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.

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.