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AI Tool Changes

What's quietly tightening across AI tools — usage limits, quotas and pricing, newest first.

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01 / RECENT CHANGES

JUNE 2026

  1. Jun 2

    Windsurf CAUTION → Product identity shifts from code-first IDE to agent hub

    Impact Med · source
  2. Jun 1

    Cursor CAUTION ↓ Teams re-priced into two pools

    Impact Med · source
  3. Jun 1

    GitHub Copilot CAUTION ↓ Switched to metered AI Credits, no fallback

    Impact High · source
  4. Jun 1

    GitHub Copilot CAUTION ↓ Agentic usage bills jump 10-50x

    Impact High · source

MAY 2026

  1. May 28

    Gemini CAUTION ↑ Partial walk-back after complaints

    Impact Low · source
  2. May 19

    Gemini CAUTION ↓ Moved to opaque compute-based limits

    Impact High · source
  3. May 19

    Gemini CAUTION → New $100 Ultra tier; top tier cheaper

    Impact Low · source
  4. May 15

    Perplexity WATCH ↓ Promo-account queries throttled

    Impact Low · source
  5. May 6

    Claude CAUTION ↑ 5h limits doubled; peak throttling reversed

    Impact Med · source

APRIL 2026

  1. Apr 30

    Grok STABLE → Grok 4.3 released

    Impact Low · source
  2. Apr 30

    Midjourney WATCH ↑ V8.1 generally available; HD ~33% more GPU time than SD

    Impact Low · source
  3. Apr 24

    DeepSeek WATCH ↑ New V4 models; default context raised to 1M

    Impact Low · source
  4. Apr 24

    DeepSeek WATCH ↓ Legacy API model endpoints scheduled for removal

    Impact Med · source
  5. Apr 20

    GitHub Copilot CAUTION ↓ Opus models pulled from Pro tier

    Impact Med · source
  6. Apr 9

    ChatGPT STABLE → New $100 Pro mid-tier

    Impact Low · source

MARCH 2026

  1. Mar 23

    Claude CAUTION ↓ Peak-hour throttling, ~7% of users hit session limits

    Impact High · unannounced · source
  2. Mar 19

    Windsurf CAUTION ↓ Credits replaced by quotas; Pro price up 33%

    Impact High · source
  3. Mar 17

    Midjourney WATCH ↓ New model alpha-gated; Relax (unmetered) unavailable, styling jobs cost 4x

    Impact Low · source
  4. Mar 2

    Claude CAUTION ↑ Memory feature reached Free

    Impact Low · source

FEBRUARY 2026

  1. Feb 24

    Replit STABLE ↑ Core price cut 20%; Teams migrated to Pro

    Impact Low · source
  2. Feb 17

    Grok STABLE → Multi-agent Grok 4.20 beta available

    Impact Low · source
  3. Feb 15

    Replit STABLE ↓ Pricing overhaul; credits now expire; Teams retired

    Impact High · source
  4. Feb 13

    ChatGPT STABLE ↓ Older models removed from picker

    Impact Med · source
  5. Feb 13

    Perplexity WATCH → Deep Research model upgraded

    Impact Low · source
  6. Feb 9

    ChatGPT STABLE ↓ Ads introduced on Free/Go

    Impact Med · source
  7. Feb 6

    Perplexity WATCH ↓ Deep Research quota slashed ~500/day → 20/mo

    Impact High · unannounced · source
  8. Feb 6

    Perplexity WATCH ↓ Pro Labs halved 50 → 25/mo

    Impact Med · unannounced · source
  9. Feb 6

    Perplexity WATCH ↓ File uploads capped (unlimited → 50/week)

    Impact Med · unannounced · source
  10. Feb 2

    ElevenLabs STABLE → v3 promoted to GA

    Impact Low · source

JANUARY 2026

  1. Jan 27

    Gemini CAUTION ↑ Cheaper AI Plus tier reached the US

    Impact Low · source
  2. Jan 15

    ChatGPT STABLE ↑ Cheap $8 Go tier went global

    Impact Low · source
  3. Jan 5

    Grok STABLE ↓ Image-generation policy tightened after regulatory pressure

    Impact Med · source

DECEMBER 2025

  1. Dec 25

    Claude CAUTION ↑ Temporary holiday doubling

    Impact Low · source
  2. Dec 2

    GitHub Copilot CAUTION ↓ Default $0 spend cap removed

    Impact Med · source

NOVEMBER 2025

  1. Nov 27

    Gemini CAUTION ↓ Free Pro-model limit obscured/cut due to demand

    Impact High · unannounced · source
  2. Nov 19

    Grok STABLE ↑ Grok 4.1 available free to all tiers

    Impact Low · source

OCTOBER 2025

  1. Oct 29

    Cursor CAUTION → Composer first-party model launched

    Impact Low · source
  2. Oct 29

    Windsurf CAUTION ↑ Faster, stronger first-party model available

    Impact Low · source
  3. Oct 15

    DeepSeek WATCH ↓ Prior model retired; must move to V3.2-Exp

    Impact Low · source
  4. Oct 2

    Perplexity WATCH ↑ Comet browser opened to everyone

    Impact Low · source

SEPTEMBER 2025

  1. Sep 30

    GitHub Copilot CAUTION → Usage analytics dashboard added

    Impact Low · source
  2. Sep 29

    Claude CAUTION → Sonnet 4.5 released

    Impact Low · source
  3. Sep 29

    DeepSeek WATCH ↑ API token cost cut ~50%

    Impact Low · source
  4. Sep 29

    ElevenLabs STABLE ↓ Two legacy TTS models removed; pinned integrations break

    Impact Med · source
  5. Sep 18

    Replit STABLE ↓ Agent 3 autonomy causes surprise cost overruns

    Impact High · unannounced · source
  6. Sep 15

    Cursor CAUTION ↓ Auto mode no longer free-unlimited

    Impact High · source
  7. Sep 10

    Replit STABLE → Agent 3 released

    Impact Low · source
  8. Sep 9

    ChatGPT STABLE ↑ Plus 3-hour cap doubled after backlash

    Impact Med · source

AUGUST 2025

  1. Aug 29

    DeepSeek WATCH ↑ Context window restored (64K → 128K)

    Impact Low · source
  2. Aug 28

    Claude CAUTION ↓ New weekly ceiling on top of 5h limits

    Impact High · source
  3. Aug 8

    ChatGPT STABLE ↓ New per-model 3-hour caps at GPT-5 launch

    Impact Med · source

JULY 2025

  1. Jul 17

    Perplexity WATCH ↑ New $200 Max tier with uncapped research

    Impact Low · source
  2. Jul 14

    Windsurf CAUTION → Ownership/roadmap now under Cognition

    Impact Med · source
  3. Jul 9

    Grok STABLE → New $300/mo Heavy tier

    Impact Low · source
  4. Jul 8

    Grok STABLE ↓ System-prompt safety incident

    Impact Med · source
  5. Jul 4

    Cursor CAUTION ↑ Refunds for unexpected usage

    Impact Low · source
  6. Jul 1

    Replit STABLE ↓ Flat checkpoint price → variable effort-based cost

    Impact Med · source

JUNE 2025

  1. Jun 27

    DeepSeek WATCH ↓ Regulatory pressure to pull app in Germany (availability risk)

    Impact Med · source
  2. Jun 18

    GitHub Copilot CAUTION ↓ Premium-request caps + overage billing enforced

    Impact Med · source
  3. Jun 18

    Midjourney WATCH ↓ Video jobs burn ~8x the fast-GPU time of images

    Impact Med · source
  4. Jun 17

    Cursor CAUTION → New $200 Ultra tier

    Impact Low · source
  5. Jun 16

    Cursor CAUTION ↓ Request quota replaced by usage-based credits

    Impact High · source
  6. Jun 11

    Midjourney WATCH ↓ Copyright suit; possible forced content/output restrictions

    Impact Med · source
  7. Jun 3

    ElevenLabs STABLE ↑ v3 launched with a temporary 80% discount (expired end of June)

    Impact Low · source

MAY 2025

  1. May 15

    Windsurf CAUTION → First-party SWE-1 models added

    Impact Low · source

APRIL 2025

  1. Apr 9

    Claude CAUTION → New Max tiers added

    Impact Low · source

NOVEMBER 2024

  1. Nov 20

    DeepSeek WATCH ↓ Main chat model's context window halved (128K → 64K)

    Impact Med · source