Strawberry slashes free plan credits 75%, from 2,000 to 500 a month
What happened
Between the Sep 28, 2026 and Oct 5, 2026 captures of Strawberry's pricing page, Pulse recorded one change: Free plan monthly credit allowance cut from 2,000 to 500 credits; paid plans and $10 per extra 1,000 credits top-up unchanged. Pulse files it as a packaging change (freemium change) with a neutral direction. Pulse's latest capture (Oct 26, 2026) lists Intern at $17, Starter at $35, Part-time at $71, Standard at $150 and Full-time at $208.
It lands 69 days after Strawberry's previous change, "Strawberry: Team plan swaps overage note for shared credit pools" (Jul 27, 2026). Strawberry has been tracked since 2026-07-15.
In the same window Raspberry AI, Murf AI, Wispr Flow, Upstage and Hive also changed their AI & Machine Learning pricing pages. Those moves are listed further down, and the Pulse Agent can compare them side by side.
“Strawberrybrowser” is the name Strawberry’s pricing page uses; Pulse files the change under Strawberry, the company it tracks.
- — · Free tier−75%2,000500 credits
| Plan | Field | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Free tier | 2,000 | 500 credits | −75% |
Values as written on Strawberry's public pricing page in the two captures Pulse compared; where the page states no number, the cells give the wording before and after.
Evidence
The two captures Pulse comparedFull-page captures of Strawberry's pricing page (strawberrybrowser.com) from Sep 28, 2026 and Oct 5, 2026; the change is marked near the top of the page, where free tier reads 2,000 and then 500 credits.
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Strawberry, the last 90 days
Full history- Oct 26, 2026improvedStrawberry: Paid plans gain priority access at peak hours and ChatGPT-plan credit savings; new 'Included in every plan'…
- Oct 19, 2026improvedStrawberry splits pricing into tabs, adds pooled-credit Enterprise plan
- Oct 12, 2026packagingStrawberry cuts Part-time plan to $85, adds per-seat Team tiers
- Oct 5, 2026packagingStrawberry slashes free plan credits 75%, from 2,000 to 500 a month · this change
- Jul 27, 2026improvedStrawberry: Team plan swaps overage note for shared credit pools
Across AI & Machine Learning in the same window
All AI & Machine Learning changes- Raspberry AIOct 19Raspberry AI adds free plan with 20 credits, renames Professional to Pro
- Murf AIOct 26Murf AI debuts $0.24/hour speech-to-text API, with 150 STT concurrency
- Wispr FlowOct 26Wispr Flow blurs Free plan mobile cap, swapping 1,000 words for "limited use
- UpstageOct 26Upstage API: Solar Pro 4 promo changed from 70% off until 2026-10-19 to 50% off until further notice; Solar Mini 4 50%…
- HiveOct 26Hive cuts DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash input to $0.10 and output to $0.35 per 1M
Questions about this change
Did Strawberry raise prices in October 2026?
No list-price increase was recorded between Sep 28, 2026 and Oct 5, 2026. The change Pulse detected was a packaging change: freemium change.
What changed on Strawberry's pricing page between Sep 28, 2026 and Oct 5, 2026?
Free tier: 2,000 → 500 credits (−75%). Pulse compared the captures it took on Sep 28, 2026 and Oct 5, 2026; the before/after table above lists each item as written on the page.
How often does Strawberry change its pricing?
Pulse recorded 1 other pricing-page change for Strawberry in the 90 days before this one; the previous change was "Strawberry: Team plan swaps overage note for shared credit pools" on Jul 27, 2026; Strawberry has been tracked since 2026-07-15.