7 events for developer tools during September 21–27, 2026: 5 pricing changes tracked and 2 deadlines our listings state. 6 more recorded with no known effective date. 1 change announced this week takes effect later.

Pricing Changes: September 21–27, 2026

7 events in week 39, 2026: 5 changes tracked and 2 deadlines our listings state. 6 more recorded with no known effective date.

1 change announced this week takes effect later.

7 events

5 changes

2 stated deadlines

2 deprecated

1 restructured

1 new

1 increased

6 first read

Medium Impact (3)

new Railway effective 2026-09-25 Cloud Hosting

Railway added a free VM accessible via `ssh railway.new` with no account or credit card needed. Each VM has 2 vCPU / 2 GB, preinstalled coding agents, and a preview URL. You have 60 minutes to build, then 24 hours to claim the VM into an account. Source ↗

deprecated OpenAI effective 2026-09-24 AI / ML

Sora 2 video generation in the OpenAI API shut down on September 24, 2026: OpenAI removed the Videos API and the sora-2 and sora-2-pro models, and names no replacement. Source ↗

deprecated Groq effective 2026-09-21 AI / ML

Groq keeps running. Groq decommissioned its Compound and Compound Mini systems, model IDs groq/compound and groq/compound-mini, on September 21, 2026, after announcing it on August 24; requests to those IDs return errors. Groq named no replacement. Source ↗

Low Impact (2)

restructured Storj effective 2026-09-25 Storage

On September 25, 2026, Storj stopped accepting STORJ token deposits for its service bills and switched to USDC. Accounts that deposit USDC are exempt from the $5 minimum monthly fee, as STORJ payers had been. The 10% discount on STORJ deposits ended the same day. Source ↗

increased Browserless effective 2026-09-24 Browser Automation

By September 24, 2026, Browserless's Free plan allowed a browser session of up to 2 minutes, up from 1 minute on August 24, 2026. The 1,000 units a month, 2 concurrent browsers, session reconnects and the $0 price were unchanged. Source ↗

Deadlines stated for September 21–27, 2026 (2)

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

stated deadline NVIDIA NIM 2026-09-21 AI / ML

DeepSeek: deepseek-ai/deepseek-v4-pro and deepseek-ai/deepseek-v4-flash on 2026-08-07, deepseek-ai/deepseek-v4-pro-0813 on 2026-09-14 and deepseek-ai/deepseek-v4-flash-0731 on 2026-09-21. Source ↗

stated deadline Fireworks AI 2026-09-25 AI / ML

Fireworks removed these models from serverless in 2026, so serverless requests for them fail (dedicated deployments are unaffected), according to its changelog (docs.fireworks.ai/updates/changelog): DeepSeek V4 Pro (0813) (accounts/fireworks/models/deepseek-v4-pro-0813) on 2026-09-25, replaced by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash $0.30/$1.20 (deepseek-v4p1-flash); DeepSeek V4 Flash (0731) (deepseek-v4-flash-0731) on 2026-09-25, replaced by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash; GLM 5.2 (glm-5p2) on 2026-09-25, replaced by GLM 5.3 (glm-5p3); Kimi K2.6 (kimi-k2p6) on 2026-09-25, replaced by GLM 5.3 or Kimi K3 (kimi-k3); Kimi K2.7 Code (kimi-k2p7-code) on 2026-09-25, replaced by GLM 5.3 or Kimi K3; Muse Glimmer 30B (muse-glimmer-30b) on 2026-09-25, replaced by NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B $0.05/$0.20 (nemotron-lightning-3p5-30b-a3b); GPT OSS 20B (gpt-oss-20b) on 2026-08-27, replaced by GPT OSS 120B or Qwen3 8B; MiniMax M2.7 (minimax-m2p7) on 2026-08-27, replaced by MiniMax M3; Kimi K2.5 (kimi-k2p5) on 2026-06-26; Qwen 3.6 Plus (qwen3p6-plus) on 2026-06-26, replaced by Qwen 3.7 Plus; MiniMax M2.5 (minimax-m2p5) on 2026-06-17. Source ↗

Effective date unknown (6)

6 changes recorded during September 21–27, 2026 have no known effective date. Each is dated the day we recorded it, not the day its terms took effect, so none is counted as a change that took effect during September 21–27, 2026. Where archived copies of the vendor's page bracket a change, it is dated by the first copy that shows the new terms.

reduced Svix discovered 2026-09-27 · effective date unknown Messaging

Svix cut its Free plan from 200 to 50 messages a second and from 30-day to 7-day payload retention, and moved the 99.9% uptime SLA to a new Basic plan from $20 a month. Free's 50,000 messages a month, beyond which messages were billed, now reads "Up to 50k messages per month". The pricing page changed between the Internet Archive's 2026-09-14 capture and our read on 2026-09-27. Source ↗

removed Stickies discovered 2026-09-26 · effective date unknown Team Collaboration

Stickies dropped its Free Forever plan between 2026-08-28 and 2026-09-26. It now sells Plus ($5 a month billed annually, $7 monthly) and Pro ($10 a month billed annually), with a 14-day free trial. Source ↗

reduced AppSignal effective between 2026-09-09 and 2026-09-26 Monitoring

The free plan now offers 30,000 requests/month instead of 50,000. Source ↗

reduced Nango discovered 2026-09-26 · effective date unknown API Development

The free plan now has a 10GB/mo data transfer limit. Previously 100k custom function logs, 100k custom sync storage records, and 100k API webhooks. Source ↗

reduced Pulumi discovered 2026-09-26 · effective date unknown Infrastructure

Pulumi dropped Pulumi Neo's 5M free tokens a month from its free plan, which it renamed from Individual to Free, between the Internet Archive's capture of its pricing page on 2026-09-13 and our reading of 2026-09-26. The free plan's other terms (1 user, unlimited projects and stacks, up to 500 workflow minutes) are unchanged; Neo now costs $3 per 1M tokens on paid plans only. Source ↗

increased Scalr effective between 2026-08-28 and 2026-09-21 Infrastructure

The free plan now includes 5 concurrent runs by default, and the quota can be increased for free on request. Previously 2 concurrent runs. Source ↗

Announced this week (1)

These changes were announced this week but take effect after this week. A change announced and taking effect in the same week is listed with the changes that took effect.

announced 2026-09-23 · effective 2028-09-30 Azure Communication Services: Azure Communication Services' standalone services retire on September 30, 2028. Retired services include Email, SMS, WhatsApp messaging, Chat, Rooms, number management, Job Router, Direct Routing and the UI Library SDKs. Customers without an ACS resource created before October 23, 2026 cannot acquire phone numbers for SMS or PSTN calling. Voice and video calling stay available after 2028 only with Microsoft Teams integrations, on new SDK major versions. Source ↗

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