Cursor Will Host Your App Now, and Free Plans Cannot Use It

An IDE quietly became a hosting platform, and the free tier stopped at the door for the second time in a month.

Semrush Stopped Tracking Copilot Today, and the Drop Is Not Visibility

Every AI visibility dashboard lost one engine today, and the first number to move will be misread by most of its customers.

Search Console Now Shows AI Impressions, and Every Site Can See Them

The one measurement a site owner can get for free, and it explains a pattern this site has been living through since October.

Zapier Deleted Its Page and Claude Still Read It Perfectly

A controlled experiment from a team with production traffic, and the result is the most useful thing published about agent readability this year.

Google Vids Gives Three Free AI Videos a Month. The API Sells None

One of the widest free-tier video allowances on the market, sitting on top of a model that is paid-only for developers.

Vercel's $30 Token Pass Gives $80 of Credit, and Hobby Cannot Buy It

A credit multiplier that only exists on one plan, from the company that also runs the free tier most people start on.

Cloudflare Says Agent Traffic Breaks the Free Tier Economics

A policy paper rather than a product launch, and it admits the thing most free tiers have been quietly absorbing for a year.

Cloudflare Now Shows You Which AI Agents Are Reading Your Site

Two new controls that decide whether ChatGPT and friends can read your site, plus the one default that most site owners have never looked at.

Copilot Now Lives Inside Xcode, and Free Users Get the Same Cap

A public preview that quietly answers the question every Xcode user asks first: does the free tier work here, or is this another paid-only integration.

ChatGPT Pro Now Bundles API Credits, But Plus Gets Nothing

A subscription benefit that mirrors the tier price, expires monthly, and cannot cover the one product most subscribers would want it for.

Gemini 2.5 Pro and Flash Retire on 1 December, and Free Users Move Down

Google announced both retirements on 2 November and neither is a shutdown. The traffic simply moves, at a different price, to a model you did not choose.

Cloudflare Free Logs Stop at 0.5 GB a Day, and You Cannot Buy More

A free tier that stops rather than bills is rare and, for one class of user, worse. When Cloudflare's new meter starts on 1 December, free accounts simply go dark.