Developer Pricing: May 11–17, 2026

1 free tier removed, 2 products deprecated, 1 pricing restructure across 5 developer tool pricing changes

Biggest Losses (5)

removed fivenines.io Monitoring

fivenines.io removed its Free plan (5 monitors, 1 team member, 1 month of data retention) between the archived copies of its site from 2026-05-13 and 2026-05-15. Paid plans now start at €19 a month, with a 14-day free trial. Source ↗

deprecated OpenAI AI / ML

dall-e-2 and dall-e-3 were removed from the OpenAI API on 2026-05-12. OpenAI names gpt-image-2, gpt-image-1 or gpt-image-1-mini as substitutes, and gpt-image-1 itself shuts down on 2026-10-23. Source ↗

deprecated OpenAI AI / ML

The Realtime API beta was removed on 2026-05-12; OpenAI's generally available Realtime API replaces it. Source ↗

restructured Cloudflare for Startups Startup Perks

Cloudflare replaced its four startup tiers with three. In the Internet Archive's capture of 2026-05-11, cloudflare.com/forstartups offered $5K, $25K, $100K and $250K tiers. In the capture of 2026-05-12, cloudflare.com/startups offers Tier 3 at $10k (bootstrapped or self-funded, under $1M raised), Tier 2 at $100k ($1M+ raised, funded by an affiliated partner) and Tier 1 at $350k ($5M+ raised, funded by an affiliated partner), to startups founded within the last 10 years whose most recent round was within the last 12 months. Source ↗

restricted DigitalOcean Startup Programs

As of 2026-05-13, DigitalOcean's startup credits exclude Dedicated and Serverless Inference, third-party AI models, Paperspace Machines, Cloudways and Bare Metal GPUs as well as GPU Droplets and H100 GPU products, the two exclusions its page stated before. The page also now puts the monthly credit limit at $10,000; its April capture mentioned a monthly limit without an amount. Source ↗

Effective date unknown (1)

1 change recorded during May 11–17, 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 May 11–17, 2026. Where archived copies of the vendor's page bracket a change, it is dated by the first copy that shows the new terms.

increased Uploadcare effective between 2026-04-12 and 2026-05-17 Storage

The free tier now includes 1,000 operations per month and a 500 MB max file size, instead of 100 MB. It also includes features like uploading widget, basic image transformations, and adaptive bitrate streaming. Source ↗

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