1 free tier removed, 4 limits reduced, 1 limit increased across 6 developer tool pricing changes

April 6–12, 2026

This Week in Developer Pricing

1 free tier removed, 4 limits reduced, 1 limit increased across 6 developer tool pricing changes

1 free tier removed4 limits reduced1 limit increased37 effective date unknown

Biggest Losses (5)

removed ImageEngine Storage
ImageEngine withdrew its free Developer Program (10 GB of monthly traffic, one image origin) between captures of 2026-02-17 and 2026-04-09, when it replaced its SaaS plans with self-hosted ImageEngine Kube. The programme's page now redirects to a 30-day free trial with no credit card required. Source ↗
reduced DigitalOcean Cloud IaaS
DigitalOcean's new-account credit fell from $200 for 60 days to $5 for 90 days. Its pricing page changed between the Internet Archive's 2026-04-05 and 2026-04-07 captures. The $200 offer page (try.digitalocean.com/freetrialoffer/) was still up on 2026-05-15 and now redirects to the homepage. Source ↗
reduced Deno Deploy Cloud Hosting
Egress on the Free plan fell from 100 GB to 20 GB a month. Deno Deploy's pricing page changed between Common Crawl captures of 2026-03-15 and 2026-04-12. Source ↗
reduced Amazon Kiro (AWS Startups) Startup Perks
Kiro reopened its startup credits with smaller tiers and a lower funding ceiling. Its post of 2026-04-07 offers up to one year of Kiro Pro+ to "early-stage to Series A" startups in tiers of up to 2, 10 and 30 users, and says "Startups who currently participate in AWS Activate are not eligible". The 2025 offer covered startups up to Series B in tiers of up to 2, 50 and 100 users; Kiro had closed its applications in December 2025 "due to high demand". Source ↗
reduced CertKit Security
CertKit cut its Free plan from 3 certificates to 2 between 2026-03-21 and 2026-04-08. Source ↗

Bright Spots (1)

increased Hyperping Monitoring
Between 2026-03-08 and 2026-04-08, Hyperping's free plan went from 5 monitors checked every 3 minutes to 20 monitors checked every 5 minutes, with 1 basic status page and 1 seat. Paid plans did not change. Source ↗

Effective date unknown (37)

37 changes recorded during April 6–12, 2026 have no known effective date. Each is dated the day we recorded it, not the day its terms took effect, so none is counted as a change that took effect during April 6–12, 2026.

removed Augment Code discovered 2026-04-12 · effective date unknown AI Coding
Free tier removed. The lowest plan was then Indie at $20/month with 40K credits. As of 2026-10-16, Augment Code's plans are Standard at $20 a month flat and Business at $100 a month flat, each for up to 50 seats with no per-seat charge Source ↗
deprecated stathat.com discovered 2026-04-12 · effective date unknown Monitoring
Domain no longer resolves (DNS ENOTFOUND). We hold no source for this record, so it does not set stathat.com's rating.
reduced codehooks.io discovered 2026-04-12 · effective date unknown Databases
Storage reduced from 5GB to 150MB database + 1GB file storage. Developer seats reduced from 2 to 1. Source ↗
removed StackHawk discovered 2026-04-12 · effective date unknown Security
Free Developer plan removed, enterprise sales model now We hold no source for this record, so it does not set StackHawk's rating.
removed Seline discovered 2026-04-12 · effective date unknown Analytics
No permanent free plan We hold no source for this record, so it does not set Seline's rating.
deprecated Protectumus discovered 2026-04-12 · effective date unknown Security
Domain redirects to unrelated 2FA product (Protectimus) We hold no source for this record, so it does not set Protectumus's rating.
deprecated Userbird discovered 2026-04-12 · effective date unknown Analytics
Domain dead (DNS failure) We hold no source for this record, so it does not set Userbird's rating.
reduced SurrealDB Cloud discovered 2026-04-12 · effective date unknown Databases
Free tier memory reduced from 1 GB to 512 MB Source ↗
reduced UniRateAPI discovered 2026-04-12 · effective date unknown Dev Utilities
Free plan is not unlimited; limited to 200 requests/day Source ↗
reduced FeedBear discovered 2026-04-12 · effective date unknown Startup Perks
Early-stage deal ($29/mo) replaced by Startup plan at $49/mo Source ↗
reduced Whimsical discovered 2026-04-12 · effective date unknown Design
Free tier reduced from 4 to 3 team boards We hold no source for this record, so it does not set Whimsical's rating.
reduced MailerLite discovered 2026-04-12 · effective date unknown Email
Free tier reduced from 1,000 to 500 subscribers/month We hold no source for this record, so it does not set MailerLite's rating.
reduced Plunk discovered 2026-04-12 · effective date unknown Email
Free tier reduced from 3,000 to 1,000 emails/month We hold no source for this record, so it does not set Plunk's rating.
reduced Maileroo discovered 2026-04-12 · effective date unknown Email
Free tier reduced from 5,000 to 3,000 emails/month We hold no source for this record, so it does not set Maileroo's rating.
reduced Maildroppa discovered 2026-04-12 · effective date unknown Email
Emails changed from unlimited to 2,500/month We hold no source for this record, so it does not set Maildroppa's rating.
reduced Teleretro discovered 2026-04-12 · effective date unknown Project Management
Free plan is essentially a trial (3 retros, 14 days each) We hold no source for this record, so it does not set Teleretro's rating.
reduced LibreQR discovered 2026-04-12 · effective date unknown Storage
Now freemium with very limited free tier (0 AI QR, 2 saved) We hold no source for this record, so it does not set LibreQR's rating.
reduced Kraken.io discovered 2026-04-12 · effective date unknown Storage
Free tier changed to 100MB testing quota only We hold no source for this record, so it does not set Kraken.io's rating.
reduced UXtweak discovered 2026-04-12 · effective date unknown Analytics
Free plan no longer includes session recordings (requires paid Business plan) We hold no source for this record, so it does not set UXtweak's rating.
restructured Hotjar discovered 2026-04-12 · effective date unknown Analytics
Now part of Contentsquare, free plan changed to 20K sessions (was 2K pageviews/day) We hold no source for this record, so it does not set Hotjar's rating.
increased Socket.dev discovered 2026-04-12 · effective date unknown Security
Private repo free tier expanded from 1 repo to unlimited repos with 1,000 scans/month and up to 5 members Source ↗
increased Prisma Accelerate discovered 2026-04-12 · effective date unknown Databases
Free tier operations increased from 60,000 to 100,000/month. Max response size changed from 5 MB to unlimited. Source ↗
increased SeaTable discovered 2026-04-12 · effective date unknown Databases
Free tier row limit increased from 2,000 to 10,000 Source ↗
increased economize.cloud discovered 2026-04-12 · effective date unknown Monitoring
Free tier cloud spend limit increased from $5,000/month GCP-only to $100,000/month across all cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) Source ↗
increased Renamer.ai discovered 2026-04-12 · effective date unknown Dev Utilities
Free Starter Plan increased from 15 to 25 files/month Source ↗
increased Mailtrap discovered 2026-04-12 · effective date unknown Email
Free tier increased from 3,500 to 4,000 emails/month We hold no source for this record, so it does not set Mailtrap's rating.
increased Tailscale discovered 2026-04-12 · effective date unknown Security
Free tier expanded: 3→6 users, 100→unlimited devices We hold no source for this record, so it does not set Tailscale's rating.
increased FullStory discovered 2026-04-12 · effective date unknown Analytics
Free tier increased from 1,000 to 30,000 sessions/month, retention 1→12 months We hold no source for this record, so it does not set FullStory's rating.
increased Smartlook discovered 2026-04-12 · effective date unknown Analytics
Free tier increased from 1,500 to 3,000 sessions/month. Note: reaching End of Sale May 2026 We hold no source for this record, so it does not set Smartlook's rating.
rebranded HeroUI discovered 2026-04-12 · effective date unknown Design
Rebranded to HeroUI, URL changed to heroui.com We hold no source for this record, so it does not set HeroUI's rating.
rebranded Umso discovered 2026-04-12 · effective date unknown Design
Acquired by Umso, URL changed to umso.com We hold no source for this record, so it does not set Umso's rating.
rebranded addy.io discovered 2026-04-12 · effective date unknown Email
Rebranded to addy.io We hold no source for this record, so it does not set addy.io's rating.
rebranded Bump Email discovered 2026-04-12 · effective date unknown Email
Rebranded to Alias.email We hold no source for this record, so it does not set Bump Email's rating.
rebranded PyUp discovered 2026-04-12 · effective date unknown Security
Rebranded to Safety (getsafety.com) We hold no source for this record, so it does not set PyUp's rating.
rebranded Otixo discovered 2026-04-12 · effective date unknown Storage
Rebranded to We.Team We hold no source for this record, so it does not set Otixo's rating.
rebranded Fivetran Activations discovered 2026-04-12 · effective date unknown Analytics
Acquired by Fivetran, now Fivetran Activations We hold no source for this record, so it does not set Fivetran Activations's rating.
rebranded UsabilityHub discovered 2026-04-12 · effective date unknown Analytics
Rebranded to Lyssna We hold no source for this record, so it does not set UsabilityHub's rating.

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