16 events for developer tools during September 28–October 4, 2026: 13 pricing changes tracked and 3 deadlines our listings state. 5 more recorded with no known effective date. 3 changes announced this week take effect later.

Pricing Changes: September 28–October 4, 2026

16 events in week 40, 2026: 13 changes tracked and 3 deadlines our listings state. 5 more recorded with no known effective date.

3 changes announced this week take effect later.

16 events

13 changes

3 stated deadlines

5 deprecated

1 increased

3 restructured

4 reduced

5 first read

High Impact (4)

reduced Browser Use effective 2026-10-04 Browser Automation

By October 4, 2026, Browser Use cut its one-time sign-up credit from $15 to $1. Its pricing page read "$15 once per person" on September 21 and "$1 once per person" on October 4; its homepage still said "$15 free credits" on September 29. Source ↗

deprecated Prisma Accelerate effective 2026-10-02 Databases

Prisma stopped offering Accelerate for new setups in its Console by 2026-10-02, and Accelerate, including Prisma Postgres connections that go through it, is retired on 2026-12-01. Existing Accelerate connections keep working until then. Prisma Postgres keeps running, and its databases come with connection pooling. Source ↗

deprecated Solo effective 2026-10-01 Headless CMS

Solo can be used until November 30, 2026, when all Solo websites and data are deleted, with no way to recover a site, account or data afterwards. Solo announced on 2026-10-01 that it is shutting down. Solo sends each site's owner a ZIP with an HTML export of the site, a CSV of links to its images, and its contact form and newsletter submissions; image source files are not in the ZIP and must be downloaded one by one. Pro and Grow subscriptions get a prorated refund calculated as of October 1, 2026, and do not renew. Source ↗

deprecated Pipedream effective 2026-09-30 Workflow Automation

Pipedream stopped taking new signups and subscriptions for Workflows on 2026-09-30 and said Workflows and String will shut down on 2027-03-31. Existing workflows keep running until then. Pipedream Connect is not affected; its Free plan covers development only. Source ↗

Medium Impact (7)

increased Neon effective 2026-10-01 Databases

Neon raised the Free plan's Postgres storage from 0.5 GB to 1 GB per project and added a limit of 20 GB across all of an account's projects. Source ↗

restructured Fly.io effective 2026-10-01 Cloud Hosting

Fly.io raised the price of memory on Machines to $6.00 per GB a month, from about $5, and left CPU prices unchanged. Every preset includes memory, so every preset costs more: shared-cpu-2x with 512 MB went from $3.89 to $4.39 a month in Ashburn and Secaucus, and performance-1x with 2 GB from $31.00 to $33.00. The smallest, shared-cpu-1x with 256 MB, is now $2.19. Source ↗

restructured OVHcloud effective 2026-10-01 Cloud IaaS

From 2026-10-01, OVHcloud bills the local storage and public IPv4 address of its Gen3 Public Cloud instances (B3, C3 and R3) as separate lines: local storage at €0.0001458 per GB an hour (about €109 per TB a month) and an IPv4 address at €0.0027 an hour (about €1.97 a month). Instance hourly prices do not change, so total bills rise 1.4% to 21.9% depending on size, most for small instances. Block, Object and File Storage prices do not change. Source ↗

reduced Exa effective 2026-10-01 AI / ML

Between 2026-09-16 and 2026-10-01, Exa replaced the $20 sign-up credit with a one-time $10 bonus for completing onboarding, which only a user's first team earns. The $10 monthly credit, available in full on the day of sign-up, continues. Source ↗

reduced WhatsApp Business Platform effective 2026-10-01 Messaging

Meta resumed charging for WhatsApp service messages on 2026-10-01. Each business phone number gets 1,000 free service messages a month, and Meta charges from the 1,001st at the recipient market's service rate. Service messages had been free without a monthly limit since 2024-11-01. The same day, Meta began charging for utility templates sent inside an open customer service window, at the recipient market's utility rate; they had been free since 2025-07-01. Source ↗

reduced Modal effective 2026-10-01 AI / ML

Since October 1, 2026, Modal charges for network egress: the Starter plan includes 1 TiB a month, Team 10 TiB and Enterprise 100 TiB, and egress beyond that costs $0.04 per GiB. Source ↗

deprecated AWS effective 2026-09-30 Cloud IaaS

AWS App Mesh reached end of support on 2026-09-30. AWS: "After September 30, 2026, you will no longer be able to access the AWS App Mesh console or AWS App Mesh resources." AWS points App Mesh users to Amazon ECS Service Connect. Source ↗

Low Impact (2)

restructured Mockoon effective 2026-10-01 API Development

Mockoon replaced its hosted Mockoon Cloud plans with self-hosted Mockoon Pro, launched in beta on 2026-10-01. The Team plan is now €10 per license a month, billed €120 per license a year, for self-hosting; before, Team was $100 a month billed annually for 5 members, 3 cloud-deployed mocks and 100,000 calls a month. A managed cloud is offered to Enterprise customers only. The open-source desktop app, CLI and Docker image stay free. Source ↗

deprecated OpenAI effective 2026-09-28 AI / ML

gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct, babbage-002, davinci-002 and gpt-3.5-turbo-1106 shut down in the OpenAI API on September 28, 2026. OpenAI names gpt-5.6-terra as the replacement. Source ↗

Deadlines stated for September 28–October 4, 2026 (3)

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

stated deadline NVIDIA NIM 2026-09-28 AI / ML

Mistral: mistralai/mistral-large-3-675b-instruct-2512 on 2026-07-23, mistralai/mixtral-8x7b-instruct-v0.1 on 2026-07-27 and mistralai/mistral-nemotron on 2026-09-28. Source ↗

stated deadline Mistral AI 2026-09-30 AI / ML

Mistral retired these models in 2026, and a request to a retired model fails with a 404 error: Mistral Large 2.1 (mistral-large-2411), Pixtral Large (pixtral-large-2411) and Devstral Medium 1.0 (devstral-medium-2507) on 2026-05-31, replaced by Mistral Medium 3.5; Devstral Small 1.1 (devstral-small-2507) on 2026-05-31, replaced by Mistral Small 4; Voxtral Mini and Voxtral Mini Transcribe (voxtral-mini-2507) on 2026-05-31, replaced by Voxtral Mini Transcribe 2; OCR 2 (mistral-ocr-2505) on 2026-05-31 and OCR 4.0 (mistral-ocr-4-0) on 2026-09-30, replaced by OCR 4.1; Mistral Moderation (mistral-moderation-2411) on 2026-06-30, replaced by Mistral Moderation 2; Mistral Small 3.2 (mistral-small-2506) and Magistral Small 1.2 (magistral-small-2509) on 2026-07-31, replaced by Mistral Small 4; Mistral Nemo 12B (open-mistral-nemo-2407) on 2026-07-31, replaced by Ministral 3 8B; Devstral 2 (devstral-2512) and Magistral Medium 1.2 (magistral-medium-2509) on 2026-07-31, and Mistral Medium 3 and 3.1 (mistral-medium-2505, mistral-medium-2508) on 2026-08-31, replaced by Mistral Medium 3.5. Source ↗

stated deadline xAI 2026-10-02 AI / ML

grok-voice-transcribe-1.0 reached end of life on 2026-10-02; its requests are served by grok-voice-transcribe-2.0 at the same price. Source ↗

Effective date unknown (5)

5 changes recorded during September 28–October 4, 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 28–October 4, 2026. Where archived copies of the vendor's page bracket a change, it is dated by the first copy that shows the new terms.

restructured MATLAB and Simulink for Startups discovered 2026-10-04 · effective date unknown Startup Perks

The Startup Program now offers access to MATLAB and Simulink at 'low startup pricing' rather than a 'startup-friendly price' and lists specific annual license costs: USD 1,770 for MATLAB Suite (40+ add-ons) and USD 4,235 for MATLAB and Simulink Suite (90+ add-ons). The Accelerator Program provides free licensing through partnerships with over 500 accelerators. Source ↗

restructured Maxim AI discovered 2026-10-04 · effective date unknown AI / ML

The free tier is now the 'OSS' tier and is described as being for developers, small teams, and self-managed deployments. While still free, the description is more specific. A 14-day free trial of 'Bifrost Enterprise' is also offered. Source ↗

restructured SurrealDB Cloud discovered 2026-10-04 · effective date unknown Databases

The free tier now includes a compute instance with 0.25 vCPU and 1 GB memory, but also lists several paid tiers with varying compute and storage options. The free tier is now explicitly a 'Start' plan with hourly billing for additional resources beyond the free limits. Source ↗

restructured Phase Two discovered 2026-09-30 · effective date unknown Auth

Phase Two now sizes its Starter cluster ($149 a month after a 30-day free trial) for 5,000 active users, where its pricing page said "Up to 15K monthly active users" on the Internet Archive's capture of 2026-08-28. Users are unlimited on every tier; an active user is one who logs in 30 times and refreshes a token 1,000 times a month. Source ↗

increased TraceLog effective between 2026-08-28 and 2026-09-30 Analytics

The free plan now offers 10,000 sessions/month instead of 5,000. Source ↗

Announced this week (3)

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 2026-09-29 · effective 2026-12-07 AWS Infrastructure Composer: The standalone AWS Infrastructure Composer console shuts down on December 7, 2026. New customers have not been able to sign up since October 29, 2026. Existing customers can use the console until December 7, 2026. The visual editor remains in the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code. CloudFormation templates and stacks continue to work normally. Source ↗
announced 2026-09-29 · effective 2027-09-29 Functions on Azure Container Apps V1: Functions on Azure Container Apps V1 retires on September 29, 2027. After that date V1 function apps stop running and stop processing requests and triggers. Migrate to Functions on Azure Container Apps V2, a native Container App with kind=functionapp, using the same container image and no function code changes in the standard path. Azure Functions and Azure Container Apps keep running. Source ↗
announced 2026-09-29 · effective 2027-09-30 Amazon DevOps Guru: Amazon DevOps Guru shuts down on September 30, 2027. New customers have not been able to sign up since October 29, 2026. Existing customers can use it until September 30, 2027. After that date, the console and API become unavailable, past insights are no longer retrievable, and stacks declaring AWS::DevOpsGuru::ResourceCollection or AWS::DevOpsGuru::NotificationChannel fail to create or update. Running workloads are not interrupted. AWS recommends Amazon CloudWatch and Amazon DevOps Agent. Source ↗

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