6 events for developer tools during November 2–8, 2026: 4 pricing changes tracked and 2 deadlines our listings state. 1 more recorded with no known effective date. 4 changes announced this week take effect later.

Pricing Changes: November 2–8, 2026

6 events in week 45, 2026: 4 changes tracked and 2 deadlines our listings state. 1 more recorded with no known effective date.

4 changes announced this week take effect later.

6 events

4 changes

2 stated deadlines

1 deprecated

1 increased

1 model change

1 new

1 first read

Medium Impact (2)

model change Ably effective 2026-11-05 Messaging

On November 5, 2026, Ably moved to pricing on monthly active users (MAUs). The Free package now has a cap of 500 MAUs a month, which the free plan did not have before. It still allows 6M messages a month and 500 messages a second, and its concurrent connections rose from 200 to 500. Paid plans are now Pro and Business, from $29 and $349 a month for 1,000 MAUs billed annually. Accounts already on Ably's resource-based pricing keep their terms. Source ↗

new LogRocket effective 2026-11-05 Error Tracking

By November 5, 2026, LogRocket's pricing page listed a Free plan again. It offers 1,000 sessions a month free forever. LogRocket Galileo is not included. No Free plan was on the page in captures from August 19 to October 16, 2026. Source ↗

Low Impact (2)

increased Unkey effective 2026-11-05 API Gateway

On November 5, 2026, Unkey's pricing page raised the Free API plan's log retention from 1 day to 7 days and its audit log retention from 3 days to 30 days. Pro went from 7 and 14 days to 90 days of each. Unkey's commit is titled "Fix API Management log retention on the pricing page" and reads: "Free is 7 days of logs and 30 days of audit logs (was 1 / 3 days)." Keys, requests and the $0 price are unchanged. Source ↗

deprecated xAI effective 2026-11-02 AI / ML

xAI's API keeps running. xAI retired the grok-imagine-image-quality image model on 2026-11-02. Requests to grok-imagine-image-quality and grok-imagine-image-pro are now served by grok-imagine-image-2.0 at low quality, at a lower per-image price, and need no changes. Source ↗

Deadlines stated for November 2–8, 2026 (2)

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

stated deadline Google Gemini API 2026-11-02 AI / ML

Google deprecated gemini-2.5-pro and gemini-2.5-flash on 2026-11-02. Source ↗

stated deadline Appwrite Cloud 2026-11-05 Databases

From November 5, 2026, Appwrite Cloud deletes inactive function and site deployments more than 30 days old by default. Source ↗

Effective date unknown (1)

1 change recorded during November 2–8, 2026 has no known effective date. It is dated the day we recorded it, not the day its terms took effect, so it is not counted as a change that took effect during November 2–8, 2026. Where archived copies of the vendor's page bracket a change, it is dated by the first copy that shows the new terms.

restricted Screenshotlayer effective between 2026-08-20 and 2026-11-07 Dev Utilities

Screenshotlayer limited its Free Plan to non-commercial use between 2026-08-20 and 2026-11-07. Its limit stayed at 100 snapshots a month, and its paid plans are licensed for commercial use. Source ↗

Announced this week (4)

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 2026-11-02 · effective 2026-12-01 Google Gemini API: Google shuts down Gemini 2.5 Pro (gemini-2.5-pro) and Gemini 2.5 Flash (gemini-2.5-flash) on the Gemini API on December 1, 2026. Both can be used until that date. After the shutdown, requests that still name gemini-2.5-pro are answered by a different model, gemini-3.8-flash, billed at Gemini 3.8 Flash rates, and requests that still name gemini-2.5-flash are answered by gemini-3.5-flash-lite, billed at Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite rates. Google deprecated both on 2026-11-02 and lists breaking API changes in a migration guide for each replacement. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (gemini-2.5-flash-lite) is not deprecated. The Gemini API keeps running. Source ↗
announced 2026-11-02 · effective 2026-12-01 Cloudflare AI Search: Cloudflare AI Search usage is not charged until December 1, 2026, when usage-based billing begins. Every account receives 5 million ingestion tokens, 10 GB-month of storage, 1,000 semantic queries and 1,000 full-text queries each month. Usage beyond these amounts is billed at $0.75 per million ingestion tokens, $2.00 per GB-month of storage, $0.75 per 1,000 semantic queries and $0.10 per 1,000 full-text queries. Cloudflare first set the start for November 1, 2026 and moved it on November 2, 2026. Source ↗
announced 2026-11-05 · effective 2026-12-03 Google Gemini API: Google shuts down Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash (gemini-omni-1.1-flash) on the Gemini API on December 3, 2026. It can be used until that date. After the shutdown, requests that still name gemini-omni-1.1-flash are answered by a different model, gemini-omni-1.2-flash, billed at Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash rates. Google released Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash on 2026-11-05. The Gemini API keeps running. Source ↗
announced 2026-11-05 · effective 2027-02-01 OpenAI: The OpenAI API keeps running. The gpt-5.5-cyber-preview model can be called until February 1, 2027, when OpenAI removes it from the API. OpenAI tells users to move to the most capable cyber model available to them. Source ↗

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