# Premium

> What Premium includes, how server activations work, and how to move Premium to another server.

Category: Premium · Updated: 2026-09-13 · Source: https://eara.io/help-center/premium

Premium plans belong to **you**, not to a server — you decide which servers get it.

Each plan comes with a number of **server activations**, and each activation
upgrades one server. Everyone in that server gets the benefits without paying or
needing their own plan.

See [plans and pricing](/features) for each plan's price and activation count.

## What you get

- **Better sound quality.**
- **Crossfade** between songs, configured with `/settings crossfade`.
- **Effects and spatial audio without voting.** Anyone in the server can use
  `/effects` and `/immersive`, and effects stay on.
- **No vote locks** for anyone in the server.

## See your Premium

`/premium view` [or use the dashboard](https://eara.io/dashboard/settings)

This shows:

1. **Your plans:** plan name, billing interval, next payment date, and how many
   activations you've used.
2. **This server:** whether it has Premium, and who's paying for it.

## Activate Premium in a server

Run this in the server you want to upgrade:

`/premium activate` [or use the dashboard](https://eara.io/dashboard/servers)

If you see *"Premium could not be activated. Check your available plan seats."*,
you've used every activation on your plan. Deactivate Premium in another server
or buy a plan with more activations.

## Move Premium to another server

`/premium deactivate` [or use the dashboard](https://eara.io/dashboard/servers)

This removes Premium from the server and frees the activation so you can use it
elsewhere. The person paying for the plan can run it; anyone else needs
the **Administrator** permission.

Deactivating does **not** cancel your subscription. To stop paying, see
[Premium billing](/help-center/premium-billing).

## Change your plan

`/premium manage` [or use the dashboard](https://eara.io/dashboard/settings)

This opens your Polar portal, or Discord's subscription settings if you paid
through Discord.