Hey HN, I am using uptimerobot.com for some years now through its free plan. It monitors some hobby-non really important projects. The same plan is advertised here: https://uptimerobot.com/pricing/<p>However, before some days I got the following email: "From 1st November 2024, our Free Plan is for non-commercial use only. If you're using it for business, you'll need to upgrade to a paid plan and now they are forcing me to update."
I also run an uptime monitoring service with the same limitation, it's not sustainable in the long term to offer a free tier otherwise.<p>A bit annoyed about this change though, I used to recommend folks looking for a ridiculous free tier use uptime robot instead.
In my SaaS niche that's common. Some also exclude automated scripts (free only for manual testing), asset tracking (IOT devices sending 24/7) or "you're not allowed to permanently save the output of the tool". I wouldn't call that fake.