Week 16, 2026. 71 changes tracked.
Medium Impact (10)
ImageEngine's free developer program is no longer on offer. Only access path is a 30-day free trial (no credit card), followed by flat-rate enterprise licensing. Reclassified to Trial tier.
DBOS Cloud free tier (1 Firecracker microVM per app, 1M service calls/mo) no longer appears on dbos.dev/pricing. Only the open-source DBOS Transact library remains free; managed cloud is paid-only starting at Pro $99/mo. Description updated accordingly; vendor remains in index under the open-source tier.
Free tier metric changed from 'checkpoints' to 'Test Units' (50/month) and user cap relaxed from 1 user to unlimited users. AI-powered visual regression detection unchanged.
DeepSeek V3.2 replaces V4 branding. Pricing dropped: chat model $0.30→$0.28/M input, $0.50→$0.42/M output. Reasoner model pricing unified with chat at $0.28/$0.42 (was $0.55/$2.19). Free token welcome package appears removed.
Netlify credits-based pricing updated: bandwidth now 20 credits/GB (was 10), compute now 10 credits/GB-hour (was 5), web requests 2 credits/10K (new). Same 300 credits/month allocation but each credit buys less bandwidth and compute.
n8n Cloud free plan removed entirely. All Cloud plans now require payment (14-day free trial available). Unlimited active workflows across all paid plans. Self-hosted remains free under Sustainable Use License.
Form submissions are now free across all Credit plans (including the Credit Free tier) — previously each form submission cost 1 credit. Credit Pro also gained unlimited team seats (was $20/seat per Git contributor), which effectively removes the prior CMS/Identity 'every committer becomes a $19 Pro seat' gotcha for free-tier users who ever upgrade.
Kiro pricing model clarified: uses credits (not interactions). Credits metered to 0.01 increments, model-dependent rates (Sonnet 4 costs 1.3x more than Auto). $0.04/credit overage (disabled by default). 500 bonus credits for new users (30 days). Enterprise tier with SAML/SCIM SSO. GovCloud ~20% premium, no free tier in GovCloud.
AWS Startups offers up to 1 year of free Kiro Pro+ (worth $480/year). Three tiers: Starter (up to 2 users), Growth (up to 50 users), Scale (up to 100 users). Eligible: early-stage to Series B companies.
Windsurf Max plan ($200/mo) confirmed as power-user tier alongside Teams ($40/mo/seat). SWE-1.5 Fast Agent model announced for faster iteration. Full tier lineup: Free (limited daily quotas), Pro ($20/mo), Teams ($40/mo), Max ($200/mo).
Low Impact (57)
Homepage returns HTTP 502. Removed from index.
Reclassified from Free to Trial tier. No permanent free plan exists — product offers a 30-day free trial only, after which paid licenses are required.
Kluster AI removed from index. Public pricing page shows a code review product ($30/month), not batch LLM inference. The $5 free credits for open-source model inference cannot be verified from any public page.
SendGrid Accelerate startup program discontinued. sendgrid.com now redirects to twilio.com. Twilio explicitly states they do not offer additional credits to startups at this time.
Prospect.io startup deal via JoinSecret removed. joinsecret.com returns 403 errors and Prospect.io's own pricing page 404s.
Free tier reduced from 1,000 to 100 daily requests. Full access now requires Coding Plan Pro ($50/month).
Rebranded to Zoho Billing, free tier discontinued — paid-only with 14-day trial
Free API tier removed, lowest plan now $39/month
Permanent free tier removed, only 7-day trial. Basic $15/month
Acquired by Datadog, shut down May 2023
No longer in force (2026-09-05). $25/month free API credits no longer offered — Grok API paid-only No longer in force as of 2026-09-05. This record cites nothing and xAI does not publish its sign-up credit terms on a page we can read, so it cannot be retracted on evidence; it is withdrawn because the claim it makes is contradicted by our own later record. Our xAI offer, verified 2026-08-14 and re-checked 2026-09-02, reads "Sign-up gives $25 in free API credits". Recorded separately: the URL that offer cites, docs.x.ai/developers/models, contains no occurrence of "free", "credit" or "$25" in its 5,452 characters of visible text, so that claim is also uncited and needs a source of its own.
Retracted — this record was our error (2026-09-05). Free tier replaced by 14-day trial for Reasoning Engine Retracted 2026-09-05: Clarifai's Community plan was not replaced by a trial. The Internet Archive's 2026-03-04 capture of clarifai.com/pricing, five weeks before this record, and its 2026-04-17 capture, four days after it, both carry the same Compare Plans ladder: "Community | Get Community | Essential | Get Essential | Professional | Get Professional | Hybrid AI Enterprise | Contact Us | Private AI Enterprise | Contact Us", with "Monthly requests: Limited" and "Requests per second: 1" in the Community column. Community is an orderable plan on both sides of this record's date. The 14-day trial named here is the hero banner above that table - "Benchmark your models on the world's fastest inference engine with a free 14-day trial" - which offers a trial of the Reasoning Engine, not a replacement for the plan ladder. Our own offer record, verified 2026-07-15, reads "Community tier: 1,000 API calls/month".
No free tier visible, paid from $28/month
Free tier removed, now 14-day Pro trial only
Free community plan replaced by trial only
30-day trial only, no permanent free plan
Free Community Edition removed, paid from $167/seat/month. 30-day trial available
Permanent free plan removed, now 14-28 day trial only
Free startup credits no longer visible, paid from ₹16,800/year
Free tier dropped to 50 requests/billing period
Free credits now one-time 500 (not recurring monthly)
Free storage reduced from 5 GB to 1 GB, now IPFS-focused
Now limited to 50 daily messages, 1 device, 1 application
Free plan now 1 user and 1 project only
Free tier restructured: Essentials 10K/month, Pro 5K/month, Enterprise 1K/month per SKU
Switched from 1M transactions/month to 200 MAU model
Participants increased 3→100 but 60-minute duration limit added
Email changed from 100/day to 10K/month
Free tier increased to 200K credits/month (was 2,500 views/month)
Rebranded to Respan, free tier preserved
Pivoted to EcoSend (ecosend.io), early-stage plan gone
Acquired by Salesloft, startup program discontinued
Now Synadia Cloud at synadia.com/cloud
Rebranded from NotificationAPI to Pingram
Rebranded to TestMu AI (testmuai.com), freemium plan preserved
No longer maintained by Adobe, succeeded by Phoenix Code
Free tier marked Deprecated, being phased out
Tile hosting transferred to Stadia Maps in 2023
Program renamed to UP, offers up to €10K credits
Renamed to AI Catalyst Program, focus shifted to AI
No free tier, pay-as-you-go only ($0.92/GB/day)
No free plan, log observability starts at $5/GB/month
No free tier, Basic plan starts at $29/month
No permanent free tier, 21-day trial only. Plans from $26/month
No free tier, plans start at $15/month. 2-week trial only
Retracted — this record was our error (2026-09-05). No permanent free tier, 45-day trial only Retracted 2026-09-05: Storyblok's Starter plan is free and was free when this row was written. The Internet Archive's 2026-04-11 capture of storyblok.com/pricing - two days before this record's date - lists "Starter ... Monthly price if billed monthly: Free", and the live page reads the same today. The 45-day free trial named here is a trial of the paid Growth Plus plan offered on top of the free Starter plan, not a replacement for it. This row was our error, not a change Storyblok made.
No permanent free tier, 30-day trial with 100 credits only
Being phased out in favor of Private Packagist. No free tier
No permanent free tier, pay-as-you-go at $0.30/min with $75 initial purchase
Rebranded to Command AI, no free tier visible, demo-only
No permanent free tier, 14-day trial only
No permanent free tier, paid from $140/month
No permanent free tier, 7-day trial only
Acquired by Workday, service future uncertain for external users
Retracted — this record was our error (2026-09-02). Cursor now offers 6 plans: Free, Hobby ($10/mo), Pro ($20/mo), Pro+ ($60/mo), Business ($40/seat), Ultra ($200/mo). Hobby tier added as lighter paid option between Free and Pro. Credit-based pricing model since June 2025. Retracted 2026-09-02: Cursor has never offered a $10/month Hobby tier - Hobby is the name of its free plan. This row was our error, not a change Cursor made.