The tracker
Software price changes and shutdowns: the dated tracker
Every dated change to what software costs or whether it keeps running that the desk has reported, ordered by the day it takes effect. Each one links to the article that sources it. The next is on 1 Dec 2026: Google, promotion ends.
- Coming up
- 13
- Price rises and meters
- 13
- Retirements and shutdowns
- 16
Coming up
Dates still ahead. Put the ones that touch your stack in the renewal calendar now, while the notice period is still useful.
December 2026
- GooglePromotion ends
Gemini 4 Carbon and Argon introductory pricing ends: $2 and $10 per million tokens become $4 and $20, with cached and batch rates doubling too.
Read the report, with sources - MicrosoftNew pricing
Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Business can be bought without a base Microsoft 365 subscription. The current add-on offers reach end of sale in CSP.
Read the report, with sources - AtlassianUsage billing
Rovo credits, automation steps and AI agent resolutions start billing. Jira Standard includes 25 credits per user and a basic event costs 10.
Read the report, with sources - GoogleShutdown
Jules shuts down. Settings, scheduled tasks, memories and sessions must be exported with the Jules Tools CLI before then.
Read the report, with sources - VaronisEnd of support
The self-hosted Varonis Data Security Platform reaches end of life, ahead of the move to SaaS.
Read the report, with sources - MicrosoftPromotion ends
Microsoft 365 E3 promotional offers, extended from 1 October, end.
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January 2027
- MicrosoftNew pricing
Business Central Essentials with Copilot Business at $95 per user per month, and Premium with Copilot Business at $125, for up to 300 seats.
Read the report, with sources Usage-based billing becomes the default for new Copilot Business purchases through CSP, capped at 4,000 Copilot Credits per user per month by default.
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March 2027
- Amazon RDSEnd of support
PostgreSQL 14 moves into paid Extended Support, about $292 a month extra for a 4 vCPU instance at the rate in AWS’s example.
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April 2027
- MicrosoftShutdown
Exchange Web Services is disabled permanently in Exchange Online, and the setting can no longer be changed.
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March 2028
- AtlassianPlan retired
Last day existing Data Center customers can buy licences and expansions.
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August 2028
- Amazon RDSPrice rise
MySQL 8.0 Extended Support moves to year 3 pricing on instances that are still on it.
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March 2029
- AtlassianShutdown
All Data Center licences and their Marketplace app licences expire and become read-only.
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Already in effect
Most recent first. A change that has taken effect still lands on the next renewal or invoice that has not seen it yet.
November 2026
- GoogleNew pricing
Gemini 4 Hydrogen launches at $1.50 input and $7.50 output per million tokens across a 1 million token context.
Read the report, with sources - PostgreSQLEnd of support
PostgreSQL 14 reaches community end of life. On Amazon RDS, standard support runs to 28 February 2027.
Read the report, with sources - AtlassianPrice rise
Last day a monthly customer could pay an annual quote at the pre-13 October price.
Read the report, with sources - GoogleShutdown
Jules turns read-only. Active sessions can no longer be finished.
Read the report, with sources - MicrosoftEnd of support
.NET 8 and .NET 9 reach end of support. .NET 10 and 11 are supported until 14 November 2028.
Read the report, with sources - AnthropicNew pricing
Claude Fable 5.2 cuts the price 20% to $8 input and $40 output per million tokens.
Read the report, with sources - MicrosoftUsage billing
Copilot Chat limits begin for users without a Microsoft 365 Copilot licence, from 9 November in tenants over 2,000 seats. The limits are not published.
Read the report, with sources - MicrosoftPlan retired
AI Builder capacity add-ons are retired from sale. Existing credits last to the end of the term, then Copilot Credits.
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October 2026
- GitHubUsage billing
GitHub Enterprise includes Copilot with no seat charge, and every AI request is billed against the budget from the first, at $0.01 a credit.
Read the report, with sources - OpenAINew pricing
GPT-6.1 Terra launches at $1 input and $5 output per million tokens, $2 and $7.50 above 272,000 input tokens.
Read the report, with sources - MiroAcquisition
Bending Spoons completes its all-cash acquisition of Miro at an enterprise value of $1.355 billion.
Read the report, with sources - VaronisAcquisition
Proofpoint agrees to buy Varonis for about $6.3 billion, $49.75 a share in cash, closing in the first half of 2027.
Read the report, with sources - MicrosoftPrice rise
Windows 10 Extended Security Updates year 2 doubles to €97.01 per device.
Read the report, with sources - MicrosoftEnd of support
Office 2021 and Office LTSC 2021 reach end of support, alongside Windows 11 Home and Pro 24H2 and the last year of Windows Server 2012 ESUs.
Read the report, with sources - AtlassianPrice rise
Cloud list prices rise about 7% to 10%: Jira Standard goes from $9.05 to $9.70 per user per month.
Read the report, with sources - MicrosoftPlan retired
Exchange Web Services is switched off in Exchange Online tenants without an EWSAllowedAppIDs allow-list, in stages.
Read the report, with sources - XeroPrice rise
Xero prices rise from 1 October, so promotional customers revert to a higher figure than the one they compared against.
Read the report, with sources - MicrosoftPrice rise
A 5% uplift applies to CSP software subscriptions on annual terms billed monthly, from each renewal on or after 1 October.
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September 2026
- MicrosoftPromotion ends
Twelve Microsoft promotional offers end, the first of several dated Microsoft licensing changes this autumn.
Read the report, with sources - AirtableAcquisition
Bending Spoons completes its all-cash acquisition of Airtable at an enterprise value of $1.285 billion.
Read the report, with sources - OpenAINew pricing
GPT-6 Astra is priced at $10 input and $50 output per million tokens, rising to $20 and $75 for requests over 272,000 input tokens.
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August 2026
- DuckDBAcquisition
DuckLabs agrees to join AWS as a subsidiary. DuckDB and its extensions stay MIT licensed under the DuckDB Foundation.
Read the report, with sources - Amazon RDSEnd of support
MySQL 8.0 instances past standard support are enrolled in paid Extended Support automatically, with year 1 pricing from 1 August.
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April 2026
- Z.AIPlan retired
Auto-renew is cancelled on eligible legacy plans, which ran without the weekly usage limits current plans carry.
Read the report, with sources - ClayPlan retired
Any plan change after 10 April forces a move from legacy plans to modern plans, which meter Actions and Data credits separately.
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March 2026
- AtlassianPlan retired
Sales of new Data Center subscriptions end. Existing customers can buy licences and expansions until 30 March 2028.
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