The Free Tier Isn’t Dying Loudly. It’s Being Repriced Quietly. And the Developer Pipeline Goes With It.

No platform has published a blog post titled “we are ending free hosting for developers.” What has happened instead, across 2025 and 2026, is quieter and collectively more decisive. Fly.io removed its free tier for new customers entirely, only grandfathered Legacy Hobby accounts keep their three free machines; new users start paying from essentially the first […]