Pricing Changes: December 29 – January 4, 2026

Google for Startups Cloud Program now offers up to $350K GCP credits for AI-first startups, plus $10K Anthropic (Claude) partner credits via Model Garden Source ↗

Docker Desktop subscription prices increased 67-80% across all tiers. Personal $7→$11, Pro $9→$14, Team $15→$24, Business $24→$35 per user/month. Separate from Docker Hub registry pricing changes Source ↗

EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML GPU prices increased ~15% across regions. p5e.48xlarge went from $34.61 to $39.80/hr (US East) and $43.26 to $49.75/hr (US West N. California) Source ↗

Forge platform moved from free to consumption-based billing for compute and storage Source ↗

Volume snapshots now billed — previously free automatic snapshots now cost $0.08/GB-month Source ↗

Pro plan moved to credit-based model ($20/mo credit pool), Hobby plan metrics renamed and restructured — bandwidth→Fast Data Transfer, serverless split into Active CPU + Provisioned Memory, Blob Storage and Image Transformations added Source ↗

Droplets moved from hourly to per-second billing (with a minimum charge of 60 seconds or $0.01, whichever is higher) Source ↗

Self-hosted runner per-minute fee ($0.002/min) announced for March 2026 was postponed indefinitely after community backlash. Self-hosted runners remain free. Separately, hosted runner prices were reduced up to 39% (Jan 2026) Source ↗