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increasedHasuradiscovered 2026-09-19 · effective date unknownlow
The free tier (DDN Free) still exists. The page details many more features included in the free tier than were originally listed, such as autoscaling, a global edge network, and various connectors. Source ↗
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 ↗
model changeChromadiscovered 2026-09-07 · effective date unknownhigh
The free tier has changed. The current pricing page shows a Starter plan with $5 in free credits and usage-based pricing for writes, storage, and queries. Source ↗
reducedGeldiscovered 2026-09-07 · effective date unknownmedium
increasedPrisma Acceleratediscovered 2026-09-05 · effective date unknownmedium
The free tier now offers 200,000 operations/month for Prisma Postgres, not 100,000 operations/month. The free tier also includes 1M requests/month for Prisma Compute, 360 GB-hours memory, 4 active vCPU-hours, and 10 GB outbound bandwidth. Source ↗
removedMomentodiscovered 2026-09-05 · effective date unknownhigh
Momento Cache Flex starts at $13 per GB-month. Pub/sub Topics are priced at $1 per 1M operations. Data transfer is $0.01 per GB for Valkey Router and $0.05/GiB for ingress/egress. Source ↗
restructuredTurbopufferdiscovered 2026-09-03 · effective date unknownhigh
The vendor now has a $16/month minimum usage requirement for the 'scale' tier, effectively removing the truly pay-as-you-go option. Source ↗
reducedCloudflare KVdiscovered 2026-09-02 · effective date unknownmedium
The free tier still exists. The limits are daily instead of monthly. Previously limit remains at 1 GB. Source ↗
increasedUpstash Vectordiscovered 2026-09-02 · effective date unknownhigh
The free tier now has a maximum vector capacity of 200 Million vectors, up from 10K. Source ↗
reducedcodehooks.iodiscovered 2026-08-28 · effective date unknownhigh
The free tier now has significantly reduced API call limits (1/sec, 500/day). Previously 60/minute. Source ↗
The deal now has specific eligibility criteria (less than $1.5M in revenue and funding, new to ScaleGrid). The discount is now tiered: 50% off for 12 months on BYOC plans (medium or larger) and 25% off dedicated hosting (medium or larger). Small plans get 50% off BYOC and 25% off dedicated for 3 months. Previously 'up to $50,000 for a year with 50% off'. Source ↗
Appwrite began deleting Free projects that stay paused for 90 days, with all their resources. Owners get email alerts before anything is deleted. Source ↗
Weaviate Cloud replaced its 14-day sandbox trial with an always-free cluster (100,000 objects, 1 GB memory, 10 GB disk, 1 collection), announced on 2026-06-17: "The Weaviate Cloud managed database is now genuinely free, without a credit card or time expiration." Source ↗
Appwrite began enforcing Realtime limits on 2026-04-30, with the Free plan at 2 million messages a month, down from the 3 million its pricing page had listed, and a new 256 KB maximum message size. It announced the enforcement on 2026-03-23. Source ↗
increasedHasuradiscovered 2026-04-19 · effective date unknownhigh
Hasura DDN Free plan replaced the legacy Hasura Cloud free tier (60 req/min, 1 GB passthrough). Free tier now offers unlimited API requests, unlimited concurrent users, and unlimited models at any scale. Restrictions: 1 supergraph developer and 15-minute observability retention. Source ↗
increasedPrisma Acceleratediscovered 2026-04-12 · effective date unknownlow
Free tier operations increased from 60,000 to 100,000/month. Max response size changed from 5 MB to unlimited. Source ↗
reducedSurrealDB Clouddiscovered 2026-04-12 · effective date unknownlow
Free tier memory reduced from 1 GB to 512 MB Source ↗
reducedcodehooks.iodiscovered 2026-04-12 · effective date unknownmedium
Storage reduced from 5GB to 150MB database + 1GB file storage. Developer seats reduced from 2 to 1. Source ↗
increasedSeaTablediscovered 2026-04-12 · effective date unknownlow
Free tier row limit increased from 2,000 to 10,000 Source ↗
Aurora PostgreSQL Serverless added to AWS Free Tier — managed PostgreSQL-compatible database now available at no cost with up to 4 ACUs per cluster and 1 GB storage. Part of AWS Free Plan (6 months + credits) Source ↗
Google announced the sunset of Firebase Studio (formerly Project IDX) on 2026-03-19. New workspaces and signups stopped on 2026-06-22, and Firebase Studio shuts down on 2027-03-22, when remaining data is deleted. Other Firebase products are not affected. Source ↗
Xata retired Xata Lite, its original serverless platform with a 15 GB free plan, on 2026-02-28. It announced the retirement and closed Lite sign-ups by 2025-12-08. Source ↗
Appwrite began pausing Free projects after 7 consecutive days with no development activity. Its pricing page had said Free projects were "Never paused" until January 2026, and users reported pauses from 2026-03-09. Source ↗
Appwrite cut its Free plan from five functions per project to two. Projects that already had more keep them, but cannot create new functions until they are under the limit. Source ↗
Neon moved its paid Launch and Scale plans to usage-based pricing with a $5 monthly minimum. The Free plan went from 0.5 GB of storage and 191.9 compute hours per account to 0.5 GB and 50 CU-hours per project, across up to 10 projects. Source ↗
Appwrite limited its Free plan to two projects per organization, down from unlimited. It announced the limit on 2025-07-23, and organizations with more projects kept them until 2025-09-01. Source ↗
deprecatedFaunaeffective 2025-05-30high
Fauna turned off its hosted database service on 2025-05-30, as announced on 2025-03-19, and said all accounts and their data would be permanently deleted. It had open-sourced the core database under the Apache 2.0 license on 2025-04-29. Source ↗
PlanetScale retired its free Hobby plan on 2024-04-08, after stopping new Hobby databases on 2024-03-06. Hobby databases that were not upgraded were put to sleep with their data kept. The cheapest plan became Scaler Pro at $39 a month with 10 GB of storage. Source ↗
Redis switched from BSD license to dual SSPL/RSALv2 license, effectively ending open-source status. Triggered creation of Valkey fork by Linux Foundation. Redis Cloud pricing unchanged but community trust impacted Source ↗
We hold 13 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 4 of the 45 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 24 of the 45 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.