Changing your subscription plan

Changing your SonarQube Cloud plan is straight forward however, it depends on the move you're making (upgrade/downgrade) and if your on a monthly or yearly subscription billing schedule.

This page explains how to upgrade to or downgrade from a subscription plan, and how to change the Lines of Code (LOC) limit of your organization or enterprise.

Upgrading from Free to Team

Monthly subscription

1. Retrieve your organization. See Retrieving your organizations for more details.

2. Select the Billing & Upgrade tab.

3. In Current plan, select Modify plan. The Upgrade to the Team plan page opens.

4. In Plan details, select the Lines of Code (LOC threshold) you want to purchase for the organization. See LOC-based pricing in Subscription plans for more information.

5. Select Continue to billing information.

6. Enter your billing information.

7. Select Continue to payment information.

8. Enter your credit card information.

9. Select Upgrade.

Yearly or custom subscription

1. Select the Lines of Code (LOC threshold) you want to purchase for the organization. See LOC-based pricing in Subscription plans for more details.

2. Contact our team to purchase a yearly or custom coupon for the selected LOC.

3. Once you have your coupon, retrieve your organization. See Retrieving your organizations for more information.

4. Select the Billing & Upgrade tab.

5. In Already have a coupon?, select the apply it directly here link.

6. Enter the coupon and select Apply coupon.

Upgrading to the Enterprise plan

See Setting up your enterprise for more information.

Changing the LOC limit of your subscription

If you have a monthly subscription, you can change your LOC (Lines of Code) limit in the UI. Otherwise, contact our team. For more information about the LOC, see LOC-based pricing.

You cannot change the LOC of a legacy paid plan. You can only migrate your legacy paid plan organization to Free or upgrade it to Team or Enterprise. See above.

To change the LOC limit of your monthly subscription:

Monthly subscription

1. Retrieve your organization. See Retrieving your organizations for more details.

2. Select the Billing & Upgrade tab.

3. In the Current plan section, select Modify plan.

4. In Plan Details > How many lines of code?, change the LOC.

5. Select Update.

Yearly or custom subscription

Contact our team.

Note that:

• If you increase the LOC limit, the change takes effect immediately and you will be charged on the next billing date with the pro-rated amount for the rest of the current billing period.

• If you decrease the LOC limit, the change will take effect on the next billing cycle.

Changing your legacy free or paid plan

The legacy free and paid plans have been replaced by the new Free and Team plans, respectively. They will soon no longer be supported.

Before migrating, determine the number of private lines (LOC) your organization needs and check the features of each plan. See Reviewing the plan changes for additional information.

To migrate your organization to another plan:

1. Retrieve your organization. See Retrieving your organizations for more details.

2. Select the Billing & Upgrade tab.

3. In Current plan, select Modify plan and follow the instructions to select your new plan.

If your organization doesn’t comply with the new plan’s limits (maximum number of members and maximum LOC), a warning is displayed, and you are guided through the steps necessary to make your organization comply with these limits.

Downgrading an organization

When you downgrade an organization, the downgrade will take effect on the next billing cycle.

Before downgrading, see Reviewing the plan changes below.

Reviewing the plan changes

When you downgrade:

• The maximum number of LOC you can analyze in your private projects will decrease if you downgrade from Team to Free. If your currently LOC used is over the maximum LOC of the target plan, you won’t be able to analyze all your current private projects anymore. This means also automatic project provisioning through your CI/CD pipeline will create public projects.

• You may lose access to features: see the table below. In particular, be aware of the downgrade impacts explained in the If you lose it during the downgrade column.

Feature	Available from	If you lose it during a downgrade
AI CodeFix	Team	As a developer, you can’t use the AI CodeFix feature to resolve your code issues anymore. See Overview for more details.
Custom quality profiles	Team	You can’t manage custom quality profiles anymore. Only the built-in quality profile (Sonar way) can be used. Your existing custom quality profiles are not deleted, but they are removed from your project settings, and you can’t use them anymore. If you upgrade your plan, you regain access to them. See Understanding quality profiles for more details.
Custom quality gates	Team	You can’t manage custom quality gates anymore. Only the built-in quality gate (Sonar way) can be used. Your existing custom quality gates are not deleted, but they are removed from your project settings, and you can’t use them anymore. If you upgrade your plan, you regain access to them. See Understanding quality gates for more details.
Enterprise languages	Enterprise	The following languages can no longer be analyzed: APEX, ABAP, COBOL, JCL, PL/I, and RPG.
Feedback on all branches	Team	The Branch analysis is now limited to the main branch, and the pull request analysis is now limited to pull requests where the target branch is the main branch. Note that it’s still possible to analyze any branch and any pull request. SonarQube Cloud stores the analysis results in its database but you can’t access them. If you upgrade your plan, you (re)gain access to all your previous analyses.
GitHub advanced security integration	Enterprise	The report of the security issues inside the GitHub interface as code scanning alerts is not supported anymore.
GitHub member sync	Team	You cannot access the GitHub member synchronization feature anymore. See DevOps platform authentication for more details.
Groups (member management)	Team	You can’t manage custom groups anymore. This means that only the built-in groups are used (Owners and Members). The permissions of the built-in groups are set back to their default values and you cannot change them. See Built-in groups for more details. Warning: Your existing custom groups are deleted. The Owners group is recreated by adding all users with administration permissions who belonged to the Owners group or a deleted custom group.
Management reporting	Enterprise	You have no access to the Enterprise reporting features anymore (portfolios, security and project reports). See Introduction to Viewing the enterprise reports for details.
Permission templates	Team	You can’t manage permission templates anymore. Warning: Your existing permission templates are deleted.
Projects Management	Enterprise	As an organization admin, you lose access to: • The Projects Management page, which allows you to manage projects in a centralized manner. • Organization-wide project configuration of: long-lived branch patterns, analysis scope adjustment, and automatic analysis disabling.
Single Sign-On (SSO)	Enterprise	You’ll have to delete all SSO accounts before the downgrade. See SSO authentication for more details.
Quality profile admin delegation	Enterprise	As a user with the Quality Profiles Administration permission, you can no longer authorize users or groups to manage a specific custom quality profile. See Granting permissions to users for more details.
Unlimited team members	Team	The number of members in your organization is now limited to 5.
Webhooks	Team	You can’t manage Webhooks anymore. Your existing webhooks are not deleted but SonarQube Cloud will not invoke them anymore (you can still delete them). If you upgrade your organization, you regain access to them.

Downgrading from Team

1. Retrieve your organization. See Retrieving your organizations for more details.

2. Select the Billing & Upgrade tab.

3. In the Current plan section, select Modify plan.

4. On the new page, click the visit our compare plan page link. A new page displays a summary of the different plans.

5. In the Free column, select Downgrade to Free. SonarQube Cloud checks if your organization complies with the Free plan’s limit (maximum number of members). If not, a warning is displayed, and you are guided through the steps necessary to make your organization comply with this limit. Once this is done, you will be able to proceed to the next step.

6. Select Next step.

7. You can now review the plan changes: what you will gain and what you will lose. Select Next step.

8. If you agree to downgrade, enter your organization name and select Downgrade organization. Otherwise, select Cancel download.

Downgrading from Enterprise

When you remove an organization from your enterprise, the organization is automatically downgraded to the plan of your choice. See Removing an organization from your enterprise.

Terminating a monthly subscription

A monthly subscription is automatically renewed. To terminate it, you can delete (seeDeleting organization) or downgrade it (see above) to Free.

Related pages

• Subscription plans

• Billing model

• Signing up for a plan

• Updating billing or payment details

• Viewing billing or usage information

• Viewing taxes and invoices