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rebrandedCreate@Alibaba Clouddiscovered 2026-09-03 · effective date unknownmedium
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 ↗
restructuredOracle Clouddiscovered 2026-09-02 · effective date unknownmedium
The description of the Always Free tier has changed. The tier still exists, the specific VM details are different. Source ↗
reducedDocsdiscovered 2026-08-28 · effective date unknownmedium
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 ↗
Google added a Google AI Ultra plan at $99.99 a month with $40 a month in Google Cloud credits, and cut the top AI Ultra plan from $249.99 to $199.99 a month; the top plan keeps $100 a month in credits. Source ↗
reducedfilebase.comdiscovered 2026-04-13 · effective date unknownlow
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.
restructuredZoho Meetingdiscovered 2026-04-13 · effective date unknownlow
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.
rebrandedClever Clouddiscovered 2026-04-13 · effective date unknownlow
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.
rebrandedAlibaba Cloud Startupsdiscovered 2026-04-13 · effective date unknownlow
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.
DigitalOcean's new-account credit fell from $200 for 60 days to $5 for 90 days. Its pricing page changed between the Internet Archive's 2026-04-05 and 2026-04-07 captures. The $200 offer page (try.digitalocean.com/freetrialoffer/) was still up on 2026-05-15 and now redirects to the homepage. Source ↗
OVHcloud raised prices on its VPS 2026 range from 2026-04-01. Its announcement of 2026-03-05 lists euro list prices up 36-49%, with VPS-1 from €4.49 to €6.49 a month and VPS-4 from €24.99 to €36.99; existing services moved at the end of their current term. New orders had moved already: the US page's 12-month price for VPS-1 went from $4.20 to $6.46 between captures of 2026-02-23 and 2026-03-04. 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 ↗
Standalone Google Developer Program Premium stopped renewing on personal (@gmail.com) accounts: annual plans after 2026-03-30, monthly plans after 2026-06-30. Google had moved its developer benefits into Google AI Pro and AI Ultra on 2026-01-27. Premium on Workspace accounts did not change. 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 ↗
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 ↗
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 ↗
Hatch startup program expanded to up to $100K compute credits plus up to 3 months free H100 GPU access for AI/ML startups Source ↗
We hold 7 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.
At-Risk Vendors
All 1 of the 12 vendors we list in this category that carry one. A vendor is named here for as long as a demotion is in force against it: a one-off pricing event, recorded against a source we cite, whose date falls in the last 180 days — or a standing condition, also cited, such as a free tier withdrawn or a product retired, which does not expire with time. A demotion can lift with nothing about the vendor having changed, and that happens on the day the vendor's newest qualifying event passes 180 days.
All 3 of the 12 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.