11 events for developer tools during October 5–11, 2026: 6 pricing changes tracked and 5 deadlines our listings state. 2 more recorded with no known effective date. 2 changes announced this week take effect later.

Pricing Changes: October 5–11, 2026

11 events in week 41, 2026: 6 changes tracked and 5 deadlines our listings state. 2 more recorded with no known effective date.

2 changes announced this week take effect later.

11 events

6 changes

5 stated deadlines

2 deprecated

2 reduced

1 restructured

1 removed

2 first read

High Impact (2)

removed lensdump.com effective 2026-10-10 Design

Lensdump's Terms of Service, effective 10 October 2026, create every new account on a paid plan; the Free plan cannot be selected at sign-up and stays only with accounts that existed before paid plans were introduced. Source ↗

deprecated Deno Deploy effective 2026-10-09 Cloud Hosting

Deno Deploy keeps running for now. Deno announced on 2026-10-09 that it is joining Cloudflare and that Deno Deploy will keep running for six months and then shut down; Deno gave no exact date. Deno will help paying customers move to Cloudflare Workers. Source ↗

Medium Impact (2)

deprecated AWS effective 2026-10-07 DevOps

AWS Proton reaches end of support on 2026-10-07, when its console and resources stop being accessible. AWS: "Your deployed CloudFormation stacks and the resources they manage will remain intact and continue to function." New customers could not sign up after 2025-10-07. Source ↗

reduced Hugging Face effective 2026-10-07 AI / ML

Hugging Face stopped giving free accounts included monthly Inference Providers credits; free users now have to buy credits or upgrade to PRO to call Inference Providers. Source ↗

Low Impact (2)

restructured Together AI effective 2026-10-07 AI / ML

Together AI raised the minimum first credit purchase from $5 to $15; later purchases can still be $5. Its billing docs said $5 in the Internet Archive's capture of 2026-09-29 and have said $15 since the page was modified on 2026-10-07. Source ↗

reduced Groq effective 2026-10-06 AI / ML

Groq cut the free limits of gpt-oss-safeguard-20b from 30 to 3 requests a minute and from 8,000 to 2,000 tokens a minute; 1,000 requests and 200,000 tokens a day are unchanged. The Internet Archive's capture of console.groq.com/docs/rate-limits on 2026-09-28 lists 30 RPM and 8K TPM, and its capture of 2026-10-06 lists 3 RPM and 2K TPM. Groq announced no change. The other free chat models keep 30 requests and 8,000 tokens a minute. Source ↗

Deadlines stated for October 5–11, 2026 (5)

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

stated deadline Neon 2026-10-05 Databases

Neon's Azure East US 2, West US 3, and Germany West Central regions no longer accept new projects as of April 7, 2026; Free-plan projects there inactive for 90+ days may be deleted after October 5, 2026. Source ↗

stated deadline OpenAI 2026-10-06 AI / ML

OpenAI's API has three paid usage tiers, Build, Launch and Grow, which replaced five tiers on 2026-10-06. Source ↗

stated deadline Google Gemini API 2026-10-08 AI / ML

If your app calls gemini-3.7-flash, Google deprecated it on 2026-10-08. Source ↗

stated deadline Gemini CLI 2026-10-09 AI Coding

Google stopped selling new Gemini Code Assist Standard and Enterprise subscriptions on 2026-10-09, so a team cannot buy one now to use Gemini CLI. Source ↗ Gemini CLI stopped accepting Login with Google for personal accounts on 2026-06-18, which ended the personal-account free tier of 60 requests a minute and 1,000 a day. It still runs with a Gemini API key, Vertex AI, or a Gemini Code Assist Standard or Enterprise licence. Source ↗

stated deadline Google Gemini Code Assist 2026-10-09 IDE & Code Editors

Google stopped selling new Standard and Enterprise subscriptions on 2026-10-09. Source ↗

Effective date unknown (2)

2 changes recorded during October 5–11, 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 October 5–11, 2026.

reduced LLM7.io discovered 2026-10-07 · effective date unknown AI / ML

The free tier limits have been significantly reduced. The free tier now allows 60 requests per minute and 100,000 tokens per 24 hours, whereas previously it allowed 10 requests per minute and 500,000 tokens per 24 hours without a token. The free tier with a token now allows 60 requests per minute and 100,000 tokens per 24 hours, whereas previously it allowed 40 requests per minute and 1,000,000 tokens per 24 hours. Source ↗

restructured Mistral AI discovered 2026-10-07 · effective date unknown AI / ML

Mistral's pricing page stopped listing an API credit on the Free plan. It had listed $10 a month. Mistral's docs still say each plan includes monthly usage but give no amount. Source ↗

Announced this week (2)

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 2026-10-08 · effective 2027-02-22 Azure Deployment Environments: Azure Deployment Environments retires on February 22, 2027. Creating and deploying environments and other write operations are expected to be blocked on that date. Inventory, read, log and delete stay available for a limited cleanup period. Microsoft Dev Box retires later, in September 2028. Source ↗
announced 2026-10-08 · effective 2028-09-18 Microsoft Dev Box: Microsoft Dev Box retires on September 18, 2028. Its closing-down period began on September 14, 2026. It is in maintenance mode with no new features planned. Microsoft recommends Windows 365 as the replacement. Source ↗

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