"Free Plan For personal projects, we offer a free plan for uploading 500 files/month with a max file size of 20 MB.

The free plan does not include customizing the logo or CSS of the dialog, S3 storage, or image conversion"

I use the free plan for some admin zones, few users, maybe 20 uploads/month. Now i have to pay or rework the file uploads. I feel "dark patterned".

As surapaneni rightfully commented - they do offer a free plan for personal use, which you'll be able to use.

I'm using them for some commercial projects just as a client side library to allow uploading files to my s3 account (although they do some work on their server side as well). It's a shame they're changing the terms for the existing user. I don't expect things to be free - unless they are offered as such, with no expiration date.

I know about the new free plan, but no image manipulation or direct s3 uploads means I still have to rework on my code or pay. So you do if you use direct to s3 uploads.

I dont expect good stuff to be free, and Ink is indeed good, but i still think this goes into the dark pattern category. I bet there are many devs in our situation, and plenty will just pay.

I tend to agree. I just signed up for uploadcare.com, haven't tried them out, but the design seems very nice, and the their free tier allows up to 1k uploads a month - forever (got a very prompt response from the founder).

I just did the same. They seem like a reasonably good competitor, besides the fact that they offer less file sources. I just can't mentally justify filepicker's new pricing scheme.