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.

Claude's $200 Tier Is Now Called Ultra, and Max Halved

A plan name changed without a price change, and most coverage missed both halves. The credits are the real story, and one exclusion makes them less useful than they look.

ChatGPT and Codex Share One Allowance From December

Two meters become one in December. The people who lose are the ones who code heavily and chat heavily on the same account, and nobody has published how big the pool is.

India's Free ChatGPT Go Year Ends From Tomorrow

The free year most Indian ChatGPT users claimed in November 2025 runs out from tomorrow. Go renews at Rs 399 unless cancelled, and the model you lose is not the one you think.

Copilot Fusion Reaches the Free Plan, Minus the Effort Levels

The multi-model router shipped to the free tier on day one, which almost never happens. What free users do not get is the two effort levels that make it worth talking about.

Google Is Killing Jules, and Its Free Tier Has No Replacement

The free coding agent that ran 15 tasks a day is closing in eight weeks. Google says the lessons move to Antigravity, but nobody has said what replaces the free allowance.

OpenAI Cancelled the ChatGPT Pro 200 Cut After 29 Days

A price cut that never happened is a rarer story than one that did. OpenAI backed out on 29 October, and the plan name everyone was told to dread is available to new subscribers again.

Suno MCP Is Free on Every Plan, But Your Chat App Is Not

Suno says the MCP works on all its plans, Free included. That is true and almost irrelevant, because the assistant you plug it into has its own paywall.

Apple Creator Studio's AI Is Subscription-Only

The 27 October update put AI assistants inside Keynote, Pages and Numbers, three apps that ship free with every Apple device. None of those assistants work without a Rs 399 a month subscription.

Your Free Google AI Pro Is Not the Same Plan

Same plan name, same $19.99 value, fewer models. Google's own Antigravity docs list four models a promotional Pro plan cannot reach.

ChatGPT Now Reads iCloud Mail on the Free Plan

Connectors were the feature free users could not reach. OpenAI shipped two of them to every plan at once, and the real limit is not your plan but your address.