Cloud IaaS Pricing Trends

The program is now called the AI Catalyst Program, not Create@Alibaba Cloud. It offers up to $120k in cloud credits and up to 2B free tokens on Model Studio. It also includes AI expert consultation, POC coupons, access to Alibaba Cloud Academy, and networking opportunities. Source ↗

The program now offers up to $150,000 in credits. Source ↗

The description of the Always Free tier has changed. The tier still exists, the specific VM details are different. Source ↗

The page states up to $150,000 in credits are available. Source ↗

The free tier now offers 5GB of storage. No longer mentions the bundled Zoho Office Suite (Writer, Sheets & Show). Previously a 1GB upload limit. Source ↗

Rebranded to Zoho Billing, free tier discontinued — paid-only with 14-day trial We hold no source for this record, so it does not set Zoho Subscriptions's rating.

Free storage reduced from 5 GB to 1 GB, now IPFS-focused We hold no source for this record, so it does not set filebase.com's rating.

Participants increased 3→100 but 60-minute duration limit added We hold no source for this record, so it does not set Zoho Meeting's rating.

Program renamed to UP, offers up to €10K credits We hold no source for this record, so it does not set Clever Cloud's rating.

Renamed to AI Catalyst Program, focus shifted to AI We hold no source for this record, so it does not set Alibaba Cloud Startups's rating.

OVHcloud VPS prices increased dramatically April 1, 2026. VPS Starter (VPS-1) from $4.90 to $7.60/mo (+55%), VPS Essential (VPS-2) similarly increased, VPS Comfort (VPS-4) from $26.00 to $43.50/mo (+67%). Root cause: AI-driven DRAM prices up 250-300% and NVMe SSD costs surging. Affects all new and existing VPS customers. Source ↗

OVHcloud Public Cloud, Private Cloud, and Bare Metal prices increased 9-11% for deployments made 2026-2028. Pre-2025 deployments see smaller 2-6% increase depending on equipment age. IPv4 pricing also increased. Driven by same DRAM/NVMe cost surge as VPS increases. Source ↗

Google Developer Program annual subscription ending March 30. Replaced by Google AI Pro ($10/mo) and AI Ultra ($100/mo) tiers with bundled cloud credits and AI model access. Source ↗

Per-user monthly Azure credits eliminated, replaced with organization-level bulk Azure credits. Visual Studio license in all benefit tiers now exclusively VS Enterprise IDE Source ↗

Queues added to Workers free plan — message queuing now free Source ↗

Startup program revamped to 4 tiers with up to $250,000 in credits (previously lower). Tiers: Bootstrapped $5K, Up-and-Coming $25K, Seed-Funded $100K, High Growth $250K. Credits expire within 1 year Source ↗

SQLite storage billing began for Durable Objects — previously free during beta Source ↗

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 ↗

Google for Startups Cloud Program now offers up to $350K GCP credits for AI-first startups, plus $10K Anthropic (Claude) partner credits via Model Garden Source ↗

20% price cut on Basic Droplets (cheapest now $4/mo from $5/mo). Per-second billing introduced (minimum 60 seconds or $0.01). Functions free tier increased to 25,000 GiB-seconds/mo Source ↗

Hatch startup program expanded to up to $100K compute credits plus up to 3 months free H100 GPU access for AI/ML startups Source ↗