Cloud Service Pricing Changes (2026)
Track pricing changes across 69+ cloud services. Chrome-verified updates when services raise prices, drop free tiers, or change plans.
Stay informed about pricing changes across the cloud services ecosystem. Every change below has been Chrome-verified by the auxiliar.ai team.
SendGrid: Free tier removed
SendGrid eliminated its permanent free tier. The only free option is now a 60-day trial with a 100 emails/day cap. Minimum paid plan is Essentials at $19.95/month for 50,000 emails. This affects all new signups — existing free tier users were migrated.
Neon: Prices dropped 15-25% after Databricks acquisition
Following the Databricks acquisition, Neon reduced compute pricing by 15-25% across all tiers. The free tier remains at 0.5 GB storage and 100 CU-hours/month. Launch tier pricing dropped to approximately $15/month for typical usage.
Fly.io: Free allowance removed
Fly.io eliminated its free resource allowance (previously included 3 shared-cpu-1x VMs and 160 GB bandwidth). New accounts get a 2-hour trial only. Hobby plan starts at $5/month.
Lemon Squeezy: Acquired by Stripe
Stripe completed the acquisition of Lemon Squeezy. The service continues to operate independently for now, but the long-term product roadmap is uncertain. Existing merchants are unaffected in the short term.
PlanetScale: Free tier eliminated, PS-5 plan added
PlanetScale removed its free Hobby plan entirely. The new minimum is the PS-5 plan at $5/month with 1 GB storage and 1 billion row reads. The PS-10 plan at $10/month offers 5 GB storage.
Clerk: Pricing model changed to MRU
Clerk switched from MAU (Monthly Active Users) to MRU (Monthly Retained Users) pricing. Free tier now includes 50,000 MRU instead of the previous 10,000 MAU, but MRU counts all users who have signed up, not just active ones.
Vercel: Fluid compute replaces serverless functions
Vercel introduced Fluid compute as the default for all new projects, replacing traditional serverless functions. Pricing remains on the Pro plan at $20/month per seat, but compute costs are now usage-based with the $20 credit applied first.
How we track pricing changes
Every service on auxiliar.ai is Chrome-verified: we load the actual pricing page, check the numbers, and update our data. When a service changes pricing, we document it here with the date, what changed, and the impact on developers.
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