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On September 25, 2026, Storj stopped accepting STORJ token deposits for its service bills and switched to USDC. Accounts that deposit USDC are exempt from the $5 minimum monthly fee, as STORJ payers had been. The 10% discount on STORJ deposits ended the same day. Source ↗
reducedQRtracerdiscovered 2026-09-19 · effective date unknownmedium
The free tier now includes a limit of 3 dynamic codes and 14 days of full Analytics & QR Studio access. After that, a Pro subscription is required for those features. Unconfirmed. We could not check this change against an archived copy of QRtracer's page, so it does not count toward the rating.Source ↗
reducedtransfernowdiscovered 2026-08-28 · effective date unknownmedium
The free tier now has a 5 GB transfer limit and files are available for 7 days. There are now paid tiers with increased limits and features. Unconfirmed. We could not check this change against an archived copy of transfernow's page, so it does not count toward the rating.Source ↗
reducedpackagecloud.iodiscovered 2026-08-28 · effective date unknownmedium
The free tier is now limited to specific repositories (Maven, Python, Helm, Alpine). Unconfirmed. We could not check this change against an archived copy of packagecloud.io's page, so it does not count toward the rating.Source ↗
Uploadcare raised its Free plan's max file size from 10 MB to 500 MB and added adaptive bitrate streaming, between the Internet Archive's copies of 2026-04-12 and 2026-05-17. The plan kept 1,000 operations per month and personal use only. Source ↗
On May 1, 2026 Backblaze raised B2 pay-as-you-go storage from $6 to $6.95 per TB a month and made Class B and Class C API calls free; they had been free for the first 2,500 a day per class and then charged per 1,000 calls. The first 10 GB of storage and free egress up to 3x average monthly storage did not change. Source ↗
reducedLibreQRdiscovered 2026-04-12 · effective date unknownlow
Now freemium with very limited free tier (0 AI QR, 2 saved) We hold no source for this record, so it does not set LibreQR's rating.
reducedKraken.iodiscovered 2026-04-12 · effective date unknownlow
Free tier changed to 100MB testing quota only We hold no source for this record, so it does not set Kraken.io's rating.
rebrandedOtixodiscovered 2026-04-12 · effective date unknownlow
Rebranded to We.Team We hold no source for this record, so it does not set Otixo's rating.
ImageEngine withdrew its free Developer Program (10 GB of monthly traffic, one image origin) between captures of 2026-02-17 and 2026-04-09, when it replaced its SaaS plans with self-hosted ImageEngine Kube. The programme's page now redirects to a 30-day free trial with no credit card required. Source ↗
MinIO marked its open-source repository "NO LONGER MAINTAINED" on 2026-02-12 and archived it on 2026-02-13, ending the AGPL community edition with no further bug fixes or security patches. Development continues in the commercially licensed MinIO AIStor. Community releases had been source-only since 2025-10-15, and the repository had been in maintenance mode since 2025-12-03. Source ↗
Between July 13 and August 3, 2025, ImageKit cut its Free plan's DAM storage from 5 GB to 3 GB and its media delivery bandwidth from 25 GB to 20 GB a month. Video processing units stayed at 500 a month. Source ↗
Storj introduced a $5 minimum monthly usage fee for all accounts, announced 2025-05-30 and effective 2025-07-01, leaving a 30-day trial where the free tier used to be. The pricing page, read 2026-08-27, offers '25GB free storage for 30 days' with 'no credit card required' and applies the minimum fee once the trial ends, except for accounts paying in STORJ token. Source ↗
We hold 14 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 55 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.
All 27 of the 55 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.