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Current Unkey Situation

Risk Level: stable
Category: API Gateway
Pricing Page: www.unkey.com/pricing

Recent Pricing Changes (2)

increased effective 2026-11-05 low impact
On November 5, 2026, Unkey's pricing page raised the Free API plan's log retention from 1 day to 7 days and its audit log retention from 3 days to 30 days. Pro went from 7 and 14 days to 90 days of each. Unkey's commit is titled "Fix API Management log retention on the pricing page" and reads: "Free is 7 days of logs and 30 days of audit logs (was 1 / 3 days)." Keys, requests and the $0 price are unchanged. Source ↗
reduced discovered 2026-08-28 · effective date unknown medium impact
No longer in force (2026-11-05). Log retention on the free plan narrowed from 7 days to 1, and audit log retention from 30 days to 3. Keys, requests and APIs are unchanged and the plan is still priced at nothing. Reversed 2026-11-05: Unkey's pricing page again gives the Free API plan 7 days of log retention and 30 days of audit log retention. Unkey's commit of 2026-11-05 reads: "Free is 7 days of logs and 30 days of audit logs (was 1 / 3 days)." Source ↗

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