Upcoming developer tool pricing changes for Q2 2026. Hetzner prices rose, Google Tenor shutdown, odrive removal, and more. Timeline, impact analysis, and alternatives.
Published 2026-03-25 · Not yet reviewed · 71 confirmed changes + 4 signals to watch · Figures compiled 2026-03-25, not re-checked since · Previews April–June 2026, which ended 2026-06-30
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Confirmed Changes
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High Impact
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Vendors Affected
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Signals to Watch
61 more were recorded in these dates with no known effective date and are not counted.
Q2 2026 brings infrastructure cost pressure. Hetzner raised cloud server prices 30-37% on April 1, 2026, and again on June 15 for new orders and rescales. Google shuts down the Tenor GIF API on June 30. Several Q1-end changes (odrive removal, HCP Terraform migration, Google Developer Program restructuring) take full effect as Q2 begins.
The broader trend: Cloud infrastructure costs are rising across Europe (OVHcloud, Netcup also raising prices). Meanwhile, AI API challengers (Groq, Cerebras, OpenRouter) are expanding free tiers to compete with incumbents. The gap between "cheap to prototype" and "expensive to scale" continues to widen.
Since this preview was published: Hetzner's price changes took effect on April 1, 2026, for new orders and existing products. Google shut down the Tenor API on June 30, 2026, and OpenAI shut down the Assistants API on August 26, 2026.
Timeline
Chronological view of confirmed pricing changes and deadlines in Q2 2026.
Aurora PostgreSQL Serverless added to AWS Free Tier — managed PostgreSQL-compatible database now available at no cost with up to 4 ACUs per cluster and 1 GB storage. Part of AWS... Source ↗
effective 2026-03-29
HeyFormlow
HeyForm ended its hosted free plan between 2026-03-01 and 2026-03-29, when its site relaunched. Paid plans start at $15 a month billed annually, with a 7-day trial; self-hosting... Source ↗
Standalone Google Developer Program Premium stopped renewing on personal (@gmail.com) accounts: annual plans after 2026-03-30, monthly plans after 2026-06-30. Google had begun f... Source ↗
HashiCorp's legacy free plan for HCP Terraform reached end of life on March 31, 2026. Legacy free plan users were auto-migrated to the enhanced free tier with different limits: ... Source ↗
Hetzner raised prices on 2026-04-01 for new orders and existing products: cloud servers by 30-37% (CX23 €2.99 to €3.99 a month in Germany and Finland), load balancers by 31-39%,... Source ↗
Google began enforcing billing-account-level spend caps on April 1, 2026. When a tier's spend cap is reached, API requests pause until the next billing month. Affects pay-as-you... Source ↗
Replit Core plan dropped from $25/month to $20/month (now includes 5 collaborators). New Pro plan added at $100/month with Agent modes, tiered credits, and up to 15 builders. Te... Source ↗
OVHcloud raised prices on its VPS 2026 range from 2026-04-01. Its announcement of 2026-03-05 lists euro list prices up 36-49%, with VPS-1 from €4.49 to €6.49 a month and VPS-4 f... Source ↗
OVHcloud Public Cloud, Private Cloud, and Bare Metal prices increased 9-11% for deployments made 2026-2028. Pre-2025 deployments see smaller 2-6% increase depending on equipment... Source ↗
OpenAI added Codex-only seats for ChatGPT Business and Enterprise workspaces, with no fixed seat fee, no rate limits and usage billed on token consumption, and cut ChatGPT Busin... Source ↗
Microsoft for Startups' homepage replaced its two credit offers with one. The Internet Archive's copy of microsoft.com/en-us/startups from 2026-03-29 offers up to $150,000 in Az... Source ↗
DigitalOcean's new-account credit fell from $200 for 60 days to $5 for 90 days. Its pricing page changed between the Internet Archive's 2026-04-05 and 2026-04-07 captures. The $... Source ↗
Kiro reopened its startup credits with smaller tiers and a lower funding ceiling. Its post of 2026-04-07 offers up to one year of Kiro Pro+ to "early-stage to Series A" startups... Source ↗
On 2026-04-07, Grafana Cloud introduced a hard limit of 1,000 dashboards and 1,000 folders per free tier stack. Stacks already above these limits kept their resources. Paid stac... Source ↗
Between 2026-03-08 and 2026-04-08, Hyperping's free plan went from 5 monitors checked every 3 minutes to 20 monitors checked every 5 minutes, with 1 basic status page and 1 seat... Source ↗
ImageEngine withdrew its free Developer Program (10 GB of monthly traffic, one image origin) between captures of 2026-02-17 and 2026-04-09, when it replaced its SaaS plans with ... Source ↗
Free tier removed. The lowest plan was then Indie at $20/month with 40K credits. As of 2026-10-16, Augment Code's plans are Standard at $20 a month flat and Business at $100 a m... Source ↗
discovered 2026-04-12 · effective date unknown
stathat.commedium
Domain no longer resolves (DNS ENOTFOUND). We hold no source for this record, so it does not set stathat.com's rating.
Free tier increased from 1,000 to 30,000 sessions/month, retention 1→12 months We hold no source for this record, so it does not set FullStory's rating.
Free tier increased from 1,500 to 3,000 sessions/month. Note: reaching End of Sale May 2026 We hold no source for this record, so it does not set Smartlook's rating.
Egress on the Free plan fell from 100 GB to 20 GB a month. Deno Deploy's pricing page changed between Common Crawl captures of 2026-03-15 and 2026-04-12. Source ↗
discovered 2026-04-13 · effective date unknown
Codigalow
Acquired by Datadog, shut down May 2023 We hold no source for this record, so it does not set Codiga's rating.
Free Community Edition removed, paid from $167/seat/month. 30-day trial available We hold no source for this record, so it does not set Katalon's rating.
Netlify changed its credit rates: bandwidth went from 10 to 20 credits per GB and compute from 5 to 10 credits per GB-hour, while web requests went from 3 to 2 credits per 10,00... Source ↗
Form submissions are now free across all Credit plans (including the Credit Free tier) — previously each form submission cost 1 credit. Credit Pro also gained unlimited team sea... Source ↗
Cognition retired Devin's Core and Team plans and introduced Free, Pro, Max, Teams and Enterprise; Core users moved to the Free plan. Usage past a paid plan's allowance is bille... Source ↗
Qwen Code's free Qwen OAuth tier was discontinued on 2026-04-15, and new requests on it are rejected. Qwen's docs point users to Alibaba Cloud Coding Plan, OpenRouter, Fireworks... Source ↗
Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client stopped accepting new customers on 2026-04-20. Existing Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client customers can keep using their devices, and can still order m... Source ↗
X API per-request pricing overhaul: Owned Reads now $0.001/request; writes raised to $0.015/post (from ~$0.01); URL-containing posts now $0.20/post (massive increase). Following... Source ↗
On 2026-04-20, Grafana Cloud restricted new Free and Trial accounts. Email alerts and reports can only go to users of their own Grafana instance; other recipients are rejected. ... Source ↗
On 2026-04-22 Stripe made Managed Payments, its optional merchant-of-record service for digital products, generally available to businesses in 39 countries. It adds 3.5% per suc... Source ↗
On April 22, 2026, Vertex AI Vector Search 2.0 was renamed Agent Retrieval. This was part of the Vertex AI to Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform naming changes. The documentation ... Source ↗
Render replaced its workspace plans. Bandwidth for the Hobby tier went from 100 GB to 5 GB included per month, then $0.15 per GB, and Hobby workspaces are now capped at 25 servi... Source ↗
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 ↗
Amplitude cut its free Starter plan from up to 10M to up to 2M events a month between the Internet Archive's copies of its pricing page from 2026-04-12 and 2026-04-27. The 10K M... Source ↗
AWS App Runner closed to new customers. Service enters maintenance mode with no new features. AWS recommends migrating to Amazon ECS Express Mode for simplified container deploy... Source ↗
The Node.js 20 Lambda runtime (nodejs20.x) was deprecated on 2026-04-30. Lambda blocks creating nodejs20.x functions from 2027-07-29 and updating them from 2027-08-31; AWS's run... Source ↗
Appwrite began enforcing Realtime limits on 2026-04-30, with the Free plan at 2 million messages a month, down from the 3 million its pricing page had listed, and a new 256 KB m... Source ↗
On May 1, 2026 Backblaze raised B2 pay-as-you-go storage from $6 to $6.95 per TB a month and made Class B and Class C API calls free; they had been free for the first 2,500 a da... Source ↗
Between the Internet Archive's captures of nx.dev/nx-cloud of 2026-04-23 and 2026-05-04, Nx Cloud's free Hobby plan began listing "5 complimentary contributors"; on 2026-04-23 t... Source ↗
The Free Edition now scans up to 10 private repositories and includes 60 AI credits; the Internet Archive's copy of 2025-12-23 listed unlimited private repositories. It still al... Source ↗
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... Source ↗
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 t... Source ↗
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... Source ↗
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 ... Source ↗
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. Th... Source ↗
Google added a Google AI Ultra plan at $99.99 a month with $40 a month in Google Cloud credits, and cut the top AI Ultra plan from $249.99 to $199.99 a month; the top plan keeps... Source ↗
Terragrunt Scale's pricing page added a Free Forever plan at $0, with up to 25 infrastructure units, between the Internet Archive's copies of 2026-03-18 and 2026-05-21. The copy... Source ↗
The Free plan now allows 1,000 requests a day; the Internet Archive's copy of 2026-03-11 capped it at 10 queries per second with no daily limit. Source ↗
Between 2026-05-15 and 2026-05-23, Cerebras renamed its Free tier Free Trial and cut it from 30 to 5 requests a minute and from 60K-64K to 30K tokens a minute on gpt-oss-120b, L... Source ↗
Cloudflare's startup programme stopped covering AI Gateway. The Internet Archive's capture of cloudflare.com/startups on 2026-05-25 lists "$250 on AI Gateway"; the capture of 20... Source ↗
Google Maps Platform client ID authentication reached its announced end date on May 31, 2026 and is being phased out: Google periodically blocks client ID requests ahead of a fi... Source ↗
Gemini 2.0 Flash and 2.0 Flash-Lite were shut down on 2026-06-01, as Google announced on 2026-02-18. Google names gemini-3.6-flash as the replacement for 2.0 Flash and gemini-3.... Source ↗
GitHub retired premium requests and now bills every Copilot plan in GitHub AI Credits. Copilot Free kept 2,000 code completions a month, and its 50 chat and agent requests a mon... Source ↗
Foursquare cut the free Places API allowance on Pro endpoints from 10,000 to 500 calls a month, effective 2026-06-01. Its docs: "Beginning June 1, 2026, the following Places API... Source ↗
On 2026-05-21 X announced the end of its paid legacy Basic plans (monthly and annual). Each Basic subscription ended at the end of the subscriber's billing cycle after June 1, 2... Source ↗
Directus replaced its plans with a $0 Core plan (3 user seats, 25 collections, 5 flows), Team at $499 a month and Enterprise. Its Open Innovation Grant gives organizations under... Source ↗
Kiro stopped giving new users 500 bonus credits on sign-up, usable within 30 days, and now credits $20 toward the first paid plan instead. The change falls between the 2026-05-0... Source ↗
The free plan dropped its cap of 500 monthly active rooms and raised realtime data storage from 256 MB to 1 GB, and added two metered limits: 3,000 realtime collaboration minute... Source ↗
Permit.io's pricing page added a limit of 2,000 relationship tuples to its free Community plan. The row first appears between the Internet Archive's captures of 2026-05-23 and 2... Source ↗
UptimeRobot's terms stopped limiting the Free plan to personal, non-commercial use between 2026-06-08 and 2026-06-11. The terms now allow commercial and business use. Source ↗
Oracle halved the Always Free Ampere A1 allowance. Oracle's Always Free documentation changed between 2026-06-05 and 2026-06-12, and Oracle announced the new allocation on 2026-... Source ↗
AWS raised Activate Portfolio from up to $100,000 to up to $200,000 in credits. aws.amazon.com/startups/credits/ said "Up to $100,000 USD AWS Activate Credits" in the Internet A... Source ↗
From 2026-06-15, for new orders and rescales, Hetzner's EU cloud prices excluding IPv4 rose 30-38% on Cost-Optimized CX/CAX, 144-175% on Regular Performance CPX (shared resource... Source ↗
Weaviate Cloud replaced its 14-day sandbox trial with an always-free cluster (100,000 objects, 1 GB memory, 10 GB disk, 1 collection), announced on 2026-06-17: "The Weaviate Clo... Source ↗
Retool's Free plan replaced its AI prompting credits, up to 100 a month for each user, with 250 AI credits a month shared by the whole organization, between the Internet Archive... Source ↗
Google stopped serving Gemini Code Assist for individuals, its free tier, on 2026-06-18. The IDE extensions and Gemini CLI no longer accept Login with Google for the individuals... 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 ... Source ↗
GitHub moved Copilot Student, the Copilot plan in the Student Pack, to auto model selection only, so students can no longer choose which model answers. Source ↗
ChatGPT Business and Codex keep running. From 2026-06-24, new self-serve ChatGPT Business workspaces cannot add Codex-only seats, which OpenAI now calls a legacy seat type. A wo... Source ↗
Burner Mail removed its public Free plan on 2026-06-27. New users must upgrade to a paid plan before creating burner addresses or mailboxes. Existing free users keep their curre... Source ↗
Appwrite began deleting Free projects that stay paused for 90 days, with all their resources. Owners get email alerts before anything is deleted. Source ↗
effective 2026-06-30
Google Tenor APIhigh
Google Tenor API shut down on June 30, 2026, and new API key sign-ups stopped on January 13, 2026. Only the API ended: Tenor.com, the GIF Keyboard apps and Gboard still serve Te... Source ↗
Fargate platform version 1.3.0 reached end of support on June 30, 2026. AWS blocked new tasks and services on it from June 15 and said it would terminate the tasks still running... Source ↗
Turbopuffer cut the Launch plan's monthly minimum from $64 to $16. Its changelog dates the cut to June 2026, and the Internet Archive's copy of 2026-06-18 still shows $64. Scale... Source ↗
Impact Analysis
Detailed breakdown of each confirmed change — who's affected, what to do, and alternatives.
Aurora PostgreSQL Serverless added to AWS Free Tier — managed PostgreSQL-compatible database now available at no cost with up to 4 ACUs per cluster and 1 GB storage. Part of AWS Free Plan (6 months + credits) Source ↗
Before: No free tier — Aurora was paid-only, starting at ~$0.08/ACU-hour
After: Free plan with up to 4 ACUs per cluster, 1 GB storage, $100–200 in credits for new accounts
HeyFormeffective 2026-03-29low
Free Tier Removed
HeyForm ended its hosted free plan between 2026-03-01 and 2026-03-29, when its site relaunched. Paid plans start at $15 a month billed annually, with a 7-day trial; self-hosting the open-source version stays free. Source ↗
Before: "HeyForm provides a real free plan without time limit." (pricing page, 2026-02-06)
After: "Start 7-day free trial"; "Self-host for free" (heyform.net, 2026-03-29)
Standalone Google Developer Program Premium stopped renewing on personal (@gmail.com) accounts: annual plans after 2026-03-30, monthly plans after 2026-06-30. Google had begun folding its benefits, including Cloud credits, into Google AI Pro and AI Ultra on 2026-01-27. Premium on Workspace accounts did not change. Source ↗
Before: Developer Program Premium: $299 a year (a monthly option also existed) with a $500 annual Google Cloud credit, Skills Boost access and a certification voucher
After: Google AI Pro "$19.99 / month" with $10 a month in Cloud credits; Google AI Ultra "$249.99 / month" with $100 a month. 1:1 consultations, certification vouchers and unlimited Google Skills access are no longer included. Workspace Premium subscriptions are not changing.
HashiCorp's legacy free plan for HCP Terraform reached end of life on March 31, 2026. Legacy free plan users were auto-migrated to the enhanced free tier with different limits: 500 managed resources (previously unlimited for small teams), unlimited users, 1 concurrent run, SSO, and policy as code (Sentinel + OPA) Source ↗
Before: Legacy free plan with basic Terraform Cloud features
After: Enhanced free tier: 500 managed resources, unlimited users, 1 concurrent run, SSO, policy as code (Sentinel + OPA). Auto-migration from legacy plan
Before: Free plan: 3,000 sessions/month, three heatmaps, one funnel. Note: reaching End of Sale May 2026.
After: After 31 August 2027, the Smartlook platform will be available in free mode, providing access to some historical data before the account is fully deactivated on 30 September 2027. You may continue using Smartlook until your paid plan ends (after which you may use the free plan until 30 September 2027).The page we cite for smartlook.com states in words that it is free, which confirms the price — the limits stated here come from our read of the vendor's page on 2026-08-28.
Hetzner raised prices on 2026-04-01 for new orders and existing products: cloud servers by 30-37% (CX23 €2.99 to €3.99 a month in Germany and Finland), load balancers by 31-39%, Object Storage's base price by 30%, dedicated servers by 2-21% and Server Auction servers by 3%. Superseded 2026-06-15: Hetzner ran a second adjustment across all cloud and dedicated lines, applying to new orders and rescales only. Read from hetzner.com on 2026-09-03: CX23 is €5.99 and is marked "not available", as is every other Cost-Optimized plan, and the cheapest orderable plan is CPX12 at €11.99/mo. Source ↗
Before: Lower cloud server pricing across Germany, Finland, US, and Singapore data centers (e.g., CX23 at €2.99/mo)
After: Hetzner's table for 1 April 2026, in euros excluding VAT: cloud servers +30% to +37% (CX23 €2.99 to €3.99 a month and CAX11 €3.29 to €4.49 in Germany and Finland), load balancers +31% to +39%, Object Storage base price +30%, dedicated servers +2% to +21% (AX42 €44.30 to €52.30 in Finland) and Server Auction servers +3%, "for both new orders and existing products" (docs.hetzner.com, archived 2026-05-13)
Google began enforcing billing-account-level spend caps on April 1, 2026. When a tier's spend cap is reached, API requests pause until the next billing month. Affects pay-as-you-go developers who may see unexpected request pausing. Source ↗
Before: No hard spend caps — usage billed without automatic pausing
After: Tier-level spend caps enforced at billing account level. Requests pause when cap is hit until next month
Replit Core plan dropped from $25/month to $20/month (now includes 5 collaborators). New Pro plan added at $100/month with Agent modes, tiered credits, and up to 15 builders. Teams plan sunset (auto-migrated to Pro). Free tier unchanged (limited AI credits, basic compute) Source ↗
Before: Free tier + Core plan at $25/month + Teams plan
After: Free tier + Core plan at $20/month (5 collaborators) + Pro plan at $100/month (15 builders). Teams plan sunset
OVHcloud raised prices on its VPS 2026 range from 2026-04-01. Its announcement of 2026-03-05 lists euro list prices up 36-49%, with VPS-1 from €4.49 to €6.49 a month and VPS-4 from €24.99 to €36.99; existing services moved at the end of their current term. New orders had moved already: the US page's 12-month price for VPS-1 went from $4.20 to $6.46 between captures of 2026-02-23 and 2026-03-04. Source ↗
Before: VPS 2026 list prices: VPS-1 €4.49/month, VPS-2 €6.99, VPS-3 €13.99, VPS-4 €24.99 (US, 12 months: VPS-1 from $4.20, VPS-4 from $22.08)
After: VPS-1 €6.49/month, VPS-2 €9.99, VPS-3 €19.99, VPS-4 €36.99 (US, 12 months: VPS-1 from $6.46, VPS-4 from $36.98; no commitment: VPS-1 $7.60, VPS-4 $43.50)
OVHcloud Public Cloud, Private Cloud, and Bare Metal prices increased 9-11% for deployments made 2026-2028. Pre-2025 deployments see smaller 2-6% increase depending on equipment age. IPv4 pricing also increased. Driven by same DRAM/NVMe cost surge as VPS increases. Source ↗
Before: Standard pricing on Public Cloud instances, Private Cloud, and Bare Metal servers
After: 9-11% increase on new deployments (2026-2028), 2-6% on pre-2025 deployments. IPv4 pricing increased
OpenAI added Codex-only seats for ChatGPT Business and Enterprise workspaces, with no fixed seat fee, no rate limits and usage billed on token consumption, and cut ChatGPT Business's annual price from $25 to $20 per seat. Standard Business seats, which include Codex with usage limits, continued. Source ↗
Before: ChatGPT Business at $25 per seat billed annually; Codex available through ChatGPT seats with usage limits
After: "teams on ChatGPT Business and Enterprise can add Codex-only seats to their workspaces with pay-as-you-go pricing, giving full access to Codex without a fixed seat fee"; "we're lowering the annual price of ChatGPT Business from $25 to $20 per seat"
Microsoft for Startups' homepage replaced its two credit offers with one. The Internet Archive's copy of microsoft.com/en-us/startups from 2026-03-29 offers up to $150,000 in Azure credits to startups associated with Microsoft's Investor Network and up to $5,000 through an Azure free trial to the rest; its copy of 2026-04-04 offers up to $150,000 in credits with no split. Source ↗
Before: Up to $150,000 in Azure credits for startups associated with the Microsoft for Startups Investor Network, pre-seed to Series A. Up to $5,000 in Azure credits with an Azure startup free trial for startups not associated with it, no investor funding required.
After: Access cutting-edge AI models, developer tools, and up to $150,000 in credits
DigitalOcean's new-account credit fell from $200 for 60 days to $5 for 90 days. Its pricing page changed between the Internet Archive's 2026-04-05 and 2026-04-07 captures. The $200 offer page (try.digitalocean.com/freetrialoffer/) was still up on 2026-05-15 and now redirects to the homepage. Source ↗
Before: $200 credit for 60 days for new accounts
After: $5 signup credit, applied automatically and expiring 90 days after signup
Kiro reopened its startup credits with smaller tiers and a lower funding ceiling. Its post of 2026-04-07 offers up to one year of Kiro Pro+ to "early-stage to Series A" startups in tiers of up to 2, 10 and 30 users, and says "Startups who currently participate in AWS Activate are not eligible". The 2025 offer covered startups up to Series B in tiers of up to 2, 50 and 100 users; Kiro had closed its applications in December 2025 "due to high demand". Source ↗
Before: Up to one year of Kiro Pro+ for startups up to Series B; Starter up to 2 users, Growth up to 50, Scale up to 100
After: Up to one year of Kiro Pro+ for early-stage to Series A startups; Starter up to 2 users, Growth up to 10, Scale up to 30; startups in AWS Activate not eligible
On 2026-04-07, Grafana Cloud introduced a hard limit of 1,000 dashboards and 1,000 folders per free tier stack. Stacks already above these limits kept their resources. Paid stacks received a soft limit that support could raise. Source ↗
Before: No limit on the number of dashboards and folders in a stack: Grafana's post of 2026-04-07 says "we are introducing limits to the number of dashboards and folders that can be created in each Grafana stack."
After: "A hard limit of 1,000 dashboards and 1,000 folders for all free tier stacks. If existing stacks already exceed those limits, resources in excess will be preserved." (grafana.com/whats-new/2026-04-07-introducing-limits-to-dashboards-and-folders-resources, release date 2026-04-07, read 2026-11-02)
Between 2026-03-08 and 2026-04-08, Hyperping's free plan went from 5 monitors checked every 3 minutes to 20 monitors checked every 5 minutes, with 1 basic status page and 1 seat. Paid plans did not change. Source ↗
Before: "Free Forever ... 5 monitors 3 min check interval 1 status page"
After: "$0/forever Includes: 1 seat included 20 monitors 5 min check interval 1 basic status page HTTP, port, ping & keyword monitoring". A free server monitoring agent was added later, between 2026-04-18 and 2026-05-10.
ImageEngine withdrew its free Developer Program (10 GB of monthly traffic, one image origin) between captures of 2026-02-17 and 2026-04-09, when it replaced its SaaS plans with self-hosted ImageEngine Kube. The programme's page now redirects to a 30-day free trial with no credit card required. Source ↗
Before: Free developer account available via imageengine.io/developer-program
After: 30-day free trial only; flat-rate enterprise licensing after trial
Augment Codediscovered 2026-04-12 · effective date unknownmedium
Free Tier Removed
Free tier removed. The lowest plan was then Indie at $20/month with 40K credits. As of 2026-10-16, Augment Code's plans are Standard at $20 a month flat and Business at $100 a month flat, each for up to 50 seats with no per-seat charge; teams of more than 50 need Enterprise, which is custom-priced Source ↗
Before: Free tier: individual developers with limited usage
After: Indie plan $20/month (40K credits), Standard $60/dev/month (130K credits)
stathat.comdiscovered 2026-04-12 · effective date unknownmedium
Product Deprecated
Domain no longer resolves (DNS ENOTFOUND). We hold no source for this record, so it does not set stathat.com's rating.
Acquired by Fivetran, now Fivetran Activations We hold no source for this record, so it does not set Fivetran Activations's rating.
Before:
After: Acquired by Fivetran, now Fivetran Activations
UsabilityHubdiscovered 2026-04-12 · effective date unknownlow
rebranded
Rebranded to Lyssna We hold no source for this record, so it does not set UsabilityHub's rating.
Before:
After: Rebranded to Lyssna
FullStorydiscovered 2026-04-12 · effective date unknownlow
Limits Increased
Free tier increased from 1,000 to 30,000 sessions/month, retention 1→12 months We hold no source for this record, so it does not set FullStory's rating.
Before:
After: Free tier increased from 1,000 to 30,000 sessions/month, retention 1→12 months
Smartlookdiscovered 2026-04-12 · effective date unknownlow
Limits Increased
Free tier increased from 1,500 to 3,000 sessions/month. Note: reaching End of Sale May 2026 We hold no source for this record, so it does not set Smartlook's rating.
Before:
After: Free tier increased from 1,500 to 3,000 sessions/month. Note: reaching End of Sale May 2026
UXtweakdiscovered 2026-04-12 · effective date unknownlow
Limits Reduced
Free plan no longer includes session recordings (requires paid Business plan) We hold no source for this record, so it does not set UXtweak's rating.
Before:
After: Free plan no longer includes session recordings (requires paid Business plan)
Egress on the Free plan fell from 100 GB to 20 GB a month. Deno Deploy's pricing page changed between Common Crawl captures of 2026-03-15 and 2026-04-12. Source ↗
Before: Free: 100 GB of egress a month
After: Free: 20 GB of egress a month, shown as 20 GiB since August 2026
Codigadiscovered 2026-04-13 · effective date unknownlow
Product Deprecated
Acquired by Datadog, shut down May 2023 We hold no source for this record, so it does not set Codiga's rating.
Before:
After: Acquired by Datadog, shut down May 2023
SwaggerHubdiscovered 2026-04-13 · effective date unknownlow
Free Tier Removed
Free community plan replaced by trial only Source ↗
Before:
After: Free community plan replaced by trial only
Katalondiscovered 2026-04-13 · effective date unknownlow
Free Tier Removed
Free Community Edition removed, paid from $167/seat/month. 30-day trial available We hold no source for this record, so it does not set Katalon's rating.
Before:
After: Free Community Edition removed, paid from $167/seat/month. 30-day trial available
Knowlaritydiscovered 2026-04-13 · effective date unknownlow
Free Tier Removed
Free startup credits no longer visible, paid from ₹16,800/year We hold no source for this record, so it does not set Knowlarity's rating.
Before:
After: Free startup credits no longer visible, paid from ₹16,800/year
filebase.comdiscovered 2026-04-13 · effective date unknownlow
Limits Reduced
Free storage reduced from 5 GB to 1 GB, now IPFS-focused We hold no source for this record, so it does not set filebase.com's rating.
Before:
After: Free storage reduced from 5 GB to 1 GB, now IPFS-focused
Pocket Alertdiscovered 2026-04-13 · effective date unknownlow
Limits Reduced
Now limited to 50 daily messages, 1 device, 1 application We hold no source for this record, so it does not set Pocket Alert's rating.
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After: Now limited to 50 daily messages, 1 device, 1 application
PubNubdiscovered 2026-04-13 · effective date unknownlow
Pricing Restructured
Switched from 1M transactions/month to 200 MAU model We hold no source for this record, so it does not set PubNub's rating.
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After: Switched from 1M transactions/month to 200 MAU model
Zoho Meetingdiscovered 2026-04-13 · effective date unknownlow
Pricing Restructured
Participants increased 3→100 but 60-minute duration limit added We hold no source for this record, so it does not set Zoho Meeting's rating.
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After: Participants increased 3→100 but 60-minute duration limit added
Stadia Mapsdiscovered 2026-04-13 · effective date unknownlow
Limits Increased
Free tier increased to 200K credits/month (was 2,500 views/month) We hold no source for this record, so it does not set Stadia Maps's rating.
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After: Free tier increased to 200K credits/month (was 2,500 views/month)
Keywords AIdiscovered 2026-04-13 · effective date unknownlow
rebranded
Rebranded to Respan, free tier preserved We hold no source for this record, so it does not set Keywords AI's rating.
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Revoltdiscovered 2026-04-13 · effective date unknownlow
rebranded
revolt.chat → stoat.chat We hold no source for this record, so it does not set Revolt's rating.
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After: revolt.chat → stoat.chat
GoSquareddiscovered 2026-04-13 · effective date unknownlow
rebranded
Pivoted to EcoSend (ecosend.io), early-stage plan gone We hold no source for this record, so it does not set GoSquared's rating.
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After: Pivoted to EcoSend (ecosend.io), early-stage plan gone
Driftdiscovered 2026-04-13 · effective date unknownlow
Product Deprecated
Acquired by Salesloft, startup program discontinued We hold no source for this record, so it does not set Drift's rating.
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After: Acquired by Salesloft, startup program discontinued
synadia.comdiscovered 2026-04-13 · effective date unknownlow
rebranded
Now Synadia Cloud at synadia.com/cloud We hold no source for this record, so it does not set synadia.com's rating.
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After: Now Synadia Cloud at synadia.com/cloud
Pingram.iodiscovered 2026-04-13 · effective date unknownlow
rebranded
Rebranded from NotificationAPI to Pingram We hold no source for this record, so it does not set Pingram.io's rating.
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After: Rebranded from NotificationAPI to Pingram
DhiWisediscovered 2026-04-13 · effective date unknownlow
rebranded
Rebranded to Rocket.new We hold no source for this record, so it does not set DhiWise's rating.
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After: Rebranded to Rocket.new
Stamen Mapsdiscovered 2026-04-13 · effective date unknownlow
rebranded
Tile hosting transferred to Stadia Maps in 2023 We hold no source for this record, so it does not set Stamen Maps's rating.
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After: Tile hosting transferred to Stadia Maps in 2023
Alibaba Cloud Startupsdiscovered 2026-04-13 · effective date unknownlow
rebranded
Renamed to AI Catalyst Program, focus shifted to AI We hold no source for this record, so it does not set Alibaba Cloud Startups's rating.
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After: Renamed to AI Catalyst Program, focus shifted to AI
Shotstackdiscovered 2026-04-13 · effective date unknownlow
Free Tier Removed
No permanent free tier, pay-as-you-go at $0.30/min with $75 initial purchase We hold no source for this record, so it does not set Shotstack's rating.
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After: No permanent free tier, pay-as-you-go at $0.30/min with $75 initial purchase
CommandBardiscovered 2026-04-13 · effective date unknownlow
rebranded
Rebranded to Command AI, no free tier visible, demo-only We hold no source for this record, so it does not set CommandBar's rating.
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After: Rebranded to Command AI, no free tier visible, demo-only
Netlify changed its credit rates: bandwidth went from 10 to 20 credits per GB and compute from 5 to 10 credits per GB-hour, while web requests went from 3 to 2 credits per 10,000. The Free plan keeps 300 credits a month, so each credit buys half as much bandwidth and compute. Source ↗
Before: 300 credits a month: bandwidth 10 credits per GB, compute 5 credits per GB-hour, web requests 3 credits per 10,000 requests
After: 300 credits a month: bandwidth 20 credits per GB, compute 10 credits per GB-hour, web requests 2 credits per 10,000 requests (Netlify changelog, 2026-04-14)
Form submissions are now free across all Credit plans (including the Credit Free tier) — previously each form submission cost 1 credit. Credit Pro also gained unlimited team seats (was $20/seat per Git contributor), which effectively removes the prior CMS/Identity 'every committer becomes a $19 Pro seat' gotcha for free-tier users who ever upgrade. Source ↗
Before: Form submissions consumed 1 credit each on Credit Free; upgrading to Pro because of CMS/Identity on a private repo billed every Git committer as a $19-$20/month seat.
After: Form submissions free on all Credit plans. Credit Pro includes unlimited team seats at no extra per-seat cost.
Cognition retired Devin's Core and Team plans and introduced Free, Pro, Max, Teams and Enterprise; Core users moved to the Free plan. Usage past a paid plan's allowance is billed in dollars, and only Enterprise still uses ACUs. Source ↗
Before: Core: pay-as-you-go from $20 with ACUs; Team: $500 a month
After: "We're retiring the old Core and Team plans and introducing a new lineup: Free, Pro, Max, Teams, and Enterprise." "If you're on Core today, you'll move to Free." Pricing page: Free $0, Pro $20/month, Max $200/month, Teams "$80/month for team plan + $40/mo per full dev seat".
Between 2026-03-23 and 2026-04-14, Comet cut the team members allowed on Opik Free Cloud from unlimited to 10. Source ↗
Before: "Unlimited team members" on the Free Cloud plan (comet.com/site/pricing, Internet Archive capture of 2026-03-23)
After: "Up to 10 team members" on the Free Cloud plan (comet.com/site/pricing, Internet Archive capture of 2026-04-14). The same page's FAQ still says "All plans include unlimited team members".
Qwen Code's free Qwen OAuth tier was discontinued on 2026-04-15, and new requests on it are rejected. Qwen's docs point users to Alibaba Cloud Coding Plan, OpenRouter, Fireworks AI or another provider. Source ↗
Before: A free Qwen OAuth tier for the Qwen Code CLI
After: "The Qwen OAuth free tier was discontinued on 2026-04-15. Existing cached tokens may continue working briefly, but new requests will be rejected." (Qwen Code authentication docs, read 2026-09-27)
Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client stopped accepting new customers on 2026-04-20. Existing Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client customers can keep using their devices, and can still order more, until AWS ends support on 2027-03-31. Source ↗
Before: WorkSpaces Thin Client: available for purchase, managed endpoint devices for Amazon WorkSpaces
After: "Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client will no longer accept new customers beginning April 20, 2026. As an existing customer, you can continue to use the service as normal until March 31, 2027." "For existing Amazon Business customers, we will allowlist your account to purchase Amazon WorkSpaces thin clients." (docs.aws.amazon.com, Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client end of support, read 2026-10-06)
X API per-request pricing overhaul: Owned Reads now $0.001/request; writes raised to $0.015/post (from ~$0.01); URL-containing posts now $0.20/post (massive increase). Following, likes, and quote-posts via API removed from all self-serve tiers. Announced on X Developer Community. Source ↗
Before: Pay-per-use credits with undifferentiated read pricing, writes ~$0.01/post, URL-containing posts priced the same as text posts. Following/likes/quote-posts accessible via self-serve API.
After: Owned Reads $0.001/request, writes $0.015/post, URL-containing posts $0.20/post. Following, likes, and quote-post endpoints removed from self-serve tiers.
On 2026-04-20, Grafana Cloud restricted new Free and Trial accounts. Email alerts and reports can only go to users of their own Grafana instance; other recipients are rejected. Cloud Alertmanager is unavailable. Other alert integrations such as webhooks are unaffected. Accounts opened before April 20 are unaffected. Grafana stated this safeguarded the platform against unauthorized emails. Source ↗
Before: Free and Trial accounts could send email alerts and reports to any address and use the Cloud Alertmanager; accounts opened before 2026-04-20 still can.
After: "Users who open Grafana Cloud Free and Trial accounts can only send email alerts and reports to users within their Grafana instance. Other email recipients will be rejected. Additionally, the Cloud Alertmanager is no longer available for these instances, requiring all alerting to be configured via the native Grafana Alertmanager. All other integrations for alerting remain functional." "Existing Grafana Cloud Free and Trial accounts opened before April 20 and all other Grafana Cloud account types are unaffected by these changes." (status.grafana.com/incidents/xg2h8ht1d44n, final update 2026-04-24, read 2026-11-02)
On 2026-04-22 Stripe made Managed Payments, its optional merchant-of-record service for digital products, generally available to businesses in 39 countries. It adds 3.5% per successful transaction to Stripe's standard processing fees, which did not change. Source ↗
Before: Managed Payments was in preview: private, with a wait-list, in January 2026, and public by February 2026
After: Generally available to businesses in 39 countries for 3.5% per successful transaction on top of standard processing fees; Stripe handles sales tax, VAT and GST, fraud prevention, disputes and transaction-level customer support
On April 22, 2026, Vertex AI Vector Search 2.0 was renamed Agent Retrieval. This was part of the Vertex AI to Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform naming changes. The documentation page is now titled "Agent Retrieval (formerly Vector Search 2.0)". Source ↗
Before: "Vertex AI Vector Search 2.0" (the Vertex AI name in Google's naming-changes table, Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform release notes, April 22, 2026).
After: "Agent Retrieval" (the Agent Platform name in the same table). Documentation title: "Agent Retrieval (formerly Vector Search 2.0)" (docs.cloud.google.com, read 2026-11-09).
Render replaced its workspace plans. Bandwidth for the Hobby tier went from 100 GB to 5 GB included per month, then $0.15 per GB, and Hobby workspaces are now capped at 25 services. New workspaces got the new plans on 2026-04-23 and existing workspaces moved on 2026-08-01. Free web services, Postgres and Key Value kept their specs, and free web services draw on the workspace's included bandwidth. Source ↗
Before: Hobby: "$ 0 USD per user/month plus compute costs", "Included bandwidth 100 GB / month", "Projects & environments 1 project with 2 environments" (pricing page, capture of 2026-04-22)
After: Hobby: "Deploy up to 25 services 5 GB of bandwidth included", "Bandwidth 5 GB per month then $0.15 per GB", "Projects and environments 1 project, 2 environments" (pricing page, capture of 2026-04-29)
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 ↗
Before: PaaS with $5/month in free credits for users whose GitHub account was more than 180 days old
After: ClawCloud's notice of April 23, 2026 (archived copy): "After careful consideration, we have made the difficult decision to discontinue our product and related services." Its schedule: Console, new customer sign-ups and purchases suspended April 23, 00:00 UTC; Console, existing free-tier customers, all services discontinued May 11, 00:00 UTC; the official website and documentation taken offline May 11. run.claw.cloud no longer resolves.
Amplitude cut its free Starter plan from up to 10M to up to 2M events a month between the Internet Archive's copies of its pricing page from 2026-04-12 and 2026-04-27. The 10K MTU limit stayed. Source ↗
Before: Starter, Free: "10K MTUs, up to 10M events" (amplitude.com/pricing, Internet Archive copy of 2026-04-12)
After: Starter, Free: "10K MTUs, up to 2M events" (amplitude.com/pricing, Internet Archive copy of 2026-04-27)
AWS App Runner closed to new customers. Service enters maintenance mode with no new features. AWS recommends migrating to Amazon ECS Express Mode for simplified container deployment. Source ↗
Before: App Runner: fully available to all customers, source code and container image deployment, automatic scaling, managed HTTPS
After: App Runner: closed to new customers April 30, maintenance mode only, existing services continue but no new features planned
The Node.js 20 Lambda runtime (nodejs20.x) was deprecated on 2026-04-30. Lambda blocks creating nodejs20.x functions from 2027-07-29 and updating them from 2027-08-31; AWS's runtime page says "you can continue to invoke your functions indefinitely". Source ↗
Before: Lambda nodejs20.x: fully supported runtime for creating, updating, and invoking Lambda functions
After: nodejs20.x: deprecated 2026-04-30; block function create 2027-07-29; block function update 2027-08-31; invocations are not blocked
Appwrite began enforcing Realtime limits on 2026-04-30, with the Free plan at 2 million messages a month, down from the 3 million its pricing page had listed, and a new 256 KB maximum message size. It announced the enforcement on 2026-03-23. Source ↗
Before: Free: 3M Realtime messages a month on the pricing page, not enforced; no maximum message size stated
After: Free: 2M Realtime messages a month, enforced from 2026-04-30; 256 KB maximum message size
On May 1, 2026 Backblaze raised B2 pay-as-you-go storage from $6 to $6.95 per TB a month and made Class B and Class C API calls free; they had been free for the first 2,500 a day per class and then charged per 1,000 calls. The first 10 GB of storage and free egress up to 3x average monthly storage did not change. Source ↗
Before: Pay-as-you-go storage "$6 /TB/30-day"; "Class A calls are free, and Class B and C calls are free for the first 2,500/day/class, after which they are charged at $0.0004/1,000 calls/day and $0.004/1,000 calls/day, respectively" (backblaze.com/cloud-storage/pricing, Internet Archive 2026-04-30)
After: Pay-as-you-go storage "$6.95 /TB/30-days"; "Class A, B, and C API calls are free for pay-as-you-go customers. Class D transactions cost $0.004 per 10,000 calls plus the first 2,500 calls per day are free." (backblaze.com/cloud-storage/pricing, read 2026-11-02). Backblaze's results release of May 4, 2026: "Effective May 1st, Backblaze increased pay-as-you-go storage pricing to support our continued investment in performance, while removing API transaction fees to simplify pricing and support customers."
PromoProxyeffective between 2026-03-09 and 2026-05-03low
Limits Reduced
The free tier now includes 3 GB of data per day, down from 1 GB. Source ↗
Before: Free cloud Secure Web Gateway. Free plan includes up to 5 users and 1 GB per day.
After: The Free plan is ¥0 /month, includes up to 5 users, and 3 GB of data per day.
Between the Internet Archive's captures of nx.dev/nx-cloud of 2026-04-23 and 2026-05-04, Nx Cloud's free Hobby plan began listing "5 complimentary contributors"; on 2026-04-23 the contributor allowance was listed on the Team plan only. Its 50,000 monthly credits did not change. Source ↗
Before: Hobby: "$0 ... Included for free / 50,000 monthly credits / AI integrations / Remote caching with Nx Replay / Distributed task execution with Nx Agents"; "5 free active contributors" was listed under Team (nx.dev/nx-cloud, capture of 2026-04-23)
Firecrawleffective between 2026-04-28 and 2026-05-07low
Limits Increased
The free tier now offers 1,000 credits/month instead of a one-time 500. Source ↗
Before: Web scraping API — 500 credits (up to 500 pages), 2 concurrent requests, no credit card required
After: Free Plan: 1,000 credits / month, scrape 1,000 pages, 2 concurrent requests. No cost, no card, no hassle.
Semgrepeffective between 2025-12-23 and 2026-05-08medium
Limits Reduced
The Free Edition now scans up to 10 private repositories and includes 60 AI credits; the Internet Archive's copy of 2025-12-23 listed unlimited private repositories. It still allows up to 10 contributors. Source ↗
Before: Free: up to 10 contributors; unlimited public and private repositories (Internet Archive copy of semgrep.dev/pricing, 2025-12-23)
After: Free Edition: Cross-file analysis with Pro rules, AI-powered detection, triage, and remediation, 60 AI credits included, Fast CI/CD deploy via Semgrep infrastructure, Scan up to 10 repositories, Maximum 10 contributors, Authentication via GitHub/GitLab
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 ↗
Before: DALL-E 3 API: $0.040-$0.120/image (1024x1024), paid via API credits
After: dall-e-2 and dall-e-3 removed from the API. OpenAI lists gpt-image-2, gpt-image-1 or gpt-image-1-mini as substitutes.
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 ↗
Before: $5K Bootstrapped / Stealth, $25K Up-and-coming, $100K Seed-funded, $250K High Growth; founded within the last 5 years
After: Tier 3 $10k (under $1M raised), Tier 2 $100k ($1M+ raised, affiliated partner), Tier 1 $350k ($5M+ raised, affiliated partner); founded within the last 10 years; latest round within the last 12 months
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 ↗
Before: Credits came as a fixed amount each month over the 1-year programme, with a monthly credit limit of unstated amount, and could not be used on GPU Droplets or H100 GPU products (Internet Archive capture of 2026-04-11)
After: Credits cannot be used on GPU Droplets, NVIDIA H100 GPU Kubernetes, Bare Metal GPUs, Dedicated Inference, Serverless Inference, third-party AI models hosted outside DigitalOcean, Paperspace Machines or Cloudways services; participants generally have a $10,000 monthly limit
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 ↗
Before: Free: €0 a month, forever free. 5 monitors, 1 team member, 1 month of data retention. No credit card required.
After: The page promotes a 14-day free trial and a paid plan starting at €19/month. It does not mention a permanently free tier for up to 5 servers.
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 ↗
Before: Free, $0: 1,000 operations per month, "10 MB max file size", uploading widget and API, basic image transformations; "Personal use only" (uploadcare.com/pricing, archived 2026-04-12)
After: Free tier includes 1,000 operations per month, 500 MB max file size, uploading widget, basic image transformations, and adaptive bitrate streaming. Personal use only.
Google added a Google AI Ultra plan at $99.99 a month with $40 a month in Google Cloud credits, and cut the top AI Ultra plan from $249.99 to $199.99 a month; the top plan keeps $100 a month in credits. Source ↗
Before: Google AI Pro "$19.99 / month" with $10 a month in Cloud credits; Google AI Ultra "$249.99 / month" with $100 a month.
After: "We're launching a $100/month AI Ultra plan, specifically tailored for developers, technical leads, knowledge workers and advanced creators" and "reducing the monthly price of our top-tier AI Ultra plan from $250 to $200". The Google Developer Program lists "$40 per user per month for Google AI Ultra (20TB)" and "$100 per user per month for Google AI Ultra (30TB)".
Terragrunt Scale's pricing page added a Free Forever plan at $0, with up to 25 infrastructure units, between the Internet Archive's copies of 2026-03-18 and 2026-05-21. The copy of 2026-03-18 lists only Team, at "$500/mo*", and Enterprise. Gruntwork had opened a waitlist for the free tier on 2025-12-15. Source ↗
Before: No free plan: Team ("$500/mo*") and Enterprise; "Get unlimited runs, runners, and resources with either plan." (terragrunt.com/terragrunt-scale, archived 2026-03-18)
After: "Free Forever", "$0": "Up to 25 infrastructure units*", "For individuals, start-ups, or teams looking to try before buying"; "All plans include unlimited runs and resources." (terragrunt.com/terragrunt-scale, archived 2026-05-21)
Tinybirdeffective between 2026-03-11 and 2026-05-21medium
Limits Reduced
The Free plan now allows 1,000 requests a day; the Internet Archive's copy of 2026-03-11 capped it at 10 queries per second with no daily limit. Source ↗
Before: Free: 0.25 vCPUs, 1 thread per request, 10 QPS max, 10 GB included storage, community support (Internet Archive copy of tinybird.co/pricing, 2026-03-11)
After: Free tier includes 1k requests per day, 10GB included storage, 0.25 vCPUs, and community support.
Between 2026-05-15 and 2026-05-23, Cerebras renamed its Free tier Free Trial and cut it from 30 to 5 requests a minute and from 60K-64K to 30K tokens a minute on gpt-oss-120b, Llama 3.1 8B and Qwen 3 235B. The 1M tokens a day did not change. Source ↗
Before: "Free" rate limits: gpt-oss-120b 30 requests a minute, 64K tokens a minute, 1M tokens a day; llama3.1-8b and qwen-3-235b-a22b-instruct-2507 30 requests a minute, 60K tokens a minute, 1M tokens a day; zai-glm-4.7 10 requests a minute and 100 a day (inference-docs.cerebras.ai/support/rate-limits, Internet Archive capture of 2026-05-15)
After: "Free Trial" rate limits: gpt-oss-120b, llama3.1-8b, qwen-3-235b-a22b-instruct-2507 and zai-glm-4.7 each 5 requests a minute, 30K tokens a minute, 1M tokens an hour and 1M a day (Internet Archive capture of 2026-05-23)
Cloudflare's startup programme stopped covering AI Gateway. The Internet Archive's capture of cloudflare.com/startups on 2026-05-25 lists "$250 on AI Gateway"; the capture of 2026-05-28 says "AI Gateway: Temporarily not covered by credits". The same capture changed Tier 2's criterion from "$1M+ raised" to "Under $5M raised". Source ↗
Before: $50,000 on Workers AI and $250 on AI Gateway; Tier 2 for startups with $1M+ raised
After: AI Gateway: Temporarily not covered by credits; Tier 2 for startups with under $5M raised
Google Maps Platform client ID authentication reached its announced end date on May 31, 2026 and is being phased out: Google periodically blocks client ID requests ahead of a final termination date it has not published. API keys replace it. Source ↗
Before: Former Premium Plan customers could authenticate Maps Platform requests with a client ID and URL-signing secret instead of an API key.
After: Client IDs are past Google's stated end date; access is restricted periodically, can be restored by unpausing or a temporary exemption, and Google requires migration to API keys.
Gemini 2.0 Flash and 2.0 Flash-Lite were shut down on 2026-06-01, as Google announced on 2026-02-18. Google names gemini-3.6-flash as the replacement for 2.0 Flash and gemini-3.1-flash-lite for 2.0 Flash-Lite. Source ↗
Before: Gemini 2.0 Flash and 2.0 Flash-Lite available on free and paid tiers
After: Gemini 2.0 Flash and 2.0 Flash-Lite shut down on 2026-06-01.
GitHub retired premium requests and now bills every Copilot plan in GitHub AI Credits. Copilot Free kept 2,000 code completions a month, and its 50 chat and agent requests a month became an allowance of AI credits. Plan prices did not change: Pro at $10 a month now includes $15 of usage and Pro+ at $39 includes $70, and the new Max plan is $100 with $200. Source ↗
Before: Free: "50 agent mode or chat requests per month 2,000 completions per month"; Pro $10 a month with 300 requests a month and the option to buy more (features page, capture of 2026-05-31)
After: "As of June 1, all Copilot plans bill based on GitHub AI Credits consumed." (GitHub changelog, 2026-06-01). Free: "2,000 completions per month Access to Haiku 4.5, GPT-5 mini, and more Copilot CLI"; Max: "$ 100 USD per user / month" (features page, capture of 2026-06-01)
Foursquare cut the free Places API allowance on Pro endpoints from 10,000 to 500 calls a month, effective 2026-06-01. Its docs: "Beginning June 1, 2026, the following Places API & V2 Pro endpoint rates go into effect for all users: 0 - 500 calls – $0.00 CPM ... You will now receive 500 free Pro calls." Source ↗
Before: Places API Pro endpoints: 0 – 10,000 calls at $0.00 CPM, then $15.00 CPM from 10,001 calls (pricing page, Internet Archive capture of 2026-04-19)
After: Places API Pro endpoints: the first 500 calls a month are free ($0.00 CPM), then $15.00 CPM from 501 to 100,000 calls, $12.00 CPM from 100,001 to 500,000 calls and $9.00 CPM above 500,000. Places API Premium endpoints: $18.75 CPM up to 100,000 calls, $15.00 CPM from 100,001 to 500,000 calls and $11.25 CPM above 500,000.
On 2026-05-21 X announced the end of its paid legacy Basic plans (monthly and annual). Each Basic subscription ended at the end of the subscriber's billing cycle after June 1, 2026 and moved to Pay-Per-Use. Opting out meant losing API access. Source ↗
Before: The paid Basic plan at $200 a month, sold beside Pay-Per-Use.
After: No Basic plan; former Basic monthly subscribers on Pay-Per-Use with a $200 initial credit charged to their card, annual subscribers with prorated credits.
Cognition renamed Windsurf Devin Desktop. Existing Windsurf users kept their plans and prices. Source ↗
Before: Windsurf, an AI code editor by Cognition
After: "We're excited to launch the next generation of Windsurf: Devin Desktop." "Your plan, pricing, extensions, and other features remain the same."
Directuseffective between 2026-05-15 and 2026-06-03medium
Pricing Restructured
Directus replaced its plans with a $0 Core plan (3 user seats, 25 collections, 5 flows), Team at $499 a month and Enterprise. Its Open Innovation Grant gives organizations under $5M in annual revenue and fewer than 50 employees a fully permissive license at no cost; before, any organization under $5M in total annual finances could use Directus freely. Directus Cloud is a $99 a month hosting add-on. Source ↗
Before: Free to self-host for organizations under $5 million in total annual finances, with a commercial license above that; Cloud Professional $99 a month billed annually (Internet Archive copy of directus.io/pricing, 2026-05-15)
After: Core $0 a month: 3 user seats, 25 collections, 5 flows. Team $499 a month billed annually. Open Innovation Grant: organizations under $5M in annual revenue and fewer than 50 employees get a fully permissive license, free when self-hosted. Directus Cloud is a $99 a month add-on.
Kiro stopped giving new users 500 bonus credits on sign-up, usable within 30 days, and now credits $20 toward the first paid plan instead. The change falls between the 2026-05-02 and 2026-06-03 captures of kiro.dev/pricing. Source ↗
Before: "Get 500 bonus credits usable within 30 days when you first sign up using social login or Builder ID." (kiro.dev/pricing, Internet Archive capture of 2026-05-02)
After: "Get $20 credited toward your subscription when you first upgrade to a paid plan using social login or Builder ID." The Free plan still includes 50 credits a month.
Liveblockseffective between 2026-04-11 and 2026-06-07medium
Pricing Restructured
The free plan dropped its cap of 500 monthly active rooms and raised realtime data storage from 256 MB to 1 GB, and added two metered limits: 3,000 realtime collaboration minutes and 3 million realtime data storage updates a month. Source ↗
Before: Free: unlimited monthly active users, up to 500 monthly active rooms, 256 MB realtime data storage, 512 MB file storage, 10 projects (Internet Archive copy of liveblocks.io/pricing, 2026-04-11)
After: Free: unlimited monthly active users and rooms, 3,000 realtime collaboration minutes, 3M realtime data storage updates, 1 GB realtime data stored, 512 MB file storage, 10 projects (Internet Archive copy of 2026-06-07)
Permit.io's pricing page added a limit of 2,000 relationship tuples to its free Community plan. The row first appears between the Internet Archive's captures of 2026-05-23 and 2026-06-09; the plan's other limits were unchanged. Source ↗
Before: Community: "MAU 1000 Tenants 20 Authorization Queries No Limit Roles 25 Resource Types 50 Condition Sets 5 Role Assignments 2,000 Groups 20 Resource Instances 2,000", with no relationship tuple row (pricing page, capture of 2026-05-23)
UptimeRobot's terms stopped limiting the Free plan to personal, non-commercial use between 2026-06-08 and 2026-06-11. The terms now allow commercial and business use. Source ↗
Before: The Free plan was for personal, non-commercial use only, and commercial use was prohibited.
After: The terms allow any use, including commercial and business use, under a Fair Use Policy for all plans. The Free plan still has 50 monitors at a 5-minute interval.
Oracle halved the Always Free Ampere A1 allowance. Oracle's Always Free documentation changed between 2026-06-05 and 2026-06-12, and Oracle announced the new allocation on 2026-07-21. The AMD micro VMs, storage and databases did not change. Source ↗
Before: "All tenancies get the first 3,000 OCPU hours and 18,000 GB hours per month for free for VM instances using the VM.Standard.A1.Flex shape"; "Processor: 4 OCPUs total", "Memory: 24 GB total" (Always Free Resources, capture of 2026-06-05)
After: "All tenancies get the first 1,500 OCPU hours and 9,000 GB hours per month for free for VM instances using the VM.Standard.A1.Flex shape"; "Processor: 2 OCPUs total", "Memory: 12 GB total" (Always Free Resources, capture of 2026-06-12, and as read on 2026-10-21)
Svixeffective between 2026-04-30 and 2026-06-14low
Limits Increased
The free tier now has a limit of 200 messages/second instead of 50 messages/second. Source ↗
AWS raised Activate Portfolio from up to $100,000 to up to $200,000 in credits. aws.amazon.com/startups/credits/ said "Up to $100,000 USD AWS Activate Credits" in the Internet Archive's capture of 2026-05-31 and "Up to $200,000 USD in Activate Credits" in the capture of 2026-06-14. Source ↗
Before: Activate Portfolio: up to $100,000 USD in AWS Activate credits, with an Activate Provider Org ID
After: Activate Portfolio: up to $200,000 USD in Activate Credits, with an Activate Provider Org ID; pre-Series B
From 2026-06-15, for new orders and rescales, Hetzner's EU cloud prices excluding IPv4 rose 30-38% on Cost-Optimized CX/CAX, 144-175% on Regular Performance CPX (shared resources) and 113-173% on General Purpose CCX (dedicated vCPUs). Existing contracts kept their terms. New dedicated servers also rose: the AX42 and AX102 cost €97.30 and €257.30 from 30 June, up from €57.30 and €122.30 after April in Germany. Source ↗
Before: EU prices excluding IPv4 after the April 2026 adjustment: CX23 €3.99/mo, CX33 €6.49, CX43 €11.99, CX53 €22.49, CAX11 €4.49, CPX22 €7.99, CPX62 €50.49, CCX13 €15.99, CCX63 €374.49. Cost-Optimized, Regular Performance and General Purpose plans all orderable.
After: EU prices excluding IPv4 from 2026-06-15: CX23 €5.49 (+37.6%), CX33 €8.49 (+30.8%), CX43 €15.99 (+33.4%), CX53 €29.49 (+31.1%), CAX11 €5.99 (+33.4%), CPX22 €19.49 (+143.9%), CPX62 €129.99 (+157.5%), CCX13 €42.99 (+168.9%), CCX63 €853.49 (+127.9%). US prices rose 107-209% and Singapore 51-111%. From 15 June, new AX42 and AX102 cost €187.30 and €452.30 a month. On 30 June, Hetzner cut them to €97.30 and €257.30. Setup fees on most dedicated servers were cut. Read on 2026-09-04: every Cost-Optimized plan (CX23-CX53, CAX11-CAX41) is marked "not available".
Weaviate Cloud replaced its 14-day sandbox trial with an always-free cluster (100,000 objects, 1 GB memory, 10 GB disk, 1 collection), announced on 2026-06-17: "The Weaviate Cloud managed database is now genuinely free, without a credit card or time expiration." Source ↗
Before: Cloud: "Free 14-day trial, then pay-as-you-go" on a sandbox cluster; Flex from $45/mo (pricing page, capture of 2026-05-29)
After: Always free: $0 /mo. 1 cluster per user, upgrade to paid anytime. 100,000 objects, 1 GB memory, 10 GB disk, 1 collection, up to 3 tenants, 2,000 req/day Embeddings + Query Agent (1,000 req/mo).
Retooleffective between 2026-05-21 and 2026-06-17medium
Pricing Restructured
Retool's Free plan replaced its AI prompting credits, up to 100 a month for each user, with 250 AI credits a month shared by the whole organization, between the Internet Archive's copies of retool.com/pricing of 2026-05-21 and 2026-06-17. The shared credits cover app building and AI Actions; the prompting credits had covered building and editing apps with Assist. The Free plan's 20 hours a month of Agents were already on the page before the change. Source ↗
Before: Free: "Up to 5 users", "Up to 20 hours/month of Agents", "Up to 100 monthly AI prompting credits per user" (retool.com/pricing, archived 2026-05-21)
After: Free: "Up to 20 hours/month of Agents", "250 AI credits/month"; "AI credits are pooled at the account level and cover all app building and AI Actions." (retool.com/pricing, archived 2026-06-17)
Google stopped serving Gemini Code Assist for individuals, its free tier, on 2026-06-18. The IDE extensions and Gemini CLI no longer accept Login with Google for the individuals, Google AI Pro and Google AI Ultra tiers. Google stopped selling new Standard and Enterprise subscriptions on 2026-10-09. Existing subscribers can add licenses until 2027-01-31. Annual subscriptions can auto-renew until 2027-01-31; monthly subscriptions can auto-renew until 2027-12-31. Agentic coding assistance is now available through Antigravity, included in Gemini Enterprise editions. Source ↗
Before: Gemini Code Assist for individuals: no cost, 6,000 code-related requests and 240 chat requests a day, signed in with a personal Google account
After: Stopped serving requests on 2026-06-18. Google stopped selling new Standard and Enterprise subscriptions on 2026-10-09; existing subscriptions continue to the end of their contracts.
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 ↗
Before: Login with Google on a personal account: 60 requests a minute and 1,000 requests a day at no cost
After: Login with Google no longer works for personal accounts. Gemini API key, Vertex AI, or a Code Assist Standard or Enterprise licence.
GitHub moved Copilot Student, the Copilot plan in the Student Pack, to auto model selection only, so students can no longer choose which model answers. Source ↗
Before: Copilot Student users could choose a model by hand as well as through auto model selection.
After: "Copilot Free and Student plans will now use Copilot auto model selection as the default and only model selection experience." (GitHub changelog, 2026-06-24). The Student Pack page now describes Copilot Student as unlimited code completions and an allowance of GitHub AI Credits, plus limited chat and agent usage with models available through auto model selection only.
GitHub limited Copilot Free and Copilot Student to auto model selection, so Free users can no longer choose which model answers. Source ↗
Before: Copilot Free: 2,000 completions a month and an allowance of GitHub AI Credits; "Copilot Student and Copilot Free users have access to a selection of models, which are subject to change." (GitHub docs, capture of 2026-06-02)
After: "Copilot Free and Student plans will now use Copilot auto model selection as the default and only model selection experience." (GitHub changelog, 2026-06-24)
ChatGPT Business and Codex keep running. From 2026-06-24, new self-serve ChatGPT Business workspaces cannot add Codex-only seats, which OpenAI now calls a legacy seat type. A workspace that added one before that date can keep adding them, and Standard and Premium ChatGPT seats include Codex. Source ↗
Before: ChatGPT Business and Enterprise workspaces could add Codex-only seats with no fixed seat fee, billed on token consumption (OpenAI, 2026-04-02)
After: "Starting June 24, 2026, new self-serve ChatGPT Business workspaces cannot add Codex seats, which are a legacy seat type. A Business workspace that added a legacy Codex seat before June 24, 2026, can continue to manage and add that legacy seat type. Standard and Premium ChatGPT seats both already include access to Codex." (help.openai.com/en/articles/8542115, read 2026-10-21)
Burner Mail removed its public Free plan on 2026-06-27. New users must upgrade to a paid plan before creating burner addresses or mailboxes. Existing free users keep their current free limits. Source ↗
Before: "Free 5 Burner Addresses 1 Mailbox 7 days Mailbox History" (burnermail.io/premium, capture of 2026-06-13)
After: "Burner Mail is removing the public Free plan and moving forward with a paid-only offering." "Existing free users will keep their current free limits." "new users will need to upgrade before creating burners or mailboxes." (Burner Mail blog, 2026-06-27)
Appwrite began deleting Free projects that stay paused for 90 days, with all their resources. Owners get email alerts before anything is deleted. Source ↗
Before: Free: paused projects kept their data until resumed
After: Free: projects paused for 90 days are deleted with all their resources, after email alerts
Google Tenor API shut down on June 30, 2026, and new API key sign-ups stopped on January 13, 2026. Only the API ended: Tenor.com, the GIF Keyboard apps and Gboard still serve Tenor GIFs. Developers who used the API need another GIF API. Source ↗
Before: Free public API for GIF search, trending GIFs, and autocomplete. Default rate limit of 1 request per second. Used by messaging apps and social platforms
After: API shutdown June 30, 2026. No new API keys issued since Jan 13, 2026. Existing keys work until shutdown date. No replacement API from Google
Fargate platform version 1.3.0 reached end of support on June 30, 2026. AWS blocked new tasks and services on it from June 15 and said it would terminate the tasks still running on it on June 30. Platform version 1.4.0 replaces it. Source ↗
Before: Fargate platform version 1.3.0 was a supported Linux platform version for ECS tasks and services.
After: Fargate platform version 1.3.0 is retired and gets no security updates; new tasks and services cannot use it, and 1.4.0 is the supported Linux version.
Turbopuffereffective between 2026-06-18 and 2026-06-30low
Pricing Restructured
Turbopuffer cut the Launch plan's monthly minimum from $64 to $16. Its changelog dates the cut to June 2026, and the Internet Archive's copy of 2026-06-18 still shows $64. Scale's minimum stays $256 a month. Source ↗
Before: Launch $64 a month minimum usage, Scale $256 a month, Enterprise from $4,096 a month (Internet Archive copy of turbopuffer.com/pricing, 2026-06-18)
After: Launch $16 a month minimum usage, Scale $256 a month, Enterprise from $4,096 a month
What to Watch in Q2
Signals and trends that haven't materialized as confirmed changes yet, but could impact developer infrastructure costs.
Microsoft 365medium
E3 price increase to $39.60/user/mo announced March 24. Takes effect in Q2. Not a developer tool per se, but signals broader Microsoft pricing trends that could affect Azure and GitHub.
OpenAIhigh
Assistants API deprecated with full shutdown August 26, 2026. Q2 is the migration window — developers must move to Responses API + Conversations API before the deadline.
AI API Providerslow
Competition intensifying: Groq, Cerebras, and OpenRouter offering generous free tiers while incumbents (OpenAI, Anthropic) focus on paid plans. Expect more free tier launches from challengers in Q2.
Cloud Providersmedium
Hetzner raised prices twice in 2026, citing increased infrastructure and hardware costs. OVHcloud, Netcup also raising prices.
Related Guides
Deep-dive pages for tools and categories affected by Q2 changes.
This preview covers Q2 2026 (April–June). For the Q1 2026 retrospective, see the Q1 2026 Developer Pricing Report. For the full timeline of all 513 tracked changes, visit /changes.
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