# Upgrade to Chainguard Team URL: https://www.chainguard.dev/docs/get-started/self-serve/upgrade-team.md Last Modified: November 10, 2026 Tags: Procedural Move a Chainguard Starter organization to the paid Chainguard Team plan with chainctl, pay by card, and manage or cancel the plan [Chainguard Team](/get-started/self-serve/plans/) is Chainguard's paid self-serve plan. You upgrade a Chainguard Starter organization to Team with `chainctl` and pay by card, and Team limits apply as soon as the first payment succeeds. This page covers upgrading, what changes afterward, how billing works, and how to change your card or cancel. ## Before you begin You need the following: * A Chainguard Starter organization. To create one, refer to [Sign up for Chainguard Starter](/get-started/self-serve/sign-up-starter/). * The `limited_owner` or `owner` role in that organization. The person who created a Starter organization has the `limited_owner` role. * `chainctl` 0.2.394 or later. To update it, run `sudo chainctl update`, or `brew upgrade chainctl` if you installed it with Homebrew. * A credit or debit card and its billing address. ## Upgrade your organization To upgrade to Team, complete the following steps: 1. Run `chainctl plans update` with `--plan team`: ```shell chainctl plans update --plan team ``` If you belong to more than one organization, add `--parent` with the name of the organization to upgrade. 1. In the checkout page that opens in your browser, enter your card and billing address, select the checkbox to accept the terms, then save your card. If the page shows **I'm purchasing as a business**, which depends on your billing country, you can select it and enter a business tax ID, such as a VAT number. Saving the card doesn't charge it. 1. Wait for the first payment. Chainguard charges the card for the first month, and your organization moves to Team once the charge succeeds. That usually takes a few minutes. 1. Confirm the upgrade: ```shell chainctl plans describe ``` The output names the Team plan. Until the payment succeeds, it still reads Starter. 1. Sign in again, so your credentials carry the `owner` role that the upgrade gives you: ```shell chainctl auth login ``` If you're working on a machine without a browser, such as over SSH, add `--no-browser`. The command prints the checkout page's URL, which you can open on another device. ## What changes when you upgrade Your organization keeps its name, members, and images, and gets the following: * **Team limits.** Refer to [Plan limits](/get-started/self-serve/plans/#plan-limits) for the full list. * **The `owner` role for you.** The person who completes checkout is made an owner of the organization, as long as they still have the `owner` or `limited_owner` role when the upgrade completes. Other members keep their roles. Consider giving the `owner` role to a second person, so the organization doesn't depend on a single person. * **Image swaps.** You can replace an image you chose with another one, once in a rolling 30 days. * **Invitations outside your email domain.** You can invite anyone, with any role you hold yourself. * **CVE-remediated Chainguard Libraries versions.** * **Ticket support** during business hours. Refer to [Get support](/get-started/get-support/). After the upgrade, `chainctl starter status` and `chainctl starter add-images` work as they did on Starter. They need `chainctl` 0.2.399 or later; earlier releases report that no Starter organization exists. Team pull tokens are limited to 7 days, a limit Chainguard doesn't enforce yet. For CI pipelines, use a CI identity instead; refer to [Chainguard plans](/get-started/self-serve/plans/#plan-limits). If you created your organization with a personal email address, its Checks and Workspaces compute stops at the included amount rather than being metered past it. ## How Team is billed Team is billed monthly, in advance, to the card you saved. The first month starts on the day you upgrade. Applicable tax is added. For the current price, refer to the [Chainguard pricing page](https://www.chainguard.dev/pricing). Storage above Team's included 500 GiB is metered, and Chainguard starts charging for it on January 1, 2027. Checks and Workspaces compute past the included amount is metered, up to 2,000 vCPU-hours a month. To check your usage, refer to [Usage, limits, and billing](/get-started/self-serve/usage-and-billing/). ## Change your card To replace the card your plan is charged to, run `chainctl plans add-card`. It opens a page where you save a new card, without charging anything: ```shell chainctl plans add-card ``` If the page shows **I'm purchasing as a business**, which depends on your billing country, you can also enter a business tax ID, such as a VAT number. The tax ID is saved with your billing details and appears on later invoices. ## Cancel Team To cancel Team, contact Chainguard support. Refer to [Get support](/get-started/get-support/). Your organization moves back to Starter, which includes up to five images, so support asks which images to keep. To move to an Enterprise plan instead, [contact Chainguard](https://www.chainguard.dev/contact).