12 events for developer tools during March 30–April 5, 2026: 10 pricing changes tracked and 1 deadline our listings state and 1 deadline stated in earlier change records. 1 more recorded with no known effective date.

Pricing Changes: March 30–April 5, 2026

12 events in week 14, 2026: 10 changes tracked and 1 deadline our listings state and 1 deadline stated in earlier change records. 1 more recorded with no known effective date.

12 events

10 changes

2 stated deadlines

1 new tier

6 restructured

1 removed

1 restricted

1 deprecated

1 first read

High Impact (5)

restructured Hetzner effective 2026-04-01 Cloud Hosting

Hetzner raised prices on 2026-04-01 for new orders and existing products: cloud servers by 30-37% (CX23 €2.99 to €3.99 a month in Germany and Finland), load balancers by 31-39%, Object Storage's base price by 30%, dedicated servers by 2-21% and Server Auction servers by 3%. Superseded 2026-06-15: Hetzner ran a second adjustment across all cloud and dedicated lines, applying to new orders and rescales only. Read from hetzner.com on 2026-09-03: CX23 is €5.99 and is marked "not available", as is every other Cost-Optimized plan, and the cheapest orderable plan is CPX12 at €11.99/mo. Source ↗

restructured OVHcloud effective 2026-04-01 Cloud IaaS

OVHcloud raised prices on its VPS 2026 range from 2026-04-01. Its announcement of 2026-03-05 lists euro list prices up 36-49%, with VPS-1 from €4.49 to €6.49 a month and VPS-4 from €24.99 to €36.99; existing services moved at the end of their current term. New orders had moved already: the US page's 12-month price for VPS-1 went from $4.20 to $6.46 between captures of 2026-02-23 and 2026-03-04. Source ↗

restructured HCP Terraform effective 2026-03-31 Infrastructure

HashiCorp's legacy free plan for HCP Terraform reached end of life on March 31, 2026. Legacy free plan users were auto-migrated to the enhanced free tier with different limits: 500 managed resources (previously unlimited for small teams), unlimited users, 1 concurrent run, SSO, and policy as code (Sentinel + OPA) Source ↗

deprecated smartlook.com effective 2026-03-31 Analytics

Smartlook shuts down on 2027-09-30. Source ↗

restructured Google effective 2026-03-30 Cloud IaaS

Standalone Google Developer Program Premium stopped renewing on personal (@gmail.com) accounts: annual plans after 2026-03-30, monthly plans after 2026-06-30. Google had begun folding its benefits, including Cloud credits, into Google AI Pro and AI Ultra on 2026-01-27. Premium on Workspace accounts did not change. Source ↗

Medium Impact (4)

new tier OpenAI Codex effective 2026-04-02 AI Coding

OpenAI added Codex-only seats for ChatGPT Business and Enterprise workspaces, with no fixed seat fee, no rate limits and usage billed on token consumption, and cut ChatGPT Business's annual price from $25 to $20 per seat. Standard Business seats, which include Codex with usage limits, continued. Source ↗

restricted Google Gemini API effective 2026-04-01 AI / ML

Google began enforcing billing-account-level spend caps on April 1, 2026. When a tier's spend cap is reached, API requests pause until the next billing month. Affects pay-as-you-go developers who may see unexpected request pausing. Source ↗

restructured OVHcloud effective 2026-04-01 Cloud IaaS

OVHcloud Public Cloud, Private Cloud, and Bare Metal prices increased 9-11% for deployments made 2026-2028. Pre-2025 deployments see smaller 2-6% increase depending on equipment age. IPv4 pricing also increased. Driven by same DRAM/NVMe cost surge as VPS increases. Source ↗

removed odrive effective 2026-03-31 Storage

odrive free tier discontinued effective March 31, 2026. Previously free unified cloud storage sync across multiple providers (Google Drive, Dropbox, S3, etc.). Source ↗

Low Impact (1)

restructured Replit effective 2026-04-01 Cloud IDE

Replit Core plan dropped from $25/month to $20/month (now includes 5 collaborators). New Pro plan added at $100/month with Agent modes, tiered credits, and up to 15 builders. Teams plan sunset (auto-migrated to Pro). Free tier unchanged (limited AI credits, basic compute) Source ↗

Deadlines stated for March 30–April 5, 2026 (2)

1 deadline our listings state and 1 deadline stated in earlier change records. These are quoted dates, not additional change records.

stated deadline Terragrunt Scale 2026-03-31 Infrastructure

It positioned the tier as an alternative to the HCP Terraform free tier ahead of HashiCorp's March 31, 2026 end of life for that tier, "with matching or higher limits compared to HCP Terraform". Source ↗

stated deadline Together AI 2026-03-31 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 ↗

Effective date unknown (1)

1 change recorded during March 30–April 5, 2026 has no known effective date. It is dated the day we recorded it, not the day its terms took effect, so it is not counted as a change that took effect during March 30–April 5, 2026. Where archived copies of the vendor's page bracket a change, it is dated by the first copy that shows the new terms.

increased Microsoft for Startups effective between 2026-03-29 and 2026-04-04 Cloud IaaS

Microsoft for Startups' homepage replaced its two credit offers with one. The Internet Archive's copy of microsoft.com/en-us/startups from 2026-03-29 offers up to $150,000 in Azure credits to startups associated with Microsoft's Investor Network and up to $5,000 through an Azure free trial to the rest; its copy of 2026-04-04 offers up to $150,000 in credits with no split. Source ↗

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