{"week":"2026-10-12 to 2026-10-18","date_range":"2026-09-15 to 2026-10-15","deal_changes":[{"vendor":"OpenAI Codex","change_type":"product_deprecated","date":"2026-10-14","date_source":"vendor_page","summary":"ChatGPT and Codex keep running. Only the GPT-5.5 model retires from ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work and Codex on all plans on 2026-10-14: OpenAI names GPT-6 Sol as the replacement on Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise and Edu plans and GPT-6 Luna on Free and Go plans. The OpenAI API is not affected.","what_ends":"GPT-5.5","tier":"Codex","tier_direction":"narrowed","previous_state":"GPT-5.5 available in ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work and Codex","current_state":"\"On October 14, 2026, GPT-5.5 will retire from ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work, and Codex on all plans, including consumer, Business, Enterprise, and Edu plans. This retirement does not apply to the OpenAI API.\" \"On Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Edu plans, choose GPT-6 Sol (gpt-6-sol) when available. On Free and Go plans, choose GPT-6 Luna (gpt-6-luna) in the desktop app when available.\" (learn.chatgpt.com/docs/models, read 2026-10-06)","impact":"medium","source_url":"https://learn.chatgpt.com/docs/models","category":"AI Coding","alternatives":[],"detected_by":"reverify-ai","recorded_date":"2026-09-22","listing_effect":"none","date_meaning":"effective","ends_a_free_tier":false},{"vendor":"Cursor","change_type":"pricing_restructured","date":"2026-10-12","date_source":"vendor_page","tier":"Free","summary":"From October 12, 2026, new subscribers buy Cursor as part of The X Subscription, one plan for Grok, Cursor and X: Free $0, Plus $8, Premium $30, Super $100 and Ultra $200 a month, with one weekly usage pool shared with Grok that covers Cursor's own models. Third-party models such as Claude, GPT and Gemini are not included in any plan: on Premium and above they cost the model's API list price, paid from prepaid credit, and Free and Plus cannot use them. Hobby, Pro ($20), Pro+ ($60), Ultra and the Teams Standard and Premium seats continue for existing subscribers until they switch.","previous_state":"Hobby (free: limited Agent requests, access to Composer), Pro $20/month, Pro+ $60/month, Ultra $200/month, Teams $40/user/month for a Standard seat or $120 for a Premium seat; monthly usage pools (cursor.com/pricing, read 2026-10-03)","current_state":"\"Today we’re introducing The X Subscription, which brings together Grok, Grok Bot, Cursor, and X Premium in one plan.\" (Cursor forum, 2026-10-12). \"Cursor is sold as part of The X Subscription, one subscription for Grok, Cursor, and X.\" Free $0, Plus $8/mo, Premium $30/mo (4x Plus), Super $100/mo (15x Plus), Ultra $200/mo (50x Plus); Teams $30, $100 or $200 per seat/mo. \"Third-party models like Claude, GPT, and Gemini aren't part of the included pool. On Premium and above, they're available in Cursor at the model's API list price from the first request, paid from your prepaid credit. Plus and Free don't include third-party models.\" (cursor.com/docs/models-and-pricing, read 2026-10-15)","impact":"high","source_url":"https://forum.cursor.com/t/introducing-the-x-subscription/174450","category":"AI Coding","alternatives":[],"recorded_date":"2026-10-15","date_meaning":"effective","ends_a_free_tier":false},{"vendor":"lensdump.com","change_type":"free_tier_removed","date":"2026-10-10","date_source":"vendor_page","summary":"Lensdump's Terms of Service, effective 10 October 2026, create every new account on a paid plan; the Free plan cannot be selected at sign-up and stays only with accounts that existed before paid plans were introduced.","tier":"Free","tier_direction":"narrowed","previous_state":"Free image hosting with no storage limits, 100 MB max file size, no compression","current_state":"New accounts must choose a paid plan, from Spark at $4 a month (10,000 images, 10 MB files). The Free plan is kept only by accounts created before paid plans were introduced, or created by Lensdump, and cannot be selected at sign-up (Terms of Service, effective 10 October 2026, section 6.2).","impact":"high","source_url":"https://lensdump.com/page/tos","category":"Design","alternatives":[],"detected_by":"reverify-ai","recorded_date":"2026-10-14","date_meaning":"effective","ends_a_free_tier":true},{"vendor":"Deno Deploy","change_type":"product_deprecated","date":"2026-10-09","date_source":"vendor_page","summary":"Deno Deploy keeps running for now. Deno announced on 2026-10-09 that it is joining Cloudflare and that Deno Deploy will keep running for six months and then shut down; Deno gave no exact date. Deno will help paying customers move to Cloudflare Workers.","what_ends":"Deno Deploy","listing_effect":"none","previous_state":"Deno Deploy was offered as an ongoing hosting service, with a Free plan and paid plans and no announced end.","current_state":"\"Deno Deploy will continue operating for six months before shutting down. We will provide migration support for paying customers moving to Cloudflare Workers.\"","impact":"high","source_url":"https://deno.com/blog/cloudflare","category":"Cloud Hosting","alternatives":[],"recorded_date":"2026-10-12","date_meaning":"effective","ends_a_free_tier":false},{"vendor":"AWS","change_type":"product_deprecated","date":"2026-10-07","summary":"AWS Proton reaches end of support on 2026-10-07, when its console and resources stop being accessible. AWS: \"Your deployed CloudFormation stacks and the resources they manage will remain intact and continue to function.\" New customers could not sign up after 2025-10-07.","previous_state":"Proton: managed IaC provisioning with developer self-service templates","current_state":"Proton: end of support 2026-10-07; deployed infrastructure keeps running","impact":"medium","source_url":"https://docs.aws.amazon.com/proton/latest/userguide/proton-end-of-support.html","category":"DevOps","alternatives":["AWS CDK","Terraform","Pulumi"],"recorded_date":"2026-04-10","date_source":"hand_written","source_check":{"checked":"2026-09-08","outcome":"ok","finding":"the page carries an End of support notice reading \"On October 7, 2026, AWS will end support for AWS Proton\""},"listing_effect":"none","date_meaning":"effective","ends_a_free_tier":false},{"vendor":"Together AI","change_type":"pricing_restructured","date":"2026-10-07","summary":"Together AI raised the minimum first credit purchase from $5 to $15; later purchases can still be $5. Its billing docs said $5 in the Internet Archive's capture of 2026-09-29 and have said $15 since the page was modified on 2026-10-07.","previous_state":"\"Access to the Together platform requires a minimum $5 credit purchase.\" (docs.together.ai/docs/billing-credits, Internet Archive capture of 2026-09-29)","current_state":"\"Access to the Together platform requires a minimum $15 credit purchase.\" and \"The minimum is $15 for your organization's first purchase and $5 after that.\" (docs.together.ai/docs/billing-credits, modified 2026-10-07)","source_url":"https://docs.together.ai/docs/billing-credits","impact":"low","category":"AI / ML","alternatives":[],"recorded_date":"2026-10-09","date_source":"hand_written","date_meaning":"effective","ends_a_free_tier":false},{"vendor":"Hugging Face","change_type":"limits_reduced","date":"2026-10-07","summary":"Hugging Face stopped giving free accounts included monthly Inference Providers credits; free users now have to buy credits or upgrade to PRO to call Inference Providers.","previous_state":"Free users received $0.10 a month of Inference Providers credits (\"Free Users $0.10, subject to change\"), read on 2026-10-05.","current_state":"\"Free users can use Inference Providers by purchasing credits, or by upgrading to PRO\"; the table lists Free Users with no monthly credits (\"None\"). Hugging Face's docs changed on 2026-10-07 (huggingface/hub-docs pull request 2865). PRO users still get $2.00 a month.","impact":"medium","source_url":"https://huggingface.co/docs/inference-providers/pricing","category":"AI / ML","alternatives":[],"recorded_date":"2026-10-12","date_source":"vendor_page","date_meaning":"effective","ends_a_free_tier":false},{"vendor":"Groq","change_type":"limits_reduced","date":"2026-10-06","summary":"Groq cut the free limits of gpt-oss-safeguard-20b from 30 to 3 requests a minute and from 8,000 to 2,000 tokens a minute; 1,000 requests and 200,000 tokens a day are unchanged. The Internet Archive's capture of console.groq.com/docs/rate-limits on 2026-09-28 lists 30 RPM and 8K TPM, and its capture of 2026-10-06 lists 3 RPM and 2K TPM. Groq announced no change. The other free chat models keep 30 requests and 8,000 tokens a minute.","tier":"Free","previous_state":"gpt-oss-safeguard-20b on the free plan: 30 requests a minute, 1,000 requests a day, 8,000 tokens a minute, 200,000 tokens a day","current_state":"gpt-oss-safeguard-20b on the free plan: 3 requests a minute, 1,000 requests a day, 2,000 tokens a minute, 200,000 tokens a day (Free Plan Limits table)","impact":"low","source_url":"http://web.archive.org/web/20261006074250/https://console.groq.com/docs/rate-limits","category":"AI / ML","alternatives":[],"recorded_date":"2026-10-10","date_source":"hand_written","date_meaning":"effective","ends_a_free_tier":false},{"vendor":"Browser Use","change_type":"limits_reduced","date":"2026-10-04","date_source":"hand_written","summary":"By October 4, 2026, Browser Use cut its one-time sign-up credit from $15 to $1. Its pricing page read \"$15 once per person\" on September 21 and \"$1 once per person\" on October 4; its homepage still said \"$15 free credits\" on September 29.","tier":"Free Credits","previous_state":"A one-time $15 credit for eligible Google, GitHub or Microsoft sign-ups: \"$ 15 once per person. Eligible Google, GitHub or Microsoft signups.\" (browser-use.com/pricing, Internet Archive 2026-09-21)","current_state":"\"Free is a one-time $1 credit granted to eligible Google, GitHub, or Microsoft signups; it does not renew, and free accounts are limited to cost-efficient models.\" (browser-use.com/pricing.md, read 2026-10-14)","impact":"high","source_url":"https://browser-use.com/pricing","category":"Browser Automation","alternatives":[],"recorded_date":"2026-10-14","archive_check":{"checked":"2026-10-14","outcome":"vendor_changed","brackets":[{"last_old":"2026-09-21","first_new":"2026-10-04","last_old_capture":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260921021809/https://browser-use.com/pricing","first_new_capture":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261004210720/https://browser-use.com/pricing"}]},"date_meaning":"effective","ends_a_free_tier":false},{"vendor":"Prisma Accelerate","change_type":"product_deprecated","date":"2026-10-02","discontinued_date":"2026-12-01","date_source":"vendor_page","summary":"Prisma stopped offering Accelerate for new setups in its Console by 2026-10-02, and Accelerate, including Prisma Postgres connections that go through it, is retired on 2026-12-01. Existing Accelerate connections keep working until then. Prisma Postgres keeps running, and its databases come with connection pooling.","what_ends":"Prisma Accelerate","listing_effect":"none","previous_state":"Prisma offered Accelerate, a managed connection pool and query cache, with a free plan, and its Console offered Accelerate when creating a database. From 2026-09-03 Prisma's docs gave December 1, 2026 as the retirement date for standalone Accelerate.","current_state":"\"Accelerate is retired on December 1, 2026, including Prisma Postgres connections that go through it. The Console no longer offers Accelerate for new setups.\" (prisma.io/changelog/2026-10-02)","impact":"high","source_url":"https://www.prisma.io/changelog/2026-10-02","category":"Databases","alternatives":[],"recorded_date":"2026-10-12","date_meaning":"effective","ends_a_free_tier":false},{"vendor":"Neon","change_type":"limits_increased","date":"2026-10-01","summary":"Neon raised the Free plan's Postgres storage from 0.5 GB to 1 GB per project and added a limit of 20 GB across all of an account's projects.","previous_state":"Free: 0.5 GB of storage per project, up to 100 projects. \"The Free plan is limited to 0.5 GB per project.\" (Neon's plans docs, Internet Archive capture of 2026-09-26)","current_state":"\"The Free plan is limited to 1 GB of Postgres storage per project, and to 20 GB in total across all your projects.\" (neon.com/docs/introduction/plans). Neon's docs change \"update Free plan storage limit\" merged on 2026-10-01.","source_url":"https://github.com/neondatabase/website/pull/5981","impact":"medium","category":"Databases","alternatives":[],"recorded_date":"2026-10-01","date_source":"vendor_page","date_meaning":"effective","ends_a_free_tier":false},{"vendor":"Fly.io","change_type":"pricing_restructured","date":"2026-10-01","summary":"Fly.io raised the price of memory on Machines to $6.00 per GB a month, from about $5, and left CPU prices unchanged. Every preset includes memory, so every preset costs more: shared-cpu-2x with 512 MB went from $3.89 to $4.39 a month in Ashburn and Secaucus, and performance-1x with 2 GB from $31.00 to $33.00. The smallest, shared-cpu-1x with 256 MB, is now $2.19.","previous_state":"Machines in Ashburn (iad) and Secaucus (ewr): shared-cpu-2x 512MB $3.89/month, performance-1x 2GB $31.00/month, each preset's price \"plus about $5 per 30 days per GB of additional RAM\" (fly.io/docs/about/pricing, Internet Archive capture of 2026-09-17)","current_state":"\"Effective October 1, 2026\": shared-cpu-1x 256MB $2.19/month, shared-cpu-2x 512MB $4.39, performance-1x 2GB $33.00; \"every one takes more RAM at $6.00 per GB per month, up to 128GB\"; \"Machine CPU pricing is unchanged.\" (fly.io/pricing-update)","impact":"medium","source_url":"https://fly.io/pricing-update/","category":"Cloud Hosting","alternatives":[],"recorded_date":"2026-10-02","date_source":"vendor_page","tier_direction":"unchanged","date_meaning":"effective","ends_a_free_tier":false},{"vendor":"Mockoon","change_type":"pricing_restructured","date":"2026-10-01","date_source":"vendor_page","summary":"Mockoon replaced its hosted Mockoon Cloud plans with self-hosted Mockoon Pro, launched in beta on 2026-10-01. The Team plan is now €10 per license a month, billed €120 per license a year, for self-hosting; before, Team was $100 a month billed annually for 5 members, 3 cloud-deployed mocks and 100,000 calls a month. A managed cloud is offered to Enterprise customers only. The open-source desktop app, CLI and Docker image stay free.","tier":"Team plan","tier_direction":"unchanged","previous_state":"Free and open-source desktop app for creating local API mocks — dynamic responses, request logging, record/replay and OpenAPI import. Mockoon Cloud adds hosted mocks and collaboration: Team is $100/month billed annually for 5 members, 3 deployed mocks and 100,000 calls/month, with a 14-day trial on a work email (7 days and a card otherwise).","current_state":"\"Mockoon Pro self-hosted is now available in beta\" (Mockoon blog, 2026-10-01). mockoon.com/pricing: \"Team plan Self-host Mockoon Pro on your own infrastructure € 10 /license/month (Tax excl.) billed €120/license/year\"; \"a managed cloud option for Enterprise customers\".","impact":"low","source_url":"https://mockoon.com/blog/mockoon-pro-self-hosted-beta/","category":"API Development","alternatives":[],"detected_by":"reverify-ai","recorded_date":"2026-10-03","date_meaning":"effective","ends_a_free_tier":false},{"vendor":"OVHcloud","change_type":"pricing_restructured","date":"2026-10-01","date_source":"vendor_page","tier":"Public Cloud","summary":"From 2026-10-01, OVHcloud bills the local storage and public IPv4 address of its Gen3 Public Cloud instances (B3, C3 and R3) as separate lines: local storage at €0.0001458 per GB an hour (about €109 per TB a month) and an IPv4 address at €0.0027 an hour (about €1.97 a month). Instance hourly prices do not change, so total bills rise 1.4% to 21.9% depending on size, most for small instances. Block, Object and File Storage prices do not change.","previous_state":"Gen3 Public Cloud instance prices included local storage and a public IPv4 address","current_state":"\"The hourly price of instances does not change. This price will be identical before and after October 1, 2026, for all ranges.\" Local storage (\"Local Low Latency\") €0.0001458/GB/hour; public IPv4 €0.0027/hour; total increases of \"1.4% to 21.9%, dependent on size\" (OVHcloud blog, \"Public Cloud: our prices are changing on 1 October 2026\", published 2026-08-25, read 2026-10-08).","impact":"medium","source_url":"https://blog.ovhcloud.com/en/posts/public-cloud-pricing-update-october-2026/","category":"Cloud IaaS","alternatives":["Hetzner","DigitalOcean","Vultr","AWS"],"recorded_date":"2026-10-08","date_meaning":"effective","ends_a_free_tier":false},{"vendor":"Exa","change_type":"limits_reduced","date":"2026-10-01","date_source":"hand_written","summary":"Between 2026-09-16 and 2026-10-01, Exa replaced the $20 sign-up credit with a one-time $10 bonus for completing onboarding, which only a user's first team earns. The $10 monthly credit, available in full on the day of sign-up, continues.","previous_state":"\"New accounts get $20 in free credits (around 2,800 searches) and the Free Tier adds $10 in credits every month.\" (exa.ai/docs/admin/pricing, Internet Archive capture of 2026-09-16)","current_state":"\"The Free Tier gives you $10 in credits (up to 2,500 Instant searches) the day you sign up ... Complete onboarding in the dashboard and your first team earns a one-time $10 bonus.\" (exa.ai/docs/admin/pricing, Internet Archive capture of 2026-10-01)","impact":"medium","source_url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261001232535/https://exa.ai/docs/admin/pricing","category":"AI / ML","alternatives":[],"recorded_date":"2026-10-10","date_meaning":"effective","ends_a_free_tier":false},{"vendor":"WhatsApp Business Platform","change_type":"limits_reduced","date":"2026-10-01","date_source":"hand_written","summary":"Meta resumed charging for WhatsApp service messages on 2026-10-01. Each business phone number gets 1,000 free service messages a month, and Meta charges from the 1,001st at the recipient market's service rate. Service messages had been free without a monthly limit since 2024-11-01. The same day, Meta began charging for utility templates sent inside an open customer service window, at the recipient market's utility rate; they had been free since 2025-07-01.","previous_state":"\"Service messages, which became free as of Nov. 1, 2024.\" \"Utility messages sent in response to users (thus in an open customer service window), which became free as of July 1, 2025.\" (Meta's pricing page, Prior updates, under \"Charging for messages that were previously free\", effective October 1, 2026)","current_state":"\"Meta provides every business phone number with a free tier of 1,000 service messages per month.\" \"Meta charges as of the 1,001st service message per month, after the free tier has been used.\" (Meta's pricing page, updated 2026-09-30) Utility templates sent in an open window are charged at the recipient market's utility rate from Meta's rate card effective October 1, 2026, for example $0.0034 a message to North America.","impact":"medium","source_url":"https://developers.facebook.com/documentation/business-messaging/whatsapp/pricing","category":"Messaging","alternatives":[],"recorded_date":"2026-10-11","date_meaning":"effective","ends_a_free_tier":false},{"vendor":"Modal","change_type":"limits_reduced","date":"2026-10-01","date_source":"vendor_page","summary":"Since October 1, 2026, Modal charges for network egress: the Starter plan includes 1 TiB a month, Team 10 TiB and Enterprise 100 TiB, and egress beyond that costs $0.04 per GiB.","previous_state":"Modal did not charge for network egress. From September 1, 2026, egress usage appeared on the Usage & Billing page with no charge.","current_state":"\"Starting October 1, 2026, Modal charges for network egress.\" Included per billing cycle: Starter 1 TiB, Team 10 TiB, Enterprise 100 TiB. \"Egress beyond the included amount is billed at $0.04 per GiB.\" Reads from and writes to Modal Volumes do not count as egress. (modal.com/docs/guide/network-egress-billing)","impact":"medium","source_url":"https://modal.com/docs/guide/network-egress-billing","category":"AI / ML","alternatives":[],"recorded_date":"2026-10-12","date_meaning":"effective","ends_a_free_tier":false},{"vendor":"AWS","change_type":"product_deprecated","date":"2026-09-30","summary":"AWS App Mesh reached end of support on 2026-09-30. AWS: \"After September 30, 2026, you will no longer be able to access the AWS App Mesh console or AWS App Mesh resources.\" AWS points App Mesh users to Amazon ECS Service Connect.","previous_state":"App Mesh: fully managed service mesh for ECS and EKS microservice networking","current_state":"App Mesh: end of support 2026-09-30; console and App Mesh resources inaccessible after that date","impact":"medium","source_url":"https://docs.aws.amazon.com/app-mesh/latest/userguide/what-is-app-mesh.html","category":"Cloud Hosting","alternatives":["Istio","Linkerd","Amazon EKS native service mesh"],"recorded_date":"2026-04-10","date_source":"hand_written","source_check":{"checked":"2026-09-08","outcome":"ok","finding":"the page carries an End of support notice reading \"On September 30, 2026, AWS will discontinue support for AWS App Mesh\""},"listing_effect":"none","date_meaning":"effective","ends_a_free_tier":false},{"vendor":"Pipedream","change_type":"product_deprecated","date":"2026-09-30","summary":"Pipedream stopped taking new signups and subscriptions for Workflows on 2026-09-30 and said Workflows and String will shut down on 2027-03-31. Existing workflows keep running until then. Pipedream Connect is not affected; its Free plan covers development only.","what_ends":"Pipedream Workflows and String","previous_state":"Pipedream Workflows took new signups, with a Free plan on pipedream.com/pricing (read 2026-09-24: \"100 credits/mo\").","current_state":"\"Workflows are now in maintenance mode. Your existing workflows will keep running normally through March 31, 2027, but we're no longer accepting signups or subscriptions\"; \"All Workflows data will be permanently deleted by April 30, 2027\" (pipedream.com/docs/workflows, modified 2026-09-30).","impact":"high","source_url":"https://pipedream.com/docs/workflows","category":"Workflow Automation","alternatives":[],"recorded_date":"2026-10-01","date_source":"hand_written","listing_effect":"ends","date_meaning":"effective","ends_a_free_tier":true},{"vendor":"OpenAI","change_type":"product_deprecated","date":"2026-09-28","summary":"gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct, babbage-002, davinci-002 and gpt-3.5-turbo-1106 shut down in the OpenAI API on September 28, 2026. OpenAI names gpt-5.6-terra as the replacement.","previous_state":"The four models were callable in the OpenAI API at pay-as-you-go rates.","current_state":"OpenAI's deprecations page lists September 28, 2026 as the date after which the four models are no longer accessible.","impact":"low","source_url":"https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/deprecations","category":"AI / ML","alternatives":[],"recorded_date":"2026-09-27","date_source":"hand_written","listing_effect":"none","date_meaning":"effective","ends_a_free_tier":false},{"vendor":"OpenAI","change_type":"product_deprecated","date":"2026-09-24","summary":"Sora 2 video generation in the OpenAI API shut down on September 24, 2026: OpenAI removed the Videos API and the sora-2 and sora-2-pro models, and names no replacement.","previous_state":"The OpenAI API offered Sora 2 and Sora 2 Pro video generation through the Videos API, billed per second of video.","current_state":"The Videos API and the Sora 2 models are no longer available in the OpenAI API.","impact":"medium","source_url":"https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models/sora-2","category":"AI / ML","alternatives":[],"recorded_date":"2026-09-27","date_source":"hand_written","listing_effect":"none","date_meaning":"effective","ends_a_free_tier":false},{"vendor":"Groq","change_type":"product_deprecated","date":"2026-09-21","date_source":"vendor_page","summary":"Groq keeps running. Groq decommissioned its Compound and Compound Mini systems, model IDs groq/compound and groq/compound-mini, on September 21, 2026, after announcing it on August 24; requests to those IDs return errors. Groq named no replacement.","what_ends":"Groq Compound and Compound Mini","listing_effect":"none","previous_state":"Groq offered its Compound and Compound Mini systems through the API under the model IDs groq/compound and groq/compound-mini.","current_state":"\"On August 24, 2026, we announced the deprecation of groq/compound and groq/compound-mini. Both systems will be decommissioned on September 21, 2026. Beginning on that date, requests to these model IDs will return errors.\" (console.groq.com/docs/deprecations)","impact":"medium","source_url":"https://console.groq.com/docs/deprecations","category":"AI / ML","alternatives":[],"recorded_date":"2026-10-12","date_meaning":"effective","ends_a_free_tier":false},{"vendor":"Postman","change_type":"limits_reduced","date":"2026-09-18","summary":"Postman's Free plan no longer includes cloud performance testing. Its pricing table gave Free \"Performance testing (unlimited runs)\" on the Internet Archive's capture of 2026-08-20, cloud runs at $0.04 per virtual-user hour on 2026-09-09, and marks cloud performance testing unavailable on Free from the capture of 2026-09-18; local performance testing stays unlimited. In the same window the table stopped calling Free's mock servers unlimited, and it states no limit for them.","previous_state":"Free: \"Performance testing (unlimited runs)\" and \"Unlimited cloud & local mock servers\" (postman.com/pricing comparison table, capture of 2026-08-20)","current_state":"Free: \"Unlimited local performance testing\"; \"Cloud performance testing\" unavailable, \"$0.04 / VuH\" on the paid plans; \"Mock Servers\" (capture of 2026-09-18)","impact":"medium","source_url":"http://web.archive.org/web/20260918150023/https://www.postman.com/pricing/","category":"Testing","alternatives":[],"recorded_date":"2026-10-01","date_source":"hand_written","date_meaning":"effective","ends_a_free_tier":false},{"vendor":"Google Gemini API","change_type":"restriction","date":"2026-09-18","summary":"Since 2026-09-18 Google serves the Gemini 2.5 models only to users who have used them before, and points new projects to 3.5 Flash-Lite or 3.8 Flash.","previous_state":"Access to the Gemini 2.5 models was not limited to users who had used them before.","current_state":"\"we are limiting access to the 2.5 models to users who have actively used them in the past. These models are not deprecated and will continue to be served until further notice through the API. For any new projects, use our latest models: 3.5 Flash-Lite or 3.8 Flash.\" (Gemini API changelog, September 18, 2026, \"Gemini 2.5 models access update\")","impact":"medium","source_url":"https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/changelog","category":"AI / ML","alternatives":[],"recorded_date":"2026-10-03","date_source":"vendor_page","tier":"Gemini 2.5 models","date_meaning":"effective","ends_a_free_tier":false},{"vendor":"Google","change_type":"pricing_restructured","date":"2026-09-18","date_source":"hand_written","summary":"On 2026-09-18 Google stopped renewing every remaining standalone Google Developer Program Premium subscription, Workspace accounts included. Monthly subscribers keep Premium benefits until 2026-10-18 and annual subscribers until 2027-09-18; their membership then returns to the standard tier. Google recommends AI Pro or AI Ultra for consumers, and Gemini Enterprise for enterprises.","previous_state":"Before 2026-09-18, Premium on personal accounts had stopped renewing, but Premium on Workspace accounts was still renewing.","current_state":"\"Since September 18, 2026, existing subscriptions can no longer be renewed.\" \"Existing monthly plan subscribers: Can continue to enjoy benefits until October 18, 2026. Existing annual plan subscribers: Can continue to enjoy benefits until September 18, 2027.\" (Google Developer Program FAQ, updated 2026-10-07)","impact":"medium","source_url":"https://developers.google.com/profile/help/faq","category":"Cloud IaaS","alternatives":["Google AI Pro/Ultra"],"recorded_date":"2026-10-11","date_meaning":"effective","ends_a_free_tier":false},{"vendor":"CockroachDB","change_type":"free_tier_removed","date":"2026-09-15","date_source":"vendor_page","summary":"CockroachDB stopped offering its free Basic plan (50 million RUs and 10 GiB of storage free per month) to new deployments on 2026-09-15, when it moved new clusters to Cockroach Continuum pricing. New Cloud organizations now get a 30-day free trial with $400 in credit. 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Paid plans are Plus $8/month, Premium $30/month (4x Plus's usage), Super $100/month (15x) and Ultra $200/month (50x), or $80, $300, $1,000 and $2,000 a year. Each paid plan's usage is one weekly pool shared with Grok, covering Grok 4.7, Grok 4.6, Grok 4.5 and Cursor's Composer 2.5. Claude, GPT, Gemini and other third-party models are outside every plan's pool: on Premium and above they cost the model's API list price, paid from prepaid credit, and Free and Plus cannot use them or your own API keys. Teams seats are $30, $100 or $200 per user a month, and on Teams and Enterprise third-party models cost API list price plus the Cursor Token Rate. Existing Hobby, Pro ($20), Pro+ ($60), Ultra and Teams Standard and Premium subscribers keep their plans, with monthly usage pools and included third-party usage, until they choose to switch. Cursor announced the change on its forum on 2026-10-12 (forum.cursor.com/t/introducing-the-x-subscription/174450).","conditions":[{"text":"Cursor's data-use page says that with Privacy Mode off it may use and store your codebase data, prompts, editor actions and code snippets to train its models. To keep your code out of training, check that Privacy Mode is on in Cursor's settings; any user can turn it on.","quote":"If you choose to turn off “Privacy Mode”: we may use and store codebase data, prompts, editor actions, code snippets, and other code data and actions to improve our AI features and train our models.","url":"https://cursor.com/data-use","read_on":"2026-10-15"}],"terms_superseded":null},{"vendor":"Anchor Browser","category":"Browser Automation","description":"Cloud browsers for AI agents. The Free plan gives $5 of credit each month, 5 concurrent browsers, 5 new sessions a minute, the US region only and 7-day data retention (Anchor's docs), without CAPTCHA solving, full stealth or a choice of location. Usage costs $0.01 per browser created and $0.05 per browser-hour. Since August 21, 2026, AI tasks are billed per step by the tier of the model that runs them: $0.01 for Light models such as GPT-5 Mini and Gemini Flash Lite, $0.05 for Standard models such as Claude Haiku 4.5 and GPT-5, and $0.10 for High Performance models such as Claude Sonnet, Claude Opus and GPT-5.5; with your own model key, every step is a flat $0.01. Before that date every AI step cost $0.01. Anchor's proxy costs $8 per GB and proxyless egress $0.20 per GB, and Free cannot use its own proxy. Starter is $50 a month.","terms_superseded":null},{"vendor":"PostHog","category":"Analytics","description":"Product analytics — 1M events/month, 5K session replays, 1M feature flag requests, 100K error events, A/B testing. No credit card required","terms_superseded":null},{"vendor":"Backblaze","category":"Storage","description":"Flamethrower Startup Program — up to $100K in B2 Cloud Storage credits. For founders and small teams building data-heavy products (AI/ML, media, gaming, SaaS). Launched Feb 2026","terms_superseded":null},{"vendor":"Crowdin","category":"Localization","description":"Localization management. The Free plan is $0 a month: 60,000 hosted words, 1 private project, unlimited public projects, 1 integration, unlimited translators and Crowdin AI. Users on the Free plan donate their translations to Crowdin's translation memory. Pro starts at $50 a month (2 private projects), Team at $150 and Team+ at $450. Open-source and non-profit projects can apply for a free Open Source License. The CDN for over-the-air translations is free up to 1M requests and 10 GB of data transfer. CLI, GitHub integration, REST API","terms_superseded":null},{"vendor":"Roboflow","category":"AI / ML","description":"Computer vision platform for labeling, training and deploying models. On September 18, 2026 Roboflow announced a free tier for its Core plan: 10 credits that refresh every month, private projects and models, and model weight download. More credits can be bought. Credits pay for storage, labeling, training and cloud deployment; running models on your own hardware with Roboflow Inference uses none. Core's data licensing and model training setting is on by default, including for private projects; a workspace can turn it off. 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Free plan includes two users, scanning of 10 repos, 1 cloud, 2 containers & 1 domain.","terms_superseded":null},{"vendor":"GraphComment","category":"Communication","description":"GraphComment is a comments platform that helps you build an active community from the website’s audience.","terms_superseded":null}],"upcoming_deadlines":[{"vendor":"Google Gemini API","date":"2026-10-22","change_type":"product_deprecated","summary":"The Gemini API keeps running. Gemini Omni Flash Preview (gemini-omni-flash-preview) and the Veo 3.1 preview models (veo-3.1-generate-preview, veo-3.1-fast-generate-preview and veo-3.1-lite-generate-preview) can be called until October 22, 2026, when Google shuts them down. Google names gemini-omni-1.1-flash as the replacement for all four."},{"vendor":"OpenAI","date":"2026-10-23","change_type":"product_deprecated","summary":"The OpenAI API keeps running. The gpt-3.5-turbo, gpt-4, gpt-4-turbo, gpt-4-1106-preview, gpt-4.1-nano, gpt-4o-2024-05-13, gpt-image-1, o1, o1-pro, o3-mini and o4-mini models, with their fine-tuned versions, can be called until October 23, 2026, when OpenAI shuts down their access. OpenAI names a substitute for each model: gpt-3.5-turbo to gpt-5.6-terra; gpt-4, gpt-4-turbo, gpt-4-1106-preview and gpt-4o-2024-05-13 to gpt-5.6-sol; gpt-4.1-nano to gpt-5.6-luna; gpt-image-1 to gpt-image-2.5-sunburst or gpt-image-2.5-flare; o1 to gpt-5.6-sol; o1-pro to gpt-5.6-sol with reasoning.mode: pro; o3-mini to gpt-5.6-sol; o4-mini to gpt-5.6-terra."},{"vendor":"Google Gemini API","date":"2026-10-23","change_type":"product_deprecated","summary":"The Gemini API keeps running. The Deep Research agent preview deep-research-pro-preview-12-2025 can be called until October 23, 2026, when Google shuts it down. Google names deep-research-preview-04-2026 as the replacement."},{"vendor":"apiary.io","date":"2026-10-31","change_type":"product_deprecated","summary":"Apiary reaches end of life on 2026-10-31, when Oracle stops the service and deletes remaining instances. Oracle announced it on 2025-10-28. The Free plan is the only one still open, so it ends with the product. Oracle instructed customers using the API Blueprint format to convert to OpenAPI and move the files to tools such as Apimatic, Postman, Swagger Editor, Stoplight, Redocly, or Bump.sh."},{"vendor":"Google Gemini API","date":"2026-11-17","change_type":"product_deprecated","summary":"The Gemini API keeps running. The text-to-speech previews gemini-2.5-flash-preview-tts, gemini-2.5-pro-preview-tts and gemini-3.1-flash-tts-preview, and the Live API previews gemini-3.1-flash-live-preview and gemini-2.5-flash-native-audio-preview-12-2025, can be called until November 17, 2026, when Google shuts them down. Google names gemini-3.8-flash-tts or gemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts as the replacement for each text-to-speech preview, and gemini-3.8-live for both Live API previews."},{"vendor":"Auth0","date":"2026-11-18","change_type":"product_deprecated","summary":"Auth0 keeps running. Auth0 Rules and Hooks reach end of life on November 18, 2026, when they stop executing and are removed. They have been read-only since November 18, 2024, and tenants created from October 16, 2023 never had them. Auth0 says to move to Actions."},{"vendor":"OpenAI","date":"2026-11-30","change_type":"product_deprecated","summary":"The OpenAI API keeps running. Agent Builder, the Evals platform and the v1/prompts API can be used until November 30, 2026. Existing evals become read-only on October 31, 2026. ChatKit remains available. Migrate from Agent Builder to the Agents SDK or ChatGPT Workspace Agents. Migrate from Evals to Promptfoo. Move reusable prompt content into application code."},{"vendor":"Anthropic API","date":"2026-11-30","change_type":"product_deprecated","summary":"Claude Sonnet 4.5 (claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929) retires from the Claude API on 2026-11-30, and requests to it fail after that date. Anthropic deprecated it on 2026-09-30 and names claude-sonnet-5-5 as the replacement. The Claude API and Anthropic's other models keep running. Amazon Bedrock and Google Cloud set their own retirement dates."},{"vendor":"OpenAI","date":"2026-12-01","change_type":"product_deprecated","summary":"The OpenAI API keeps running. The gpt-image-1-mini, gpt-image-1.5 and chatgpt-image-latest models can be called until December 1, 2026. OpenAI's substitutes are gpt-image-2.5-sunburst or gpt-image-2.5-flare."},{"vendor":"OpenAI","date":"2026-12-11","change_type":"product_deprecated","summary":"The OpenAI API keeps running. gpt-5-2025-08-07 is available until December 11, 2026, replaced by gpt-5.6-sol. gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 is available until December 11, 2026, replaced by gpt-5.6-terra. gpt-5-nano-2025-08-07 is available until December 11, 2026, replaced by gpt-5.6-luna. gpt-5-pro-2025-10-06 is available until December 11, 2026, replaced by gpt-5.6-sol with reasoning.mode: pro. o3-2025-04-16 is available until December 11, 2026, replaced by gpt-5.6-sol. o3-pro-2025-06-10 is available until December 11, 2026, replaced by gpt-5.6-sol with reasoning.mode: pro."},{"vendor":"OpenAI","date":"2027-01-06","change_type":"product_deprecated","summary":"The OpenAI API keeps running. The tts-1, tts-1-hd, gpt-4o-mini-tts-2025-03-20 and gpt-4o-mini-tts-2025-12-15 models can be called until January 6, 2027. OpenAI's replacement for each: gpt-realtime-2.1-mini."},{"vendor":"OpenAI","date":"2027-01-14","change_type":"product_deprecated","summary":"The OpenAI API keeps running. The gpt-4o (gpt-4o-2024-08-06 and gpt-4o-2024-11-20), gpt-4o-mini, gpt-4.1 and gpt-4.1-mini models, with their fine-tuned versions, can be called until January 14, 2027, when OpenAI shuts down their access. OpenAI names gpt-6-luna as the replacement for all four."},{"vendor":"OpenAI","date":"2027-01-20","change_type":"product_deprecated","summary":"The OpenAI API keeps running. The gpt-realtime, gpt-4o-realtime, gpt-realtime-mini, gpt-4o-mini-realtime, gpt-audio, gpt-4o-audio, gpt-audio-mini, gpt-4o-mini-audio and gpt-4o-mini-transcribe-2025-03-20 models can be called until January 20, 2027. OpenAI's substitutes: gpt-realtime-2.1 for gpt-realtime and gpt-4o-realtime; gpt-realtime-2.1-mini for gpt-realtime-mini and gpt-4o-mini-realtime; gpt-audio-1.5 for gpt-audio, gpt-4o-audio, gpt-audio-mini and gpt-4o-mini-audio; gpt-4o-mini-transcribe-2025-12-15 for gpt-4o-mini-transcribe-2025-03-20."},{"vendor":"OpenAI","date":"2027-02-26","change_type":"product_deprecated","summary":"The OpenAI API keeps running. The whisper-1, gpt-4o-transcribe, gpt-4o-mini-transcribe and gpt-4o-transcribe-diarize models can be called until February 26, 2027. OpenAI's substitute for each is gpt-live-transcribe or gpt-transcribe."},{"vendor":"Google Gemini API","date":"2027-03-15","change_type":"product_deprecated","summary":"The Gemini API keeps running. Gemini 2.5 Flash Image (gemini-2.5-flash-image) can be called until March 15, 2027, when Google shuts it down. Google names gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image as the replacement."},{"vendor":"OpenAI","date":"2027-04-01","change_type":"product_deprecated","summary":"The OpenAI API keeps running. The gpt-5.3-codex, gpt-5.1 and gpt-5.4-nano models can be called until April 1, 2027. OpenAI's replacements: gpt-6-sol for gpt-5.3-codex and gpt-5.1; gpt-6-luna for gpt-5.4-nano."},{"vendor":"Google Gemini API","date":"2027-05-07","change_type":"product_deprecated","summary":"The Gemini API keeps running. Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite (gemini-3.1-flash-lite) can be called until May 7, 2027, when Google shuts it down. Google names gemini-3.5-flash-lite as the replacement."},{"vendor":"Google Gemini API","date":"2028-05-14","change_type":"product_deprecated","summary":"The Gemini API keeps running. The embedding model gemini-embedding-001 can be called until May 14, 2028, when Google shuts it down. 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