This Week in Developer Pricing

Google quietly slashed Gemini API free tier rate limits by 50-80% in late 2025. Gemini 2.5 Flash went from ~250 requests/day to 20-50. Pro model free tier removed entirely. A Google PM admitted generous limits were only supposed to be available for a single weekend

GitHub launched Copilot Free tier — AI code completion available to all GitHub users at no cost. 2,000 completions and 50 chat messages per month included

Google launched Gemini Code Assist free tier for individual developers. Includes code completions, chat, and multi-file editing powered by Gemini 2.5 Pro. Available in VS Code, JetBrains, and Cloud Shell

Gruntwork launches free tier for Terragrunt Scale IaC orchestration platform, positioned as HCP Terraform free tier alternative ahead of HashiCorp March 31, 2026 EOL. Includes GitOps, drift detection, and module update automation