = response.headers.get('content-length');
+    if (contentLength === '0') {
+      // if there is no content we can't do anything
+      return undefined as T;
+    }
+
     const json = await response.json();
 
     debug('response', response.status, response.url, response.headers, json);
diff --git a/src/resources/alerts.ts b/src/resources/alerts.ts
index dde07be2..7e3ab7c9 100644
--- a/src/resources/alerts.ts
+++ b/src/resources/alerts.ts
@@ -224,13 +224,19 @@ export interface Alert {
     | 'credit_balance_dropped'
     | 'credit_balance_recovered'
     | 'usage_exceeded'
-    | 'cost_exceeded';
+    | 'cost_exceeded'
+    | 'license_balance_threshold_reached';
 
   /**
    * The current status of the alert. This field is only present for credit balance
    * alerts.
    */
   balance_alert_status?: Array<Alert.BalanceAlertStatus> | null;
+
+  /**
+   * Minified license type for alert serialization.
+   */
+  license_type?: Alert.LicenseType | null;
 }
 
 export namespace Alert {
@@ -273,6 +279,13 @@ export namespace Alert {
      */
     threshold_value: number;
   }
+
+  /**
+   * Minified license type for alert serialization.
+   */
+  export interface LicenseType {
+    id: string;
+  }
 }
 
 /**
diff --git a/src/version.ts b/src/version.ts
index f7ca7683..407974e3 100644
--- a/src/version.ts
+++ b/src/version.ts
@@ -1 +1 @@
-export const VERSION = '5.43.0'; // x-release-please-version
+export const VERSION = '5.44.0'; // x-release-please-version