2 products deprecated, 3 limits reduced across 5 developer tool pricing changes

June 29–July 5, 2026

This Week in Developer Pricing

2 products deprecated, 3 limits reduced across 5 developer tool pricing changes

3 limits reduced2 deprecated1 effective date unknown

Biggest Losses (5)

deprecated Google Tenor API Media
Google Tenor API shut down on June 30, 2026, and new API key sign-ups stopped on January 13, 2026. Only the API ended: Tenor.com, the GIF Keyboard apps and Gboard still serve Tenor GIFs. Developers who used the API need another GIF API. Source ↗
reduced Appwrite Cloud Databases
Appwrite began deleting Free projects that stay paused for 90 days, with all their resources. Owners get email alerts before anything is deleted. Source ↗
deprecated AWS Cloud Hosting
Fargate platform version 1.3.0 reached end of support on June 30, 2026. AWS blocked new tasks and services on it from June 15 and said it would terminate the tasks still running on it on June 30. Platform version 1.4.0 replaces it. Source ↗
reduced Mercury Perks Startup Programs
Mercury paused its Google Cloud perk. mercury.com/perks/google-cloud offered "Google Cloud and Firebase costs covered up to $200,000 USD over 2 years" in the Internet Archive's capture of 2026-02-10 and said "Offer temporarily unavailable. New offer coming later this year" in the capture of 2026-07-02, as it does today. Source ↗
reduced Cloudflare for Startups Startup Perks
Cloudflare replaced its startup programme's single Workers AI cap with caps by tier. The Internet Archive's capture of cloudflare.com/startups on 2026-07-01 says Workers AI is "Covered up to a $50,000 cap"; the capture of 2026-07-02 says "Covered up to a $2,500 cap for Tier 3, $25,000 for Tier 2, and $50,000 for Tier 1". Source ↗

Effective date unknown (1)

1 change recorded during June 29–5, 2026 has no known effective date. It is dated the day we recorded it, not the day its terms took effect, so it is not counted as a change that took effect during June 29–5, 2026. Where archived copies of the vendor's page bracket a change, it is dated by the first copy that shows the new terms.

restructured Turbopuffer effective between 2026-06-18 and 2026-06-30 Databases
Turbopuffer cut the Launch plan's monthly minimum from $64 to $16. Its changelog dates the cut to June 2026, and the Internet Archive's copy of 2026-06-18 still shows $64. Scale's minimum stays $256 a month. Source ↗

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