August 24–30, 2026

This Week in Developer Pricing

1 free tier removed across 1 developer tool pricing change

1 free tier removed147 pages read for the first time

Biggest Losses (1)

removed OpenAI AI/ML
Assistants API deprecated, full shutdown August 26, 2026. Developers must migrate to Responses API + Conversations API

Pages read for the first time (147)

147 pricing pages read for the first time during August 24–30, 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 August 24–30, 2026.

removed Segment discovered 2026-08-28 Analytics
The Startup Program with $50,000 in credits is no longer listed. Instead, Segment offers a $120/month discount to non-profits.
removed Middleware.io discovered 2026-08-28 Monitoring
The free tier now offers a 14-day free trial with unlimited data ingestion, instead of a 'free forever' plan with specific limits. Previously 100 GB/month data, 1,000 RUM sessions/month, 20,000 synthetic checks/month, and 14-day data retention.
removed Financial Data discovered 2026-08-28 Dev Utilities
The free tier information is no longer available. The pricing page details scalable performance tiers of 10, 30, or 50 requests per second, and mentions flat-rate subscriptions without any mention of a free plan or 300 requests per day.
removed Plausible Analytics discovered 2026-08-28 Analytics
The page highlights open source and privacy-friendly aspects, it primarily focuses on paid plans starting at $9/month. A free trial is offered. It's not a permanently free open-source option.
removed DynamicDocs discovered 2026-08-28 Dev Utilities
The pricing now states documents can be created from $0.062 per PDF.
removed fivenines.io discovered 2026-08-28 Monitoring
The page now highlights a 14-day free trial and a starting plan at €19/month.
removed IPTrace discovered 2026-08-28 Dev Utilities
The free tier is being discontinued and users are directed to switch to ipstack. The page now offers paid plans starting at $10/month for 200k requests.
removed Survicate discovered 2026-08-28 Forms
The free plan is now a 10-day trial with limited features (25 responses, 100 data points, 25+ integrations). The original free plan with 25 responses/month, 1000 stored responses, and 3 collaborators is no longer available.
removed Simple Observability discovered 2026-08-28 Monitoring
Pricing starts at $3/month.
removed Xitoring.com discovered 2026-08-28 Monitoring
The page highlights a 14-day free trial, and then lists paid plans starting at $4.99/mo.
removed Burnermail discovered 2026-08-28 Email
Burner Mail is removing its free plan. Explicitly states the free plan is being removed.
removed Circum Icons discovered 2026-08-28 Design
The free tier no longer exists. The pricing page advertises access to 1600+ icons for $9.
removed Rybbit discovered 2026-08-28 Analytics
The free tier no longer exists. The lowest tier is a paid 'Standard' plan at $13/month billed annually, or a 'Pro' plan at $26/month billed annually. There is a 7-day free trial available, but it requires starting a paid subscription.
removed Highlight.io discovered 2026-08-28 Logging
Highlight.io's own page now redirects to launchdarkly.com.
removed Augment Code discovered 2026-08-28 AI Coding
The free tier has been removed. The lowest tier is now a paid 'Business' plan at $100/month.
removed LogRocket discovered 2026-08-28 Error Tracking
The pricing page now focuses on session-based pricing starting at $76/month for 1K sessions, and offers a free trial.
removed Formbricks discovered 2026-08-28 Forms
The Community/Free tier with unlimited surveys and responses no longer exists. The free tier, 'Hobby', offers 250 responses per month and core survey features.
removed ScraperAPI discovered 2026-08-28 Web Scraping
The free tier now offers a 7-day trial with 5,000 API credits instead of a permanent free tier with 1,000 API credits.
removed Unkey discovered 2026-08-28 API Gateway
The free tier information is no longer present. The lowest tier is $5/month with limited resources. Active keys are now a usage-based cost ($0.002/month).
removed Webvizio discovered 2026-08-28 Communication
The deal is no longer a permanently free tier. It is now a 7-day free trial.
removed InstallOnAir discovered 2026-08-28 Mobile Development
The page offers a free trial of 8 days, and then requires payment to extend the expiry date.
removed ploi.io discovered 2026-08-28 Server Management
The free tier no longer exists. The lowest tier is a paid 'Basic' plan.
new Ketch discovered 2026-08-28 Security
The free tier now offers full-feature consent management at $0/month with no credit card required, and no limits on jurisdictions or customization.
deprecated Hypertune discovered 2026-08-28 Feature Flags
Hypertune is shutting down and no longer accepting new sign ups. While a free tier is still listed, it's for testing/evaluation only and the service will be discontinued on August 10, 2026.
deprecated smartlook.com discovered 2026-08-28 Analytics
Smartlook is being deprecated. A free plan will exist until September 30, 2027, new subscriptions are not being sold as of May 31, 2026, and renewals are ending August 31, 2026.
deprecated lost-pixel.com discovered 2026-08-28 Testing
Lost Pixel is being sunset as they are joining Figma. While a free tier still exists, it's now listed as 'Hobby Free' and offers 7,000 snapshots/month. There are also paid tiers: Startup ($100/mo), Business ($250/mo), and Scale ($670/mo).
reduced Deno Deploy discovered 2026-08-28 Cloud Hosting
Egress bandwidth for the free tier is now 20GiB, down from 100 GB. KV storage remains at 1 GiB, but the free tier now includes 1,000,000 KV read units and 500,000 KV write units. CPU time is now 10 hours, down from 15 hours. Revision storage is 10 GiB.
reduced Harness CI discovered 2026-08-28 CI/CD
The free plan now has significantly reduced limits. Previously 2,000 build credits/month. The current page details limits for concurrent pipeline executions (up to 60), storage (250GB), and organizations (up to 1).
reduced Algolia discovered 2026-08-28 Search
The 'Build' tier is no longer explicitly listed. The free tier now includes 10K search requests/month and 50K records. Previously 10K search requests/month and 1M records. The 'Grow' plan includes 10K search requests/month and 100K records.
reduced Zipcodestack discovered 2026-08-28 Dev Utilities
The free tier now offers 300 requests/month, up from 10,000. The free tier also has a daily limit of 100 requests and a rate limit of 10 requests per minute.
reduced codehooks.io discovered 2026-08-28 Databases
The free tier now has significantly reduced API call limits (1/sec, 500/day). Previously 60/minute.
reduced forwardemail.net discovered 2026-08-28 Email
The free tier now has a 50MB attachment limit and only supports email forwarding. Sending mail is now a paid feature.
reduced Basecamp discovered 2026-08-28 Project Management
The free tier now allows only 1 project and a maximum of 5 users. Previously 3 projects and 20 users.
reduced Sanity discovered 2026-08-28 Headless CMS
The free tier now includes 2 datasets (public only). Previously 10K documents, 1M CDN requests/month, 100 GB assets, and 20 users. The free tier now has limits on datasets, documents, and CDN requests.
reduced Zuplo discovered 2026-08-28 API Gateway
The free tier now has a limit of 100K requests/month, not 1M. The free tier also does not include custom domains.
reduced GitBook discovered 2026-08-28 Documentation
The free tier no longer includes AI search, AI writing/editing, or a custom domain. It now has a limit of 10 messages per week for GitBook Agent.
reduced Mercury discovered 2026-08-28 Startup Programs
The Datadog offer is missing, the AWS credit is reduced to $5k, the Google Cloud credit is missing, and the QuickBooks Online discount is reduced to 90% off.
reduced Roboflow discovered 2026-08-28 AI / ML
The free Public plan now offers 15 credits/month instead of 250,000 images, 10 projects, 2 users, and $60/month free inference credits.
reduced Expo discovered 2026-08-28 Mobile Development
The free tier now includes up to 15 Android and 15 iOS builds. Is low priority. It also includes 60 minutes of CI/CD workflows. Previously 30 builds/month (up to 15 iOS), 1,000 MAU for EAS Update, 100,000 hosting requests, 1M CPU-ms, 1 GB hosting storage, and no credit card required.
reduced Microsoft Founders Hub discovered 2026-08-28 Cloud IaaS
The page states up to $150,000 in credits are available.
reduced Grafana k6 Cloud discovered 2026-08-28 Testing
The free tier no longer offers 500 VUh. It now offers limited usage of all Grafana Cloud services, with limits of 10k active series per month for metrics, and 50 GB ingested per month for logs, traces, and profiles.
reduced openobserve.ai discovered 2026-08-28 Logging
The free tier now offers 50 GB/day instead of 200 GB/month.
new Wraps discovered 2026-08-28 Email
The free tier now includes a dashboard and AI template editor, 5K tracked events, 1 workflow, and unlimited contacts.
new Pareto Security discovered 2026-08-28 Security
A free 'Starter' plan is available for up to 5 devices. It's presented as a general free offering rather than a specific startup program.
new Grafana Loki discovered 2026-08-28 Logging
The page details a free tier of Grafana Cloud Logs offering up to 50GB of logs. The page now highlights Grafana Cloud as the easiest way to get started, with a free tier.
new Directus discovered 2026-08-28 Headless CMS
The free tier information has been updated. While self-hosting remains free, the Open Innovation Grant now provides a free option for organizations under $5M revenue. The cloud free tier has been replaced with a $99/mo cloud hosting option for Grant recipients.
restructured InfluxDB Cloud discovered 2026-08-28 Databases
The free tier details have changed. A free tier exists with Cloud Serverless, it now offers a $250 free credit and usage-based pricing ($0.0025/MB written, $0.012 per 100 query executions, $0.002/GB-hour storage, $0.09/GB transferred out). There is also a free open-source option, InfluxDB 3 Core, with no license required.
restructured Stripe Atlas discovered 2026-08-28 Startup Programs
The page no longer lists specific partner perks ($5K AWS credits, $5K DigitalOcean credits, 1yr GitHub) and instead states over $50,000 in partner discounts, including Google, Xero and OAI. It states a $500 one-time setup fee and a $100 annual fee after the first year. The Stripe credit is stated at $2,500 in both states and is unchanged.
restructured GitHub Copilot discovered 2026-08-28 AI Coding
Pro, Pro+, and Copilot Student plans were paused for new signups. The free tier still exists with 2,000 completions/month and access to Haiku 4.5, GPT-5 mini, and more. Pro is now $10/month with unlimited code completion and access to Claude Code and Codex. Pro+ is $39/month with access to premium models including Opus. Max is a new tier at $100/month. Business is $19/user/month and Enterprise is $39/user/month.
restructured Airtable discovered 2026-08-28 Productivity & Notes
The free plan still exists. The details have changed. The page states the free plan is for individual users, very small teams, or those with lightweight needs. It also mentions paid plans start at $20/user/month.

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