Pricing trends for Design: 10 tracked pricing changes across 95 vendors. Direction: prices rising.

Design Pricing Trends

Pricing direction: ↑ Prices rising

95
Vendors
2%
of All Tracked Changes
1
At-Risk Vendors
increased 3 deprecated 2 rebranded 2 reduced 2 removed 1

Announced, not yet in effect

What this section prints is decided by the calendar, not by anything the vendor did. One record here carries a date after 2026-11-14. The vendor has announced it and it has not taken effect, so it is not part of the history below. On its own date a record here joins the Pricing Change Timeline, below.

Announced deprecated remove.bg effective 2026-12-01 high
On December 1, 2026, at 9:00 CET, remove.bg's self-service API stops accepting requests, and its standalone website and accounts close; unused pay-as-you-go credits expire the same day. remove.bg moves its background removal to Canva, and its API to Leonardo.Ai's API, also part of Canva. Enterprise API contracts continue as normal. Source ↗

Pricing Change Timeline

Every record we hold is listed here, newest first. A record is never removed from this list, so a vendor named here stays named here whatever its verdict does afterwards.

removed lensdump.com effective 2026-10-10 high
Lensdump's Terms of Service, effective 10 October 2026, create every new account on a paid plan; the Free plan cannot be selected at sign-up and stays only with accounts that existed before paid plans were introduced. Source ↗
increased Canva discovered 2026-09-16 · effective date unknown low
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 ↗
increased userforge.com discovered 2026-08-28 · effective date unknown medium
The free tier now allows unlimited personas and pages, with a limit of 3 persona reviews per month and 10 context sources. Previously 3 personas and 2 collaborators. Unconfirmed. We could not check this change against an archived copy of userforge.com's page, so it does not count toward the rating. Source ↗
increased tabler-icons.io discovered 2026-08-28 · effective date unknown low
While a free tier still exists, the number of icons has increased from 5,800 to 6184. There are also options to purchase bundles and support the project with optional payments. Unconfirmed. We could not check this change against an archived copy of tabler-icons.io's page, so it does not count toward the rating. Source ↗
rebranded HeroUI discovered 2026-04-12 · effective date unknown low
Rebranded to HeroUI, URL changed to heroui.com We hold no source for this record, so it does not set HeroUI's rating.
rebranded Umso discovered 2026-04-12 · effective date unknown low
Acquired by Umso, URL changed to umso.com We hold no source for this record, so it does not set Umso's rating.
reduced Whimsical discovered 2026-04-12 · effective date unknown low
Free tier reduced from 4 to 3 team boards We hold no source for this record, so it does not set Whimsical's rating.
reduced Webstudio effective 2025-11-14 medium
By November 14, 2025, Webstudio's free Cloud plan no longer included a custom domain or 10,000 page views a month; free projects publish to a wstd.io subdomain. Its free Hobby plan offered 1 custom domain and 10,000 page views a month on October 14, 2025. Asset storage on the free plan fell from 2 GB to 250 MB between September 3 and October 14, 2025. Source ↗
deprecated Backlight effective 2025-06-01 low
Backlight.dev, a design-system platform, shut down on 2025-06-01. A banner announcing the shutdown went up between 2025-03-16 and 2025-03-25. Source ↗

We hold 18 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 95 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 product retired or a free tier withdrawn and not restored, 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.

Stable Picks

All 29 of the 95 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.

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