19 pricing changes so far in October 2026 (through 2026-10-19), and 7 scheduled for later in the month — free tier removals, new additions, and trend analysis for developer tools.
Groq cut the free limits of gpt-oss-safeguard-20b from 30 to 3 requests a minute and from 8,000 to 2,000 tokens a minute; 1,000 requests and 200,000 tokens a day are unchanged. The Internet Archive's capture of console.groq.com/docs/rate-limits on 2026-09-28 lists 30 RPM and 8K TPM, and its capture of 2026-10-06 lists 3 RPM and 2K TPM. Groq announced no change. The other free chat models keep 30 requests and 8,000 tokens a minute. Source ↗
Fly.io (1 negative change: paid pricing changed)
Fly.io raised the price of memory on Machines to $6.00 per GB a month, from about $5, and left CPU prices unchanged. Every preset includes memory, so every preset costs more: shared-cpu-2x with 512 MB went from $3.89 to $4.39 a month in Ashburn and Secaucus, and performance-1x with 2 GB from $31.00 to $33.00. The smallest, shared-cpu-1x with 256 MB, is now $2.19. Source ↗
Mockoon (1 negative change: paid pricing changed)
Mockoon replaced its hosted Mockoon Cloud plans with self-hosted Mockoon Pro, launched in beta on 2026-10-01. The Team plan is now €10 per license a month, billed €120 per license a year, for self-hosting; before, Team was $100 a month billed annually for 5 members, 3 cloud-deployed mocks and 100,000 calls a month. A managed cloud is offered to Enterprise customers only. The open-source desktop app, CLI and Docker image stay free. Source ↗
From 2026-10-01, OVHcloud bills the local storage and public IPv4 address of its Gen3 Public Cloud instances (B3, C3 and R3) as separate lines: local storage at €0.0001458 per GB an hour (about €109 per TB a month) and an IPv4 address at €0.0027 an hour (about €1.97 a month). Instance hourly prices do not change, so total bills rise 1.4% to 21.9% depending on size, most for small instances. Block, Object and File Storage prices do not change. Source ↗
Together AI (1 negative change: paid pricing changed)
Together AI raised the minimum first credit purchase from $5 to $15; later purchases can still be $5. Its billing docs said $5 in the Internet Archive's capture of 2026-09-29 and have said $15 since the page was modified on 2026-10-07. Source ↗
Exa (1 negative change: free tier limits reduced)
Between 2026-09-16 and 2026-10-01, Exa replaced the $20 sign-up credit with a one-time $10 bonus for completing onboarding, which only a user's first team earns. The $10 monthly credit, available in full on the day of sign-up, continues. Source ↗
WhatsApp Business Platform (1 negative change: free tier limits reduced)
Meta resumed charging for WhatsApp service messages on 2026-10-01. Each business phone number gets 1,000 free service messages a month, and Meta charges from the 1,001st at the recipient market's service rate. Service messages had been free without a monthly limit since 2024-11-01. The same day, Meta began charging for utility templates sent inside an open customer service window, at the recipient market's utility rate; they had been free since 2025-07-01. Source ↗
Hugging Face (1 negative change: free tier limits reduced)
Hugging Face stopped giving free accounts included monthly Inference Providers credits; free users now have to buy credits or upgrade to PRO to call Inference Providers. Source ↗
Since October 1, 2026, Modal charges for network egress: the Starter plan includes 1 TiB a month, Team 10 TiB and Enterprise 100 TiB, and egress beyond that costs $0.04 per GiB. Source ↗
Lensdump's Terms of Service, effective 10 October 2026, create every new account on a paid plan; the Free plan cannot be selected at sign-up and stays only with accounts that existed before paid plans were introduced. Source ↗
Browser Use (1 negative change: free tier limits reduced)
By October 4, 2026, Browser Use cut its one-time sign-up credit from $15 to $1. Its pricing page read "$15 once per person" on September 21 and "$1 once per person" on October 4; its homepage still said "$15 free credits" on September 29. Source ↗
Cursor (1 negative change: pricing changed)
From October 12, 2026, new subscribers buy Cursor as part of The X Subscription, one plan for Grok, Cursor and X: Free $0, Plus $8, Premium $30, Super $100 and Ultra $200 a month, with one weekly usage pool shared with Grok that covers Cursor's own models. Third-party models such as Claude, GPT and Gemini are not included in any plan: on Premium and above they cost the model's API list price, paid from prepaid credit, and Free and Plus cannot use them. Hobby, Pro ($20), Pro+ ($60), Ultra and the Teams Standard and Premium seats continue for existing subscribers until they switch. Source ↗
Biggest Winners
Vendors that added or expanded free tiers
Neon (1 positive change)
Neon raised the Free plan's Postgres storage from 0.5 GB to 1 GB per project and added a limit of 20 GB across all of an account's projects. Source ↗
Deprecations and Other Changes
Changes counted as neither negative nor positive, such as products and models retired or closed to new users
Prisma Accelerate (product deprecated 2026-10-02)
Prisma stopped offering Accelerate for new setups in its Console by 2026-10-02, and Accelerate, including Prisma Postgres connections that go through it, is retired on 2026-12-01. Existing Accelerate connections keep working until then. Prisma Postgres keeps running, and its databases come with connection pooling. Source ↗
AWS (product deprecated 2026-10-07)
AWS Proton reaches end of support on 2026-10-07, when its console and resources stop being accessible. AWS: "Your deployed CloudFormation stacks and the resources they manage will remain intact and continue to function." New customers could not sign up after 2025-10-07. Source ↗
Deno Deploy (product deprecated 2026-10-09)
Deno Deploy keeps running for now. Deno announced on 2026-10-09 that it is joining Cloudflare and that Deno Deploy will keep running for six months and then shut down; Deno gave no exact date. Deno will help paying customers move to Cloudflare Workers. Source ↗
OpenAI Codex (product deprecated 2026-10-14)
ChatGPT and Codex keep running. Only the GPT-5.5 model retires from ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work and Codex on all plans on 2026-10-14: OpenAI names GPT-6 Sol as the replacement on Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise and Edu plans and GPT-6 Luna on Free and Go plans. The OpenAI API is not affected. Source ↗
NVIDIA NIM (product deprecated 2026-10-15)
NVIDIA's free API endpoints keep running. NVIDIA retired Kimi K3 (moonshotai/kimi-k3) from its free endpoints on build.nvidia.com on October 15, 2026; its model page says it is no longer supported after 10/15/2026. Source ↗
NVIDIA NIM (product deprecated 2026-10-19)
NVIDIA's free API endpoints keep running. NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super (nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b) can be called on NVIDIA's free endpoints until October 19, 2026; NVIDIA's model page says it will no longer be supported after 10/19/2026. Source ↗
Category Breakdown
Which categories saw the most pricing changes
Category
Total
Negative
Positive
AI / ML
7
5
0
AI Coding
2
1
0
Databases
2
0
1
Cloud Hosting
2
1
0
DevOps
1
0
0
API Development
1
1
0
Cloud IaaS
1
1
0
Messaging
1
1
0
Design
1
1
0
Browser Automation
1
1
0
Scheduled
Google Gemini API (effective 2026-10-20)
The Gemini API keeps serving gemini-2.5-pro, gemini-2.5-flash and gemini-2.5-flash-lite for existing users with no shutdown date. On Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform (formerly Vertex AI) they can be called until October 20, 2026, when Google retires them. Google names gemini-3.8-flash as a replacement for all three. Source ↗
Google Gemini API (effective 2026-10-22)
The Gemini API keeps running. Gemini Omni Flash Preview (gemini-omni-flash-preview) and the Veo 3.1 preview models (veo-3.1-generate-preview, veo-3.1-fast-generate-preview and veo-3.1-lite-generate-preview) can be called until October 22, 2026, when Google shuts them down. Google names gemini-omni-1.1-flash as the replacement for all four. Source ↗
Together AI (effective 2026-10-22)
The Together AI API keeps running. meta-llama/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct-Turbo and deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 can be called on serverless inference until October 22, 2026, when Together removes them. Together recommends meta-models/Muse-Glimmer-30B or a dedicated endpoint in place of Llama 3.3 70B, and deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash in place of DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731. Source ↗
OpenAI (effective 2026-10-23)
The OpenAI API keeps running. The gpt-3.5-turbo, gpt-4, gpt-4-turbo, gpt-4-1106-preview, gpt-4.1-nano, gpt-4o-2024-05-13, gpt-image-1, o1, o1-pro, o3-mini and o4-mini models, with their fine-tuned versions, can be called until October 23, 2026, when OpenAI shuts down their access. OpenAI names a substitute for each model: gpt-3.5-turbo to gpt-5.6-terra; gpt-4, gpt-4-turbo, gpt-4-1106-preview and gpt-4o-2024-05-13 to gpt-5.6-sol; gpt-4.1-nano to gpt-5.6-luna; gpt-image-1 to gpt-image-2.5-sunburst or gpt-image-2.5-flare; o1 to gpt-5.6-sol; o1-pro to gpt-5.6-sol with reasoning.mode: pro; o3-mini to gpt-5.6-sol; o4-mini to gpt-5.6-terra. Source ↗
Google Gemini API (effective 2026-10-23)
The Gemini API keeps running. The Deep Research agent preview deep-research-pro-preview-12-2025 can be called until October 23, 2026, when Google shuts it down. Google names deep-research-preview-04-2026 as the replacement. Source ↗
NVIDIA NIM (effective 2026-10-27)
NVIDIA's free API endpoints keep running, and GLM 5.3 Flash (z-ai/glm-5.3-flash) is not affected. GLM 5.3 (z-ai/glm-5.3) can be called on NVIDIA's free endpoints until October 27, 2026; NVIDIA's model page says it will be deprecated on 10/27/2026 and no longer supported after 10/28/2026. Source ↗
apiary.io (effective 2026-10-31)
Apiary reaches end of life on 2026-10-31, when Oracle stops the service and deletes remaining instances. Oracle announced it on 2025-10-28. The Free plan is the only one still open, so it ends with the product. Oracle instructed customers using the API Blueprint format to convert to OpenAPI and move the files to tools such as Apimatic, Postman, Swagger Editor, Stoplight, Redocly, or Bump.sh. Source ↗