CockroachDB stopped offering its free Basic plan (50 million RUs and 10 GiB of storage free per month) to new deployments on 2026-09-15, when it moved new clusters to Cockroach Continuum pricing. New Cloud organizations now get a 30-day free trial with $400 in credit. Clusters created before 2026-09-15 stay on their existing plans during their current term. Source ↗
Groq replaced Qwen3.6 27B (qwen/qwen3.6-27b) with its successor, Qwen3.8 27B (qwen/qwen3.8-27b), on its free and developer plans on September 14, 2026, and shut qwen/qwen3.6-27b down that day; code that calls it needs the new model ID. Source ↗
Postman's Free plan no longer includes cloud performance testing. Its pricing table gave Free "Performance testing (unlimited runs)" on the Internet Archive's capture of 2026-08-20, cloud runs at $0.04 per virtual-user hour on 2026-09-09, and marks cloud performance testing unavailable on Free from the capture of 2026-09-18; local performance testing stays unlimited. In the same window the table stopped calling Free's mock servers unlimited, and it states no limit for them. Source ↗
On 2026-09-18 Google stopped renewing every remaining standalone Google Developer Program Premium subscription, Workspace accounts included. Monthly subscribers keep Premium benefits until 2026-10-18 and annual subscribers until 2027-09-18; their membership then returns to the standard tier. Google recommends AI Pro or AI Ultra for consumers, and Gemini Enterprise for enterprises. Source ↗
Since 2026-09-18 Google serves the Gemini 2.5 models only to users who have used them before, and points new projects to 3.5 Flash-Lite or 3.8 Flash. Source ↗
Effective date unknown (6)
6 changes recorded during September 14–20, 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 September 14–20, 2026.
deprecatedPagure.iodiscovered 2026-09-15 · effective date unknownSource Control
Pagure.io has been sunset and is now a read-only archive. It is no longer a functional service. Unconfirmed. We could not check this change against an archived copy of Pagure.io's page, so it does not count toward the rating.Source ↗
reducedOthor AIdiscovered 2026-09-15 · effective date unknownAI / ML
The free plan now includes 2 data sources and 20 requests/day, down from 5 data sources and unlimited analytics. Unconfirmed. We could not check this change against an archived copy of Othor AI's page, so it does not count toward the rating.Source ↗
reducedQonversiondiscovered 2026-09-19 · effective date unknownPayments
The free tier limit has been reduced from $10k to $7k monthly tracked revenue. Unconfirmed. We could not check this change against an archived copy of Qonversion's page, so it does not count toward the rating.Source ↗
reducedQRtracerdiscovered 2026-09-19 · effective date unknownStorage
The free tier now includes a limit of 3 dynamic codes and 14 days of full Analytics & QR Studio access. After that, a Pro subscription is required for those features. Unconfirmed. We could not check this change against an archived copy of QRtracer's page, so it does not count toward the rating.Source ↗
reducedpagecrawl.iodiscovered 2026-09-20 · effective date unknownMonitoring
The free tier now has limits of 6 pages, up to 220 checks, and a check frequency of up to 60 minutes. Previously up to 6 monitors with 60-minute interval checks. Unconfirmed. We could not check this change against an archived copy of pagecrawl.io's page, so it does not count toward the rating.Source ↗
increasedCanvadiscovered 2026-09-16 · effective date unknownDesign
The free tier now includes 4.7M+ photos, videos, graphics, and audio, 1.6M+ templates, and 1 Brand Kit (3 colors only). It also includes access to Affinity and up to 20 Standard or Premium AI uses. Unconfirmed. We could not check this change against an archived copy of Canva's page, so it does not count toward the rating.Source ↗