1 developer tool pricing change tracked this week

September 7–13, 2026

This Week in Developer Pricing

1 developer tool pricing change tracked this week

44 pages read for the first time

Other Notable Changes (1)

corrected Google GLM 5 AI / ML
Data correction - our own entry for Google GLM 5 was incorrect. Google publishes no model called GLM 5; GLM is Zhipu AI's model family, and the catalogue's separate Zhipu AI record already lists the GLM-4 series. The Vertex AI model reference this record cited never writes GLM: that URL redirects to a live Google page of 73,312 readable characters in which GLM appears zero times, and the terms we published from it - '10 frames per second' - are a video sampling rate from the Gemini API documentation. Source ↗

Pages read for the first time (44)

44 pricing pages read for the first time during September 7–13, 2026. Each records terms that differ from what we had stored, on a page that does not say when they changed — so they are dated by discovery and are not counted as changes that took effect during September 7–13, 2026.

reduced Vercel discovered 2026-09-07 · effective date unknown Cloud Hosting
The Hobby plan still exists, but several limits have been adjusted or are now pay-as-you-go. Edge Requests are now 1M included / month, then starting at $2 per 1M. Fast Data Transfer is 100 GB / month included, then starting at $0.15 per GB. Blob Storage is 1 GB / month included, then $0.023 per GB. Image Transformations are 5K / month included, then starting at $0.05 per 1K. Function Invocations are 1M / month included, then starting at $0.60 per 1M. Active CPU is 4 hours / month included, then starting at $0.128 per hour. Provisioned Memory is 360 GB-hrs / month included, then starting at $0.0106 per GB-hr. Source ↗
reduced CloudAMQP discovered 2026-09-09 · effective date unknown Messaging
The Little Lemur tier now has 10,000 queued messages instead of 1M messages/month, and the message quota is 1M messages/month instead of being unlimited. Source ↗
restructured SigNoz discovered 2026-09-09 · effective date unknown Monitoring
The free tier is now described as 'Get Started - Free' and starts at $49/month including $49 of usage, rather than being a purely free OSS option. The startup program now offers $19/month for the first 12 months with $19 of telemetry usage. Source ↗
restructured Apidog discovered 2026-09-10 · effective date unknown API Development
The free tier now offers a 14-day trial instead of being perpetually free. The description of features is also more detailed, and includes limits on cloud mock server calls (10K/month). Source ↗
reduced ploi.io discovered 2026-09-07 · effective date unknown Server Management
The free tier now has limitations on sites and deployments. It also appears there is a 5-day free trial of the Pro plan, not a perpetually free tier for one server. Source ↗
reduced localazy.com discovered 2026-09-07 · effective date unknown Localization
The free plan now covers up to 200 source keys, down from 1,000 source language strings. It remains a free plan with unlimited seats and languages, not a trial. Source ↗
reduced OpenRouter discovered 2026-09-07 · effective date unknown AI / ML
The free tier now has a rate limit of 50 requests/day, and offers access to 25+ free models and 4 free providers. Previously ~30 free models and ~20 RPM per model. There is also a $25,000/month inference limit with no fees, followed by a 5% fee. Source ↗
reduced Tinybird discovered 2026-09-07 · effective date unknown Analytics
The free tier now has 1k requests per day instead of unlimited, and the description of the free tier has changed. Source ↗
reduced Gel discovered 2026-09-07 · effective date unknown Databases
RAM and vCPU limits have changed. Source ↗
reduced Socket.dev discovered 2026-09-07 · effective date unknown Security
The free tier now has 3 members instead of 5, and 500 API quota per hour instead of unlimited. It also includes Socket Basics - SAST, Secrets, and Container scans. Source ↗
increased Shake discovered 2026-09-09 · effective date unknown Mobile Development
The free tier now has unlimited bug and crash reports, 10,000 app installs, and access to the Slack community. Source ↗
reduced LiveKit discovered 2026-09-09 · effective date unknown Communication
LiveKit's own page now redirects to livekit.com. The 'Build' tier is now a $0/mo plan with different included limits. The free tier includes 5,000 WebRTC minutes, 1,000 agent session minutes, 5 concurrent agent sessions, 100 concurrent connections, and 1 free US phone number. The current state offers 5,000 WebRTC minutes. The agent session minutes, concurrent sessions, and connections are now different. Source ↗
reduced dnspod.com discovered 2026-09-10 · effective date unknown DNS & Domain Management
The free tier now has limits on subdomain levels (5) and TTL (600s), and URL forwards (2) and load balancing (10). Source ↗
reduced Qdrant discovered 2026-09-10 · effective date unknown AI / ML
The free tier now offers 1GB RAM and 4GB disk, down from 1GB cluster (which likely meant storage). Source ↗
reduced Thunder Client discovered 2026-09-10 · effective date unknown API Development
The free plan now includes unlimited collection runs, and previously 1 local collection run per month is removed. The Starter plan is now billed annually. Source ↗
restructured ipapi discovered 2026-09-07 · effective date unknown Dev Utilities
The free tier still exists, but the description has been updated. The free tier now offers up to 1000 lookups/day (approximately 30K/month) and is intended for testing & development only, not production use. The page also details several paid plans with varying lookup limits and pricing, starting at $15/month for 60,000 lookups. Source ↗
restructured LocalStack discovered 2026-09-07 · effective date unknown Testing
The Hobby plan is still available and free, but the details have been updated. The number of emulated services is still 30+, and it includes a personal sandbox and CI testing. However, the pricing for other tiers has changed (Base is now $39/month or $45/month, Ultimate is $89/month), and there are more detailed feature breakdowns for each tier. A 'Base' tier has been added at $29/month billed annually. There is also a LocalStack for Snowflake offering with its own tiers and pricing. Source ↗
restructured Foursquare discovered 2026-09-07 · effective date unknown Maps/Geolocation
The Spatial Desktop Basic plan is $0/month through 2026, includes $1 of agent tokens, 3 GB of cloud storage, and 5 shared projects. The Places API free tier is now 10,000 free calls on Pro endpoints. The pricing for Pro and Premium endpoints has been updated with specific CPMs based on call volume. Source ↗
restructured Netlify discovered 2026-09-07 · effective date unknown Cloud Hosting
The free tier now offers 300 credits/month. Source ↗
restructured Storj discovered 2026-09-09 · effective date unknown Storage
The free trial now includes 25GB of storage and 2 Object Mount licenses. The page details a $5 minimum monthly fee that is waived during the trial and for accounts paying in STORJ token. Source ↗
restructured Grafana discovered 2026-09-09 · effective date unknown Monitoring
The free tier now includes 10k metrics, 50GB logs, 50GB traces, 50GB profiles, 50k frontend sessions, and 500VUh of k6 testing for 3 users. Source ↗
restructured Fastly discovered 2026-09-09 · effective date unknown CDN
The free tier now offers 100 GB of bandwidth, 1 Million requests, and 5 GB of object storage. The page details pricing beyond the free tier, indicating the free tier is a starting point and not necessarily a permanently free offering. Several other features like Compute, Websockets, and DDoS protection also have free tiers with specific limits. Source ↗
restructured Amplitude discovered 2026-09-09 · effective date unknown Startup Perks
The Startup Scholarship has been replaced with a general 'Early Stage Startup Pricing' offer. The limits are the same (100M events/month), but the description of included features is broader (includes MCP and agents). Year two is now 40% off the annual Plus plan, or the option to drop to a free 2M events/month plan. Source ↗
restructured GitHub discovered 2026-09-09 · effective date unknown Source Control
GitHub Copilot access for students is now limited. Previously offering full access, it now offers a plan with 'limited chat and agent usage with models available through auto model selection only'. Additionally, new Copilot Student signups are paused until 2026-04-20 due to infrastructure strain. Source ↗
restructured MockAPI discovered 2026-09-10 · effective date unknown API Development
The page now explicitly lists paid tiers with pricing ($5/month and $35/year) and features. Source ↗
restructured Pinecone discovered 2026-09-10 · effective date unknown AI / ML
The Starter plan is still available as a free tier. The details have been expanded. The page now lists specific example workloads and their estimated usage within the Starter plan. It also details pricing for exceeding the free tier limits for various components like storage, write units, read units, egress, and assistant features. Source ↗
model change Chroma discovered 2026-09-07 · effective date unknown Databases
The free tier has changed. The current pricing page shows a Starter plan with $5 in free credits and usage-based pricing for writes, storage, and queries. Source ↗
model change imgix discovered 2026-09-07 · effective date unknown CDN
Imgix no longer offers a permanent free tier, only a 30-day trial with 100 credits. Source ↗
increased transfernow discovered 2026-09-07 · effective date unknown Storage
The free tier now offers 5 GB per transfer and 100 GB of storage, with files available for 7 days. A 'Starter' plan with 10 GB per transfer and 100 GB of storage for 3 EUR/month has also been added. Source ↗
increased AWS Activate discovered 2026-09-07 · effective date unknown Startup Perks
The AWS Activate program now offers up to $200,000 in credits, an increase from $100,000 for VC/accelerator-backed startups. The description of credits for AI startups building on custom silicon is no longer present. Source ↗
increased Storyblok discovered 2026-09-07 · effective date unknown Headless CMS
The free tier (Starter) still exists. The description of included features is more detailed on the pricing page. Source ↗
increased Fivetran Activations discovered 2026-09-09 · effective date unknown Analytics
The free tier for Activations now offers 500,000 MAR for connections and 3,500 MAR for Activations. Source ↗
restricted Nhost discovered 2026-09-07 · effective date unknown Databases
The free tier now pauses projects after 1 week of inactivity. Source ↗
new tier Mintlify discovered 2026-09-07 · effective date unknown API Development
The 'Hobby' tier is no longer available. The lowest tier is now 'Starter' at $0/month. Includes 5 editor seats, a web editor, and API playground. Source ↗
model change inboxkitten.com discovered 2026-09-10 · effective date unknown Email
A free tier still exists, the details have changed. Have their own free tiers but incur costs if limits are exceeded. The auto-delete time is stated as 'several hours' but also 'officially 3 days according to mailgun'. The emphasis on self-hosting and external service costs introduces a new element. Source ↗
model change Authress discovered 2026-09-10 · effective date unknown Auth
The first 1000 billable calls are free, and after that, pricing is 0.0012 USD per call. Source ↗
increased SiteDots discovered 2026-09-07 · effective date unknown Communication
The number of dots per project in the free plan has increased from 6 to 12. Source ↗
increased Twingate discovered 2026-09-07 · effective date unknown Security
The free tier now includes up to 50 resources, not 10. Source ↗
increased Better Stack Logs discovered 2026-09-07 · effective date unknown Logging
The free tier now offers 3 GB logs retained for 3 days, 3 GB traces retained for 3 days, 30 GB metrics, and 3 GB web events retained for 3 days. It also includes 10 monitors & heartbeats, 1 status page, Slack & e-mail alerts, 100,000 exceptions per month, and 5,000 session replays. Source ↗
increased Deepnote discovered 2026-09-09 · effective date unknown Notebooks & Data Science
The free tier now includes 10 AI completions per month, 5 calls per month for Deepnote Agent, generate code, edit code, and explain code. It also includes 5 projects. Source ↗
increased SimpleLocalize discovered 2026-09-09 · effective date unknown Localization
The free Community plan now offers 500 translation keys instead of 250. Source ↗
increased Infisical discovered 2026-09-09 · effective date unknown Secrets Management
The free tier now offers unlimited projects instead of 3. Source ↗
new tier GrowthBook discovered 2026-09-09 · effective date unknown Feature Flags
The Starter tier is still offered, but the description of the Open Source tier is no longer accurate. The page now explicitly states an 'Open Source' tier with the same limits as the Cloud Starter tier (3 users, unlimited flags/experiments/traffic), but also offers an Enterprise tier for self-hosted options with more features. Source ↗
increased Svix discovered 2026-09-09 · effective date unknown Messaging
The free tier now has a limit of 200 messages/second instead of 50 messages/second. Source ↗

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