13 events for developer tools during May 11–17, 2026: 6 pricing changes tracked and 6 deadlines our listings state and 1 deadline stated in earlier change records.

Pricing Changes: May 11–17, 2026

13 events in week 20, 2026: 6 changes tracked and 6 deadlines our listings state and 1 deadline stated in earlier change records.

13 events

6 changes

7 stated deadlines

1 restricted

2 deprecated

1 removed

1 increased

1 restructured

High Impact (3)

removed fivenines.io effective 2026-05-15 Monitoring

fivenines.io removed its Free plan (5 monitors, 1 team member, 1 month of data retention) between the archived copies of its site from 2026-05-13 and 2026-05-15. Paid plans now start at €19 a month, with a 14-day free trial. Source ↗

deprecated OpenAI effective 2026-05-12 AI / ML

dall-e-2 and dall-e-3 were removed from the OpenAI API on 2026-05-12. OpenAI names gpt-image-2, gpt-image-1 or gpt-image-1-mini as substitutes, and gpt-image-1 itself shuts down on 2026-10-23. Source ↗

deprecated OpenAI effective 2026-05-12 AI / ML

The Realtime API beta was removed on 2026-05-12; OpenAI's generally available Realtime API replaces it. Source ↗

Medium Impact (3)

increased Uploadcare effective 2026-05-17 Storage

Uploadcare raised its Free plan's max file size from 10 MB to 500 MB and added adaptive bitrate streaming, between the Internet Archive's copies of 2026-04-12 and 2026-05-17. The plan kept 1,000 operations per month and personal use only. Source ↗

restricted DigitalOcean effective 2026-05-13 Startup Programs

As of 2026-05-13, DigitalOcean's startup credits exclude Dedicated and Serverless Inference, third-party AI models, Paperspace Machines, Cloudways and Bare Metal GPUs as well as GPU Droplets and H100 GPU products, the two exclusions its page stated before. The page also now puts the monthly credit limit at $10,000; its April capture mentioned a monthly limit without an amount. Source ↗

restructured Cloudflare for Startups effective 2026-05-12 Startup Perks

Cloudflare replaced its four startup tiers with three. In the Internet Archive's capture of 2026-05-11, cloudflare.com/forstartups offered $5K, $25K, $100K and $250K tiers. In the capture of 2026-05-12, cloudflare.com/startups offers Tier 3 at $10k (bootstrapped or self-funded, under $1M raised), Tier 2 at $100k ($1M+ raised, funded by an affiliated partner) and Tier 1 at $350k ($5M+ raised, funded by an affiliated partner), to startups founded within the last 10 years whose most recent round was within the last 12 months. Source ↗

Deadlines stated for May 11–17, 2026 (7)

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

stated deadline Claw.cloud 2026-05-11 Cloud Hosting

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 ↗

stated deadline NVIDIA NIM 2026-05-12 AI / ML

Kimi: moonshotai/kimi-k2-instruct and moonshotai/kimi-k2-thinking on 2026-05-12. Source ↗

stated deadline WhatsApp Business Platform 2026-05-13 Messaging

Meta lists Brazil ($0.0625 per service message), the EU and EEA (no charge since 2026-05-13) and Türkiye (permitted since 2026-10-15, no charge). Source ↗

stated deadline NVIDIA NIM 2026-05-14 AI / ML

GLM: z-ai/glm4.7 on 2026-05-14, z-ai/glm-5.1 on 2026-07-02, z-ai/glm-5.2 on 2026-08-21 and z-ai/glm-5.3 on 2026-10-27 (GLM 5.3 Flash, z-ai/glm-5.3-flash, is still a Free Endpoint). Source ↗

stated deadline Together AI 2026-05-14 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 ↗

stated deadline Amazon Q Developer 2026-05-15 AI Coding

New sign-ups and subscriptions were blocked from 2026-05-15. Source ↗

stated deadline xAI 2026-05-15 AI / ML

On 2026-05-15 xAI retired eight model names, which still resolve, so code that calls them keeps working: requests to Grok 4.1 Fast (grok-4-1-fast-reasoning, grok-4-1-fast-non-reasoning), Grok 4 Fast (grok-4-fast-reasoning, grok-4-fast-non-reasoning), grok-4-0709 and grok-3 are served by grok-4.3 (low reasoning effort for the reasoning names and grok-4-0709, none for the non-reasoning names and grok-3) and billed at grok-4.3 rates; grok-code-fast-1 is served by grok-build-0.1; grok-imagine-image-pro is served by grok-imagine-image-2.0 at low quality. Source ↗

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