This Week in Developer Pricing

Freshping shut down entirely. Free accounts disabled March 6, 2026. Paid plans expire at end of term. All data deleted 90 days later (~June 4, 2026). No replacement product offered by Freshworks

Free Community plan (1 GB/day, 1-day retention, 10 alerts) removed. Only 14-day free trial remains. Consumption-based pricing starts at $0.92/ingested GB/day

Gemini 2.0 Flash and 2.0 Flash-Lite models deprecated, scheduled for retirement. Free tier continues with Gemini 2.5 models. Developers on 2.0 must migrate

Xero retiring revenue-share model, moving to 5-tier connection+egress pricing. No more free API access for developers. Costs jumping from ~$0 to $17K+/year for some. Also banning API data use for AI/ML model training