Scale your service
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When creating a new Aiven service, you are not tied to a plan. Your services can be adjusted to better match your needs. Services can be moved to a higher or lower plan, and to a different tier—Startup, Business or Premium.


1. Log into the `Aiven Console <https://console.aiven.io/>`_, select your project and then select the service you want to scale.
2. On the service page, click **Service settings** from the sidebar. 
3. In the **Service plan** section, click **Actions (...)**. 
4. From the dropdown menu, click **Change plan**.
5. In the **Change service plan** dialog, choose the new service plan and tier, if required.
6. Click **Change**.

Your service is in the *Rebuilding* state. Once the rebuilding is over, your new service plan will be active on your service. The service is still accessible through the plan-change process. 


.. note::

    - You can also use the :ref:`dedicated service update function <avn-cli-service-update>` to scale your service plan via the :doc:`Aiven CLI </docs/tools/cli>`.
    - When you perform a service upgrade or downgrade horizontally, remember to include all additional disks the service uses. For example, when switching from ``Startup-4`` to ``Business-4`` or from ``Business-4`` to ``Startup-4``, include all the additional disks available for this service.