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title: "How do I switch my Catalyst account from a subscription plan to pay-as-you-go, and what changes when I switch?"
url: https://docs.catalyst.zoho.com/en/faq/billing/switch-subscription-to-pay-as-you-go/
description: "You change your Catalyst pricing model in Zoho Store. Go to Settings → Billing → Manage Billing, open your Catalyst subscription, click Change Plan and select …"
last_updated: 2026-11-13T05:00:22Z
service: All Services
type: faq
---

You change your Catalyst pricing model in Zoho Store. Go to **Settings** → **Billing** → **Manage Billing**, open your Catalyst subscription, click **Change Plan** and select **Pay-As-You-Go** or another plan. The pricing model applies to all your Catalyst projects, your projects keep running while you switch, and you can move back to a subscription plan later in the same way.

On pay-as-you-go, you pay after each month for the resources you used, and the monthly free tier applies. Once you exceed the free tier for any resource, every project with billable activity is billed at least USD 5 for the month, so delete the projects you no longer need before you switch. On a subscription plan, you prepay a fixed monthly amount, Catalyst adds USD 5 of usage in each billing cycle, and the account is suspended if usage passes that total before you upgrade. Catalyst is priced by usage, not by the number of developers who work in the account.

Note: Only the admins of a Catalyst account, including the Super Admin, can open Manage Billing.

Refer to the [Pay-As-You-Go Pricing Model help page](https://docs.catalyst.zoho.com/en/deployment-and-billing/billing/pay-as-you-go-model/) and the [Subscription Pricing Model help page](https://docs.catalyst.zoho.com/en/deployment-and-billing/billing/subscription-model/) for details.