Gitpod: Free drops Claude-powered Ona Intelligence; Prebuilds and Warm pools added

Between the Dec 29, 2025 and Mar 30, 2026 captures of Gitpod's pricing page, Pulse recorded 2 changes: On the Free plan, 'Ona Intelligence powered by Claude Sonnet 4.5' was replaced by 'Access to Ona's Background Agents', and 'devcontainer.json and automations.yml support' was removed. The Core plan added 'Prebuilds for faster environment starts', and Enterprise replaced SDLC Automations with 'Warm pools for instant environment starts'. Core pricing is unchanged at from $20/month. In detail: Core plan added Prebuilds for faster environment starts. Enterprise replaced SDLC Automations with Warm pools for instant environment starts. New Automations section added to compare table with usage limits; Free plan: 'Ona Intelligence powered by Claude Sonnet 4.5' replaced by 'Access to Ona's Background Agents'; 'devcontainer.json and automations.yml support' removed from Free plan features. Pulse files it as a product change (feature added, feature change). Pulse's latest capture (Nov 9, 2026) lists Core at $20 and OCU Add-on at $10.

This quarterly roll-up includes 4 changes Pulse first recorded in a shorter period: "Gitpod Drops Free AI Branding, Trims Dev Config From Free Tier" (week of Mar 2, 2026, saved Mar 9, 2026), "Gitpod caps automations: 50 for Core, unlimited for Enterprise" (week of Feb 16, 2026, saved Feb 23, 2026) and "Gitpod upgrades Ona Intelligence AI to Claude Opus 4.6" (week of Feb 9, 2026, saved Feb 16, 2026) and 1 more. They are the same changes, not new ones. Before that, Gitpod's previous recorded change was "Gitpod Upgrades Free Plan AI Agent to Ona Intelligence Powered by Claude Sonnet 4.5" (Jan 10, 2026). Gitpod has been tracked since 2023-11-14.

In the same window GitLab, Replit, GitHub and Aws also changed their Software Development & Testing pricing pages. Those moves are listed further down, and the Pulse Agent can compare them side by side.