Algolia replaced its Build plan with a Free plan between the pricing-page captures of 2026-08-10 and 2026-08-13; its Free Plan terms carry a new version from 2026-08-12. The free plan went from 1M records to 50K, and from 10K to 5K recommendation requests and 5K crawls a month; search requests stay at 10K a month. Source ↗
At 16:00 UTC on 2026-08-16, DeepSeek introduced peak and off-peak pricing, with off-peak at half the peak rate. V4 Flash and V4 Pro output prices rose, with Flash from $0.28 to $1.32 at peak and Pro from $0.87 to $3.96 at peak. Source ↗
Mistral's free API moved to a $10 monthly allowance shared across Studio, the API and Vibe Code; when it is used up, usage can stop unless pay-as-you-go is on. Before, the docs described a free API tier with restrictive rate limits, and the Free plan listed no API credit. Source ↗
Groq shut down Llama 3.1 8B and Llama 3.3 70B on its free and developer plans. On the free plan Llama 3.1 8B had allowed 14,400 requests and 500,000 tokens a day; the free chat models left (gpt-oss-120b, gpt-oss-20b and a Qwen 27B model) allow 1,000 requests and 200,000 tokens a day each. Source ↗
Composio's new pricing, for signups on or after 2026-08-15, raised the free plan from 20,000 tool calls a month (triggers counted inside them) to 100,000 tool calls and a separate 50,000 triggers a month, with 3 team members. Accounts from before 2026-08-15 keep the old plan through 2026-12-31. Source ↗