{"id":373,"date":"2025-03-13T20:13:22","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T20:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2025\/03\/13\/10771095-hostinger-horizons-how-to-upgrade-a-plan\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T13:09:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T13:09:12","slug":"10771095-hostinger-horizons-how-to-upgrade-a-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/10771095-hostinger-horizons-how-to-upgrade-a-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Hostinger Horizons: How to Upgrade a Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"no-margin\">In order to have more credits and have more resources to address your Horizons tool, we recommend you to upgrade your Horizons plan &#128640;<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">You are able to upgrade and purchase a plan as well as confirm the upgrade pricing of the Horizons plan by clicking on the Horizons menu and selecting &ldquo;Get AI credits&rdquo;, as below:<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9470\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/04\/upgrade1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"413\" height=\"593\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/04\/upgrade1.png 413w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/04\/upgrade1-209x300.png 209w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 413px) 100vw, 413px\" \/><\/div><div>Where you can select a plan to upgrade:<\/div><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-9471\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/04\/upgrade2-1024x539.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"539\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/04\/upgrade2-1024x539.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/04\/upgrade2-300x158.png 300w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/04\/upgrade2-768x404.png 768w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/04\/upgrade2-1536x809.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/04\/upgrade2.png 1620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/div><div><\/div><div class=\"intercom-interblocks-callout\" style=\"background-color: #e3e7fa80;border-color: #334bfa33\"><strong style=\"font-size: 14px\">Note<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 14px\">: When upgrading to a higher-tier plan, you pay the new plan price minus a credit for unused messages from already paid invoices in the same subscription (until the renewal invoice).<\/span><\/div><p data-start=\"1433\" data-end=\"1750\">Example:<\/p><ul>\n<li data-start=\"1433\" data-end=\"1750\">You buy Starter for $10, use half the messages, and upgrade to Hustler for $20 &rarr; you get a $5 credit for unused messages and pay $15.<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"1433\" data-end=\"1750\">You buy Starter for $10, use all messages, and upgrade to Hustler for $20 &rarr; you pay the full $20, receiving all messages immediately.<\/li>\n<\/ul><p data-start=\"1752\" data-end=\"1910\">For annual plans, unused monthly messages do not carry over to the next month &mdash; once the month passes, unused messages expire and are treated as &ldquo;used&rdquo;.<\/p><div class=\"intercom-interblocks-callout\" style=\"background-color: #e3e7fa80;border-color: #334bfa33\">\n<p class=\"no-margin\">Currently, you are unable to downgrade a Horizons plan. However our product team is aware of this and added this feature to our future product plans.<\/p>\n<\/div><h2 id=\"h_760582edee\">Reaching credit limits<\/h2><p>Before deciding to upgrade or top up, check your current usage:<\/p><p>1. Open your Horizons project.<br>\n2. Click the <b>menu<\/b> (top navigation).<br>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/04\/credits1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"443\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/04\/credits1.png 443w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/04\/credits1-248x300.png 248w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 443px) 100vw, 443px\" \/><br>\n3. Select <b>AI Credits Usage<\/b>.<br>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-9474\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/04\/credits2-1024x735.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"735\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/04\/credits2-1024x735.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/04\/credits2-300x215.png 300w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/04\/credits2-768x551.png 768w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/04\/credits2.png 1132w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p><p>A modal will open showing your monthly credit balance, next reset date, and a usage chart broken down by the last <b>24h \/ 7 days \/ 30 days<\/b>. This helps you decide whether upgrading or purchasing a top-up is the right move.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">If you reached your plan messages limit, and you need more credits to continue working on your projects, there would be <strong>three ways<\/strong> to proceed.<\/p><ul>\n<li class=\"no-margin\">You can <strong>upgrade<\/strong> it in order to get more credits, having in mind that the already used credits would not be counted on the upgrade, only the credits difference.<\/li>\n<li class=\"no-margin\">You will also have the option to purchase <strong>additional messages without upgrading your plan<\/strong>.<br>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-9472\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/04\/upgrade3-1024x673.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"673\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/04\/upgrade3-1024x673.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/04\/upgrade3-300x197.png 300w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/04\/upgrade3-768x504.png 768w, https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2026\/04\/upgrade3.png 1291w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul><div>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"no-margin\">Or you can wait for your Horizons subscription renewal to get your credits added back and be able to continue working on your project.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn more how to upgrade your Horizons subscription<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[293],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hostinger-horizons"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/10771095-hostinger-horizons-how-to-upgrade-a-plan\/","default":1}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9477,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions\/9477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}