1 limit increased, 4 pricing restructures across 7 developer tool pricing changes

December 29, 2025–January 4, 2026

This Week in Developer Pricing

1 limit increased, 4 pricing restructures across 7 developer tool pricing changes

1 limit increased4 restructured

Biggest Losses (5)

restructured Docker Desktop Container Registry
Docker Desktop subscription prices increased 67-80% across all tiers. Personal $7→$11, Pro $9→$14, Team $15→$24, Business $24→$35 per user/month. Separate from Docker Hub registry pricing changes Source ↗
restructured Fly.io Cloud Hosting
Volume snapshots now billed — previously free automatic snapshots now cost $0.08/GB-month Source ↗
restructured Vercel Cloud Hosting
Pro plan moved to credit-based model ($20/mo credit pool), Hobby plan metrics renamed and restructured — bandwidth→Fast Data Transfer, serverless split into Active CPU + Provisioned Memory, Blob Storage and Image Transformations added Source ↗
restructured AWS Cloud IaaS
EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML GPU prices increased ~15% across regions. p5e.48xlarge went from $34.61 to $39.80/hr (US East) and $43.26 to $49.75/hr (US West N. California) Source ↗
restricted Atlassian Forge Developer Tools
Forge platform moved from free to consumption-based billing for compute and storage Source ↗

Bright Spots (2)

increased DigitalOcean Cloud IaaS
Droplets moved from hourly to per-second billing (with a minimum charge of 60 seconds or $0.01, whichever is higher) Source ↗
postponed GitHub Actions CI/CD
Self-hosted runner per-minute fee ($0.002/min) announced for March 2026 was postponed indefinitely after community backlash. Self-hosted runners remain free. Separately, hosted runner prices were reduced up to 39% (Jan 2026) Source ↗

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