Upgrading your plan
IBM Watson™ Discovery offers three plans that provide different levels of resources and capabilities to suit your needs.
See Discovery pricing plans and Discovery catalog for details.
You cannot directly upgrade your plan from Lite to XS because XS plans are not suitable for production usage. If you have the Lite plan but want the XS plan, you must create a new
instance by using the XS size and then manually recreate your collections. In addition, you cannot directly downgrade from S to XS. If you have the S plan but want the XS plan,
follow the same steps in the case of moving to an XS plan from a Lite plan.
You cannot upgrade from a Lite (v1) plan to a Plus (v2) plan. And you cannot upgrade from an Advanced (v1) plan to a Premium (v2) plan. To start using v2, create a new Plus or Premium plan. For more information about Premium plan instances that were created on or after 16 July 2020 or about Plus (including Plus Trial) plan instances, see these docs.
Upgrading your service
To resize your plan from Lite to Advanced:
- From the resource list, click on your Discovery instance to go to the Discovery dashboard page.
- From the Manage page of Discovery, click Upgrade to choose the Advanced plan. Follow the steps on the Plan page to complete your upgrade.
- Return to the Manage page and click Launch Watson Discovery to open the Discovery tooling.
- If you never created an environment for your Lite plan before the upgrade to Advanced, click the
icon, and choose Create environment. Choose the options for the Advanced plan
that fit your needs. (X-Small,Small,Medium-Small,Medium,Medium-Large,Large,X-Large,XX-Large). - If you created an environment for your Lite plan before the upgrade to Advanced, your new Advanced plan environment is set to
Smallby default.
- If you never created an environment for your Lite plan before the upgrade to Advanced, click the
Switching from one Advanced tier to another
If you already have an Advanced plan, and would like to upgrade it to a larger plan size, you can do so using the API.
For detailed information on Advanced plan storage limits and pricing, see Advanced pricing plans.
Available Advanced plan sizes are:
| Plan size | Label |
|---|---|
| X-Small | XS |
| Small | S |
| Medium-Small | MS |
| Medium | M |
| Medium-Large | ML |
| Large | L |
| X-Large | XL |
| XX-Large | XXL |
- Querying and indexing can proceed during upgrading. The time required for upgrading depends on a number of factors. You can poll your environment, using the API, while the upgrade completes.
- Moving from one level of Advanced to another does not require the creation of new instances.
- After the upgrade is complete, you are billed at the new plan rate.
- If you later find that you need a smaller plan size, set up the appropriate plan size, migrate your data, and cancel the larger plan.