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Vercel AI Gateway's Free Tier Is $5 a Month With No Bring-Your-Own-Key
Five dollars is not a rounding error at provider list price, and the restrictions tell you exactly where the free tier is aimed.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Carrd Gives You Three Free Sites and No Domain of Your Own
One page, three sites, every core feature, and an address that is not yours. Carrd is the cheapest good page on the internet until you want a domain.