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Render rebuilds two product lines in one day
On 2025-11-02, Render removed its flat $1/mo Cron Jobs tier [8] and replaced it with five new cron tiers scaled by RAM/CPU [11-15], while also adding two new high-end Key Value tiers at $550/mo (20GB RAM) [9] and $1,100/mo (40GB RAM) [10]. This is a full re-pricing of two product lines simultaneously, not incremental tweaks — customers on the old $1/mo cron plan need to check which new tier maps to their workload.
Clerk strips $200/mo of add-ons and moves Pro to usage billing
Clerk removed both its Enhanced Authentication add-on ($100/mo) [6] and Enhanced B2B SaaS add-on ($100/mo) [7] on the same day it switched Pro from flat to usage-based billing [5]. Combined, this is a structural shift away from predictable flat pricing toward variable costs, with previously discrete features (MFA, custom roles) needing a new home.
Honeycomb drops two mid-tier Pro plans
Honeycomb removed both Pro 450M ($585/mo) [17] and Pro 1.5B ($1,950/mo) [18] event-volume tiers on 2025-11-15. Customers on either tier lose a defined price point for their event volume and must renegotiate, likely into a differently structured plan.
Notion continues shifting Free tier economics
Following last cycle's AI add-on churn, Notion's Free tier itself moved from flat to per-seat billing [0], while the standalone Notion AI tier was removed again in this cycle [1] — reinforcing the pattern from the prior digest of Notion pulling discrete AI pricing in favor of per-seat or bundled models.
Netlify and new entrants nibble at the low end
Netlify added a $9/mo Personal tier [3] and raised Pro by $1/mo [2], then loosened Pro's seat cap [4] two months later. Meanwhile Buildkite launched a free Personal tier [16] and PlanetScale added a $5/mo Postgres tier [19] — three vendors this cycle courting price-sensitive small teams with new low-cost entry points, a contrast to the enterprise-ward moves seen at Render and Clerk.