May 2025 was a tough month for developer free tiers. With 2 negative changes versus 0 positive, the trend continues toward tighter limits and eliminated offerings. Developers relying on free tiers should review their dependencies.
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Total Changes -3 vs last month
2
Negative -3 vs last month
0
Positive
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Neutral
Changes by Type
Change Type
Count
Free Tier Removed
1
Product Deprecated
1
Biggest Losers
Vendors whose changes cost users more
SendGrid (1 negative change: free tier removed)
Perpetual free tier (100 emails/day) eliminated. Replaced with 60-day trial only. Paid plans start at $19.95/month Source ↗
Fauna (1 negative change: product ends; its free plan ends with it)
Fauna turned off its hosted database service on 2025-05-30, as announced on 2025-03-19, and said all accounts and their data would be permanently deleted. It had open-sourced the core database under the Apache 2.0 license on 2025-04-29. Source ↗