October 2025 was a tough month for developer free tiers. With 5 negative changes versus 0 positive, the trend continues toward tighter limits and eliminated offerings. Developers relying on free tiers should review their dependencies.
5
Total Changes -2 vs last month
5
Negative +1 vs last month
0
Positive -3 vs last month
0
Neutral
Changes by Type
Change Type
Count
Limits Reduced
4
Pricing Restructured
1
Biggest Losers
Vendors whose changes cost users more
Augment Code (1 negative change: pricing changed)
Shifted from per-seat subscription to credit-based consumption model Source ↗
MailerSend cut its Free plan from 3,000 emails a month to 500, with at most 100 a day, and made its Hobby plan $7 a month. New sign-ups got the new plans between 2025-10-17 and 2025-10-22 (Internet Archive captures); existing free accounts moved on 2025-12-02. Source ↗
Expo's Free plan went from 30 builds a month (up to 15 iOS) to 15 Android and 15 iOS builds, and gained 60 minutes of CI/CD Workflows, between the pricing-page captures of 2025-09-20 and 2025-10-09. Source ↗
Logto removed role-based access control from the Free plan and cut its included tokens from 100K to 50K, effective 2025-10-01. Its announcement: "Both the token quota change and RBAC removal from Free plan will take effect on October 1." Source ↗
SimplePDF's Free plan stopped including form submissions: its embed page listed "3 submissions per document" on the Free plan in the Internet Archive's capture of 2025-10-11 and no longer did on 2025-10-28. The Free plan still embeds the editor on your site, with unlimited PDFs and end users. Source ↗