# Upgrade or downgrade your plan

You can change your plan at any time from **Billing → Packages**.

## Switch your plan

1. Open **Billing → Packages**.
2. Choose the plan you want to switch to.
3. HostTracker shows an **impact preview** - what changes for your account with the new plan: the new monitor
   cap, minimum check interval, and which of your current monitors or features would be affected.
4. Confirm to apply the switch.

The impact preview reflects your account's *actual* current usage at the moment you request it, so it's always
in sync when you confirm - if something about your account changes between opening the preview and confirming,
HostTracker re-checks before applying it rather than acting on stale numbers.

## What happens when you upgrade

Your monitor cap and minimum interval improve immediately, and any features unlocked by the new plan (more
assertions, status pages, subaccounts, and so on) become available right away.

## Do it with the API

Package switching is an **app-only** feature - there is no public v2 API operation or MCP tool for it. The
app's own switch flow calls a first-party, consent-based endpoint: `GET /billing/switch-impact` computes the
exact effect of switching to a given package (what would be paused, disabled or lost, and the price) and
returns it together with a hash; applying the switch must echo that same hash back, and a stale hash (because
your account changed in the meantime) is refused with the fresh impact to re-confirm - so a switch can never
be applied against numbers you didn't actually see.

## What happens when you downgrade

:::caution[Downgrading between plans never deletes data]
Downgrading from one plan to another **never deletes your monitors, their history, contacts or status pages.**
Plan caps only gate what you can *create*. The one exception is a trial that ends with no plan chosen: the account
keeps two monitors running for 3 months and is then deleted (see [Trial](/account/trial/)); switching to Free or any
paid plan before that stops the clock.
:::

If a downgrade puts you over the new plan's limits (for example you have more monitors than the new cap
allows, or a monitor's interval is now below the new plan's floor), HostTracker doesn't delete anything:

- Monitors beyond the new cap are **paused**, not removed. You choose which ones to keep active, or upgrade
  again to bring them all back.
- A monitor whose interval is now below the new plan's floor has its interval raised to the new floor.
- Features no longer included in your new plan (for example a status page custom domain) stop working until
  you upgrade again, but their configuration is preserved.

## Related

- [Plans and packages compared](/account/plans/)
- [The free trial](/account/trial/)
- [Quotas & limits](/account/quotas/)