Upgrade your plan.

Upgrading is instant. Settings → Billing → Change plan → pick Max 5x or Max 20x → confirm. Your usage cap is lifted to the new tier immediately, and the price change is prorated for the current billing cycle.

**Proration math:** if you're 10 days into a 30-day cycle at $20/mo and upgrade to Max 5x ($100/mo), you're charged (20 days / 30 days) × ($100 - $20) = $53.33 for the remainder of this cycle. Your next full cycle is $100. On annual billing, the math is the same but the numerator/denominator use days-in-year.

**Meal donations adjust proportionally.** Your remaining days in the current cycle now count toward the Max 5x donation tier (which is $40/seat/mo → ~50 meals). Your personal ledger updates within 24 hours to reflect the new tier's contribution rate for the remainder of the cycle.

**No trial for Max plans.** We don't offer a free trial of Max because the price difference is designed to cover actual inference cost — a free trial at Max levels would either force us to lose money per trial or restrict the trial in some fake way. Instead: use Base for a full billing cycle first, check your usage in the dashboard, and if you're consistently hitting the cap, the upgrade is defensible.

**Downgrading later** is straightforward — see the "Downgrading your plan" article. There's no lock-in and no cancellation friction. If you upgrade and it turns out you didn't need it, you can drop back at the next cycle.

**Team plans:** upgrades apply per-workspace, and every seat in the workspace moves to the new tier together. You can't have some seats on Base and some on Max within one workspace — plans are workspace-level for admin simplicity. If different team members have genuinely different usage needs, splitting them across separate workspaces or paying per-person on personal plans are both options; email hello@ladle.chat if you want help thinking through the right structure for your team.