> For the full page index, fetch https://echonova.ai/llms.txt # Choose or change your plan Open the Subscription page, compare plans on monthly or yearly billing, subscribe from a trial, upgrade, downgrade, switch the billing cycle, cancel and reactivate, and know when each change takes effect. Every workspace runs on one subscription: a trial with no time limit to begin with, then the paid plan you choose. When you finish this page you will know how to read the **Subscription** page, pick a plan on monthly or yearly billing, subscribe from a trial, move between plans, and cancel or reactivate, with the exact moment each change takes effect and what it does to your credits. ## What you need - A workspace. Every workspace is created with a trial subscription; see [Workspaces](/docs/account/workspaces). - The **Owner** role to subscribe, change, cancel or reactivate. - For a paid plan, a payment method to enter at checkout; see [Pay and manage your payment method](/docs/account/payment-methods). ## Steps ### Step 1: Open the Subscription page Open the user menu and choose **Subscription & billing**, or click **Upgrade Your Plan** on the plan card at the bottom of the sidebar. The page is `/subscription` in the portal. The top of the page names your plan and its state: | You are on | The page shows | | ----------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | A trial | **Free trial** and **Free trial in progress**, with no end date | | A paid plan | **Billed monthly** or **Billed yearly** with the price, then **Next billing date:** and the date | Under it, the **Credit balance** card shows everything you can spend, with **Plan credits**, the rollover limit, the date of the **Next credits** and your **Extra credits** under it. With no paid plan the first card reads **No paid plan, basic limits**. What those figures mean is on [Credits, top-ups and rollover](/docs/account/credits-top-ups-rollover). ### Step 2: Choose monthly or yearly billing Under **Upgrade Your Plan**, the **Monthly** and **Yearly** toggle sets the cycle every card is priced on. **Yearly** carries a **N% OFF** badge when a plan is cheaper per year than twelve months paid monthly. On **Yearly**, each card shows the monthly price struck through, the yearly price divided by twelve, and the whole amount **billed yearly** underneath. Plan credits arrive every month on both cycles; **Yearly** changes when you pay, not how often the credits arrive. See [Credits, top-ups and rollover](/docs/account/credits-top-ups-rollover). ### Step 3: Read a plan card Each card lists the plan's name, its price per month, a short description, its credits every month, such as **600K credits every month**, and a list of what it includes, such as agents, knowledge storage and API keys. One plan carries the **Most Popular** badge. The card's button tells you what choosing it does: | Button | When | What happens | | --------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------ | | **Select Plan** | You are on a trial, or your subscription is canceled or expired | Opens the checkout page for that plan and cycle | | **Current Plan** | Your plan on your current cycle | Nothing; the button is disabled | | **Upgrade** | A higher plan than yours | Opens a confirmation; applies at once | | **Downgrade** | A lower plan than yours | Opens a confirmation; applies at the end of the period | | **Switch to Yearly** | Your plan with **Yearly** selected | Opens a confirmation; applies at once | | **Switch to Monthly** | Your plan with **Monthly** selected | Opens a confirmation; applies at the end of the period | The plan cards scroll sideways on a narrow screen; use the dots or the arrows under them. ### Step 4: Subscribe from a trial 1. Set the cycle, then click **Select Plan** on the plan you want. 2. On the checkout page, check **Subscribe to** and the plan name, the price with **/month** or **/year**, **Subtotal**, and **Total due today**. 3. Pay by card with **Stripe** or **Paymob** inside the page, or with **PayPal**, which takes you to PayPal to approve the payment and back. The details are on [Pay and manage your payment method](/docs/account/payment-methods). 4. Wait on **Processing Your Payment...** until the dialog reads **Payment Successful!** with **You now have N Credits**. Click **Go to home page**. **Back to plans** returns you to the Subscription page without paying. The trial has no time limit. It ends when you pay for a plan, and the unused trial credits end then. Extra credits you bought never expire and keep working. A canceled or expired subscription follows the same steps. A canceled subscription whose period has not ended is refused at checkout with **Subscription is canceled but still active until period ends. Use reactivate instead.**; use **Reactivate Plan** as in Step 7. ### Step 5: Upgrade, downgrade or switch the cycle On an active paid plan, the card's button opens a confirmation instead of the checkout page. The same payment method stays in use. | Change | When it applies | Message | After **Confirm change** | | --------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | To a higher monthly plan | Today | **Starts a new monthly cycle today. You pay** the price **now. Your** N **unused credits stay and the new plan's credits are added.** | Toast **Plan changed** with **Upgraded to {plan}.** | | Monthly to yearly, same or higher plan | Today | **Starts a new yearly cycle today. You pay** the price **now. Your** N **unused credits stay and the new plan's first month of credits is added.** | Toast **Switched to yearly billing.** or **Upgraded to {plan}.** | | Yearly to a higher yearly plan | Today | **Starts a new yearly cycle today. You have used** $U **of your current year, so** $D **comes off the new price. You pay** $X **now.** … | Toast **Upgraded to {plan}.** | | Downgrade, yearly to monthly, or monthly to a lower yearly plan | End of the current period | **Takes effect on** the date**. Until then you keep your current plan and credits. Unused plan credits end at the switch; top-up credits stay.** | Toast **Downgrade to {plan} scheduled at end of period.**, **Switch to monthly billing scheduled at end of period.** or **Change to {plan} scheduled for the end of this period.** | The yearly discount is what you paid for the year minus the part you have used, valued at the monthly price. With $190 paid for Starter yearly and 3 months used, $57 is used, $133 comes off Growth yearly's $790, and you pay $657. After 10 months the discount is $0. A subscription paid by Paymob adds **It is charged to your default card.**; one paid with **PayPal** adds **You approve the new plan on PayPal first.** A downgrade dialog opens with **Heads up:** when the smaller plan cannot hold what the workspace already has, for example **You currently have 6 agents but {plan} only allows 3. You'll need to archive 3 to create new ones.** The same wording covers API keys and knowledge storage. The downgrade still goes through; after it applies you cannot create or upload past the new cap until you are under it. The page does not show a scheduled downgrade or switch to monthly and has no control to withdraw one; confirming another change before the period ends replaces it. **Keep My Plan** closes the dialog without changing anything. Which plan is higher is decided by its tier: Starter, then Growth, then Scale. A subscription paid with **PayPal** is sent to PayPal to approve the new plan before it starts. ### Step 6: Cancel 1. Click **Cancel subscription** under the quick actions. The link is shown on an active paid plan only; a trial has no plan to cancel. 2. The dialog is titled **Cancel Subscription** and asks **Are you sure you want to cancel?**, then **Your {plan} plan will remain active until {date}. After that, you will lose access to:** followed by **Plan credits left now** and the plan's services, and the note **Your subscription credits end on** the date**. Top-up credits never expire.** 3. Click **Cancel Subscription** to confirm or **Keep My Plan** to close. Access continues until the date shown, with your plan credits. On that date the subscription becomes expired: the plan credits end, the page reads **No paid plan, basic limits**, the cards offer **Select Plan** again, and any extra credits you bought never expire. ### Step 7: Reactivate A canceled subscription shows **Reactivate Plan** in place of the cancel link until its period ends. Click it; the toast reads **Reactivated** with **Your subscription is active again.**, and the next renewal is charged as before. Reactivation works for subscriptions paid by card, before the period ends. Past that date the toast reads **Reactivation failed** with **Subscription period has ended. Please subscribe to a new plan.**; a subscription paid with **PayPal** is refused too. In both cases, choose a plan with **Select Plan**. ## Get it right Upgrades and the switch to yearly apply at once; downgrades and the switch to monthly wait for the period to end. On yearly billing that wait is the rest of the year, so settle the plan before you commit to a year of it. **Recommended** - Subscribe on **Monthly**, run a full period on the plan, then **Switch to Yearly** once the allowance fits. **Less effective** - Subscribe on **Yearly** first and change your mind: **Switch to Monthly** and any **Downgrade** apply when the year ends. ## Worked example Your workspace is 12 days into its trial. You open **Subscription & billing**; the top reads **Free trial** and **Free trial in progress**. You leave the toggle on **Monthly** and click **Select Plan** on a card that reads **Growth** and **3M credits every month**. The checkout page reads **Subscribe to Growth** with the monthly price and **Total due today**. You choose **Stripe**, fill in the form and pay. After **Processing Your Payment...** the dialog reads **Payment Successful!** and **You now have 3,000,000 Credits**. The Subscription page now shows the plan's name, **Billed monthly** with the price and **Next billing date:** one month from today, the card reads **Current Plan**, and the **Credit balance** reads 3,000,000. Two weeks later you need more agents. You click **Upgrade** on the next card; the dialog reads **Starts a new monthly cycle today. You pay $249.00 now.** and how many unused credits stay; you click **Confirm change**. The toast reads **Plan changed** and **Upgraded to** the plan's name, **Plan credits** shows what you had left plus 10,000,000. ## What happens next After a subscription starts or renews, the plan credits are granted for the new period and the owner receives a **Subscription renewed** notification, after the first payment and each renewal; see [Read your notifications](/docs/account/notifications). After an upgrade the new cycle and the added credits show at once. After a scheduled downgrade, the plan name, price and allowance change on the **Next billing date**. When a renewal payment cannot be collected, the owner receives a **Payment failed** notification, the portal keeps working for 7 days after the period end, and requests made with an API key are refused during that time. What to do is on [Pay and manage your payment method](/docs/account/payment-methods). ## Limits | Limit | Value | Applies to | | ----------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ---------------------- | | Trial length | No time limit; it ends when you pay for a plan | Every new workspace | | Subscriptions | One per workspace | Every workspace | | Billing cycles | **Monthly** or **Yearly** | Every paid plan | | Plan credits | The card's monthly credits, granted every month on monthly and yearly billing; unused ones roll over up to three times the allowance | Every paid plan | | Upgrade, **Switch to Yearly** | Applies at once and starts a new cycle at the full new price; a yearly upgrade gets the unused value of the year taken off | Active subscriptions | | Downgrade, **Switch to Monthly** | Applies at the end of the current period, as does a switch to a lower yearly plan | Active subscriptions | | Cancel | Access until the **Next billing date**, then basic limits | Active subscriptions | | Reactivate | Until the **Next billing date**, subscriptions paid by card | Canceled subscriptions | | Missed renewal | Access for 7 days after the period end, then expired within the hour | Paid subscriptions | | Who can subscribe, change, cancel or reactivate | **Owner** | Every workspace | ## Troubleshooting ### Failed to load plans. The page could not fetch the plan list. Reload the page; if it persists, sign out and in again. ### Could not start checkout. Shown on the checkout page when the purchase could not be opened; the text carries the reason when there is one. Click **Back to plans** and try again. If the reason is **Workspace already has an active subscription. Use change-plan instead.**, your subscription is already active: use the plan card's **Upgrade** or **Downgrade** button. ### Subscription is canceled but still active until period ends. Use reactivate instead. You canceled and the period has not ended. Click **Reactivate Plan** on the Subscription page instead of **Select Plan**. ### Almost there The success dialog reads **Your payment was received. The subscription will activate in a moment. Refresh the subscription page in a few seconds.** when activation has not completed within about 12 seconds. Click **Go to Subscription** and reload after a moment. ### You lack the required permission(s): billing.manage Your role cannot change the subscription. Ask the workspace **Owner**. ## FAQ ### When do new plan credits arrive? Every month, on yearly billing too. An upgrade starts a new cycle at once and keeps the credits you had. ### Do unused plan credits carry over? Yes, when the same plan renews, up to three times the monthly allowance. Extra credits never expire; see [Credits, top-ups and rollover](/docs/account/credits-top-ups-rollover). ### What does canceling do to my credits? Nothing until the **Next billing date**: you keep the plan and its credits. On that date the plan credits end and basic limits apply; extra credits stay. ### Who can change the plan? The workspace **Owner**. Subscribing, changing, canceling and reactivating Only the workspace owner can do this. ## Related - [Credits, top-ups and rollover](/docs/account/credits-top-ups-rollover): the one balance, rollover and how long each kind of credit lasts - [Pay and manage your payment method](/docs/account/payment-methods): the checkout methods, updating a card, and what a failed payment does - [Download an invoice](/docs/account/invoices): the invoice for each charge - [Track your credit usage](/docs/account/usage): where the balance is shown and what each charge was