Pricing Changes: April 20–26, 2026

Render replaced its workspace plans. Bandwidth for the Hobby tier went from 100 GB to 5 GB included per month, then $0.15 per GB, and Hobby workspaces are now capped at 25 services. New workspaces got the new plans on 2026-04-23 and existing workspaces moved on 2026-08-01. Free web services, Postgres and Key Value kept their specs, and free web services draw on the workspace's included bandwidth. Source ↗

ClawCloud Run shut down: its notice of April 23, 2026 suspended new sign-ups and purchases that day, and all services for free-tier customers ended on May 11, 2026. Source ↗

X API per-request pricing overhaul: Owned Reads now $0.001/request; writes raised to $0.015/post (from ~$0.01); URL-containing posts now $0.20/post (massive increase). Following, likes, and quote-posts via API removed from all self-serve tiers. Announced on X Developer Community. Source ↗

On 2026-04-20, Grafana Cloud restricted new Free and Trial accounts. Email alerts and reports can only go to users of their own Grafana instance; other recipients are rejected. Cloud Alertmanager is unavailable. Other alert integrations such as webhooks are unaffected. Accounts opened before April 20 are unaffected. Grafana stated this safeguarded the platform against unauthorized emails. Source ↗

On 2026-04-22 Stripe made Managed Payments, its optional merchant-of-record service for digital products, generally available to businesses in 39 countries. It adds 3.5% per successful transaction to Stripe's standard processing fees, which did not change. Source ↗

On April 22, 2026, Vertex AI Vector Search 2.0 was renamed Agent Retrieval. This was part of the Vertex AI to Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform naming changes. The documentation page is now titled "Agent Retrieval (formerly Vector Search 2.0)". Source ↗

Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client stopped accepting new customers on 2026-04-20. Existing Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client customers can keep using their devices, and can still order more, until AWS ends support on 2027-03-31. Source ↗