September 2025 saw more contractions than expansions, with 4 negative changes versus 3 positive. The overall trend leans bearish, though some vendors did expand their offerings.
7
Total Changes +2 vs last month
4
Negative same as last month
3
Positive +2 vs last month
0
Neutral
Changes by Type
Change Type
Count
Limits Increased
2
Pricing Restructured
1
Limits Reduced
1
Product Deprecated
1
New Free Tier
1
Free Tier Removed
1
Biggest Losers
Vendors whose changes cost users more
Netlify (1 negative change: pricing changed)
Restructured to credit-based pricing; sites pause on credit exhaustion Source ↗
Phase Two (1 negative change: free tier limits reduced)
Phase Two replaced its free shared-cluster Starter tier (fewer than 1,000 users and 10 SSO connections) with a $0 Starter tier capped at 100 users and no SSO connections. SSO started at the $749-a-month Premium tier. Source ↗
Kitemaker (1 negative change: product ends; its free plan ends with it)
Kitemaker was acquired by ClickUp, closed new signups when the deal was announced on 2025-05-06, and discontinued the service on 2025-09-01. Source ↗
Segment Startup Program (1 negative change: free tier removed)
Segment ended its Startup Program, which gave early-stage startups Segment free for up to two years. segment.com/industry/startups described it in the Internet Archive's capture of 2025-07-09; by the capture of 2025-09-04 the address redirected to Twilio's startups page, which says "We do not offer additional credits to startups at this time." Source ↗
Biggest Winners
Vendors that added or expanded free tiers
Neon (1 positive change)
Neon doubled the Free plan's compute from 50 to 100 CU-hours per project a month. Source ↗
redirect.pizza (1 positive change)
redirect.pizza raised its Free plan's monthly traffic limit from 100,000 to 250,000 requests, and gave paid plans unlimited traffic. Source ↗
Railway (1 positive change)
Railway added a Free plan: after the 30-day trial, $1 of free credit a month. It first appears in the Internet Archive's 2025-09-03 capture; the 2025-08-24 capture has no Free plan. Source ↗