DeepSeek's Free Web Search Ends on 1 November

The tokens were never the expensive part. From Sunday, every web search an agent makes through DeepSeek costs money, and the free carve-out that hid it disappears.

ChatGPT Pro 200 Loses Its Grandfathered Allowance on Thursday

The price does not move and the plan name does not change. The included usage drops anyway, and there is no purchase that restores it.

Big Cartel's Free Gold Plan Sells Five Things, Fee Free

Five products, no monthly cost and no commission. The oldest free tier in e-commerce is still the cheapest way to run a small shop honestly.

Ecwid No Longer Has a Free Plan. Its Pricing Page Proves It.

The free plan that made Ecwid popular is not on the pricing page any more. The cheapest entry is a paid tier with a ten-product cap.

Gumroad Has No Free Plan. It Has a 10% Cut.

There is no plan to choose. You pay nothing to list and a tenth of everything you sell, or a third if the buyer came from Gumroad.

Payhip Is Free Forever and Takes 5% of Everything

Every feature is on every plan, including free. The only thing that changes as you pay more is how large a cut Payhip takes.

Square Free Takes 3.3% and Gives You a Store

No subscription, a real online store and a point of sale. The cost is entirely per transaction, which makes the maths depend on how much you sell.

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.

Netlify Gives 300 Credits a Month. Here Is What They Buy.

A hosting plan metered in credits rather than gigabytes, where a single production deploy costs fifteen and bandwidth costs twenty per gigabyte.

Framer Free Is Buildable and Explicitly Non-Commercial

Almost no page limit, almost no bandwidth, and a licence that rules out the one thing most people want to build. The restriction is legal, not technical.

Webflow Free Allows Two Pages. That Is the Entire Plan.

The most capable visual builder in this category gives away almost nothing. Two static pages is not a website, it is a demonstration of one.

WordPress.com Free Is 1GB and Someone Else's Adverts

Unlimited posts, unlimited users, one gigabyte of media, and advertising you cannot switch off. The limits sit somewhere nobody expects.