December 2025 leaned positive with 4 expansions versus 2 contractions. A welcome shift for cost-conscious developers.
6
Total Changes +5 vs last month
2
Negative
4
Positive +3 vs last month
0
Neutral
Changes by Type
Change Type
Count
Limits Increased
3
Limits Reduced
1
New Free Tier
1
Product Deprecated
1
Biggest Losers
Vendors whose changes cost users more
Google Gemini (1 negative change: free tier limits reduced)
Google cut the Gemini API free tier's rate limits on 2025-12-06. Gemini 2.5 Flash went from 10 requests a minute and 250 a day to 5 and 20, and Gemini 2.5 Pro went to no free requests. Google's rate-limits page stopped listing free-tier limits the same day. Source ↗
Neptune.ai (1 negative change: product ends; its free plan ends with it)
Neptune shut down its hosted app and API on March 5, 2026, after agreeing to be acquired by OpenAI; new sign-ups and trials had closed on December 3, 2025. Source ↗
Biggest Winners
Vendors that added or expanded free tiers
Neon (3 positive changes)
Neon made Neon Auth available on all plans, including Free. Source ↗
Neon raised the Free plan's project limit from 80 to 100, the last of seven increases since 2025-08-29, when the limit was 10. Source ↗
Neon removed the $5 monthly minimum from its paid Launch and Scale plans, which now bill only for what you use. Source ↗
Terragrunt Scale (1 positive change)
Gruntwork launches free tier for Terragrunt Scale IaC orchestration platform, positioned as HCP Terraform free tier alternative ahead of HashiCorp March 31, 2026 EOL. Includes GitOps, drift detection, and module update automation Source ↗