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Pricing Change Timeline
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On November 5, 2026, Unkey's pricing page raised the Free API plan's log retention from 1 day to 7 days and its audit log retention from 3 days to 30 days. Pro went from 7 and 14 days to 90 days of each. Unkey's commit is titled "Fix API Management log retention on the pricing page" and reads: "Free is 7 days of logs and 30 days of audit logs (was 1 / 3 days)." Keys, requests and the $0 price are unchanged. Source ↗
On 2026-08-14 X announced the end of its paid legacy Pro plans (monthly and annual). Each Pro subscription ended at the end of the subscriber's billing cycle after September 1, 2026 and moved to Pay-Per-Use. Source ↗
reducedZuplodiscovered 2026-08-28 · effective date unknownhigh
The free tier now has a limit of 100K requests/month, not 1M. The free tier also does not include custom domains. Unconfirmed. We could not check this change against an archived copy of Zuplo's page, so it does not count toward the rating.Source ↗
restructuredTykdiscovered 2026-08-28 · effective date unknownhigh
The free tier information has been updated. An open-source option is still mentioned, the page now prominently features a 48-hour free trial of Tyk Cloud and three paid tiers: Core, Professional, and Enterprise. Unconfirmed. We could not check this change against an archived copy of Tyk's page, so it does not count toward the rating.Source ↗
On 2026-05-21 X announced the end of its paid legacy Basic plans (monthly and annual). Each Basic subscription ended at the end of the subscriber's billing cycle after June 1, 2026 and moved to Pay-Per-Use. Opting out meant losing API access. Source ↗
X API per-request pricing overhaul: Owned Reads now $0.001/request; writes raised to $0.015/post (from ~$0.01); URL-containing posts now $0.20/post (massive increase). Following, likes, and quote-posts via API removed from all self-serve tiers. Announced on X Developer Community. Source ↗
Xero retired its revenue-share model on 2 March 2026 for five plans priced by connections and data egress. The free Starter plan allows up to 5 connected organisations; Core costs AUD 35 a month for up to 50. Data from Xero's APIs may not be used to train AI or machine-learning models Source ↗
X replaced its Legacy Free API tier with pay-per-use pricing, announced 2026-02-06. Recently active free-tier users moved to pay-per-use with a one-time $10 voucher. Only apps X classifies as Public Utility Apps keep free scaled access. Source ↗
We hold 5 more records filed under this category that are not counted above: entries the vendor has since reversed, our own index housekeeping, and corrections to earlier entries of our own. Read the full change log.
Stable Picks
All 1 of the 6 vendors we list in this category that qualify, not a selection of them. A vendor is named here for as long as no demotion is in force against it and we hold no change record for it dated in the last 90 days — any record, including ones the timeline above does not count. A vendor can join this section on a day we recorded nothing about it, when the later of those two clocks runs out: 90 days after its newest record, or the day the demotion against it lapses. It leaves on the day we file a new record, or the day we can no longer vouch for the terms we list.