9 events for developer tools during March 2–8, 2026: 7 pricing changes tracked and 2 deadlines our listings state.

Pricing Changes: March 2–8, 2026

9 events in week 10, 2026: 7 changes tracked and 2 deadlines our listings state.

9 events
7 changes
2 stated deadlines
2 restricted
3 removed
1 rebranded
1 reduced

High Impact (2)

removed Freshping effective 2026-03-06 Monitoring
Freshping shut down entirely. Free accounts disabled March 6, 2026. Paid plans expire at end of term. All data deleted 90 days later (~June 4, 2026). No replacement product offered by Freshworks Source ↗
restricted Xero Developer API effective 2026-03-02 API Gateway
Xero retired its revenue-share model on 2 March 2026 for five plans priced by connections and data egress. The free Starter plan allows up to 5 connected organisations; Core costs AUD 35 a month for up to 50. Data from Xero's APIs may not be used to train AI or machine-learning models Source ↗

Medium Impact (1)

restricted Google Gemini API effective 2026-03-02 AI / ML
Accounts opened after 2026-03-02 cannot spend the $300 Google Cloud welcome credit on the Gemini API or AI Studio. Source ↗

Low Impact (4)

reduced Plunk effective 2026-03-07 Email
Free tier reduced from 3,000 to 1,000 emails/month. Plunk's home page said "Send up to 3000 emails for free every month" in the Internet Archive's copy of 2026-03-06 and "1,000 emails free every month. Then $0.001 per email" in its copy of 2026-03-07. Source ↗
removed Zenkit effective 2026-03-06 Project Management
Zenkit removed its free Personal plan from its pricing page between 2026-02-03 and 2026-03-06. Plus, Team, Business and Enterprise remain, with a 14-day trial. Source ↗
removed HostedScan effective 2026-03-05 Security
HostedScan removed its Free plan (Lite Scans, up to 3 targets) between 2026-01-25 and 2026-03-05; Basic, with a free trial, became the entry plan. Source ↗
rebranded Compare JSON effective 2026-03-03 Dev Utilities
DiffJSON was renamed Compare JSON between 2026-02-26 and 2026-03-03, and diffjson.com now 301-redirects to comparejson.com. The tool stayed free, with no sign-up and no pricing. Source ↗

Deadlines stated for March 2–8, 2026 (2)

2 deadlines our listings state. These are quoted dates, not additional change records.

stated deadline Neptune.ai 2026-03-05 AI / ML
After agreeing to be acquired by OpenAI, Neptune closed new sign-ups and trials on December 3, 2025, and set March 5, 2026 as the day its hosted app and API would be turned off and remaining hosted data deleted; on 2026-09-27 neptune.ai returned errors. Source ↗
stated deadline Together AI 2026-03-06 AI / ML
Together also removed these models from serverless inference in 2026, so requests for them fail: openai/gpt-oss-20b on 2026-09-15 (Together recommends Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B); google/gemma-4-31B-it on 2026-09-15 (recommended: zai-org/GLM-5.3-Flash); zai-org/GLM-5.1 on 2026-07-10; Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct-FP8 on 2026-06-04; deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 on 2026-05-14; deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.1 on 2026-05-14; meta-llama/Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128E-Instruct-FP8 on 2026-03-31; meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-Turbo on 2026-03-06; meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct-Turbo on 2026-02-25; meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-405B-Instruct-Turbo on 2026-02-06; meta-llama/Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct on 2026-02-06. Source ↗

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