Two things are true about Koyeb at the same time right now, and the mix confuses people who are trying to work out whether they still have a free instance.
Mistral AI announced it was acquiring Koyeb on February 17, 2026. Koyeb's FAQ now says the Starter plan will soon be removed and that new users will need to subscribe to Pro, Scale, or Enterprise instead. The pricing page matches: the cheapest plan on offer is Pro at $29/month, with $10 of included compute. There is no free plan listed for anyone signing up today.
But the same FAQ says existing organizations on that plan keep their current terms. So if your org was already on Starter, your free instance is still running — 512MB RAM, 0.1 vCPU, 2GB SSD — and nothing has changed for you yet.
That "yet" is the part worth planning around. The wording is "soon" and "in the coming months." No date has been published for when grandfathered free instances stop. If you have one, it is not a thing to build a long-term dependency on, and it is worth exporting anything you would miss.
Worth knowing if you are reading older write-ups: a lot of them still describe Koyeb's free Hobby tier as though you can go sign up for it. You can't. The instance sizes still appear in Koyeb's public instance catalog, which is probably why the stale posts look plausible.
I keep the current state of it, plus what is still genuinely always-on, written up here: https://toolfreebie.com/koyeb-free-tier-alternatives/
