diff --git a/backend/archives.py b/backend/archives.py
index 12cc507b..87136796 100644
--- a/backend/archives.py
+++ b/backend/archives.py
@@ -16,6 +16,10 @@ from users import User
 from invites import InvitePending, InviteToArchiveRequest, UserRole
 
 
+# crawl scale for constraint
+MAX_CRAWL_SCALE = 3
+
+
 # ============================================================================
 class UpdateRole(InviteToArchiveRequest):
     """Update existing role for user"""
diff --git a/backend/crawlconfigs.py b/backend/crawlconfigs.py
index 65725f5b..5e4099ed 100644
--- a/backend/crawlconfigs.py
+++ b/backend/crawlconfigs.py
@@ -9,11 +9,11 @@ import asyncio
 from datetime import datetime
 
 import pymongo
-from pydantic import BaseModel, UUID4
+from pydantic import BaseModel, UUID4, conint
 from fastapi import APIRouter, Depends, HTTPException
 
 from users import User
-from archives import Archive
+from archives import Archive, MAX_CRAWL_SCALE
 
 from db import BaseMongoModel
 
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ class CrawlConfigIn(BaseModel):
     colls: Optional[List[str]] = []
 
     crawlTimeout: Optional[int] = 0
-    parallel: Optional[int] = 1
+    scale: Optional[conint(ge=1, le=MAX_CRAWL_SCALE)] = 1
 
     oldId: Optional[UUID4]
 
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ class CrawlConfig(BaseMongoModel):
     colls: Optional[List[str]] = []
 
     crawlTimeout: Optional[int] = 0
-    parallel: Optional[int] = 1
+    scale: Optional[conint(ge=1, le=MAX_CRAWL_SCALE)] = 1
 
     aid: UUID4
 
@@ -142,11 +142,12 @@ class CrawlConfigsResponse(BaseModel):
 
 
 # ============================================================================
-class UpdateScheduleOrName(BaseModel):
+class UpdateCrawlConfig(BaseModel):
     """ Update crawl config name or crawl schedule """
 
     name: Optional[str]
     schedule: Optional[str]
+    scale: Optional[conint(ge=1, le=MAX_CRAWL_SCALE)]
 
 
 # ============================================================================
@@ -216,9 +217,13 @@ class CrawlConfigOps:
 
         return result, new_name
 
-    async def update_crawl_config(self, cid: uuid.UUID, update: UpdateScheduleOrName):
-        """ Update name and/or schedule for an existing crawl config """
-        if update.schedule is None and update.name is None:
+    async def update_crawl_config(self, cid: uuid.UUID, update: UpdateCrawlConfig):
+        """ Update name, scale and/or schedule for an existing crawl config """
+
+        # set update query
+        query = update.dict(exclude_unset=True, exclude_defaults=True, exclude_none=True)
+
+        if len(query) == 0:
             raise HTTPException(status_code=400, detail="no_update_data")
 
         # update schedule in crawl manager first
@@ -233,15 +238,6 @@ class CrawlConfigOps:
                     status_code=404, detail=f"Crawl Config '{cid}' not found"
                 )
 
-        # set update query
-        query = {}
-
-        if update.schedule is not None:
-            query["schedule"] = update.schedule
-
-        if update.name is not None:
-            query["name"] = update.name
-
         # update in db
         if not await self.crawl_configs.find_one_and_update(
             {"_id": cid, "inactive": {"$ne": True}}, {"$set": query}
@@ -426,7 +422,7 @@ def init_crawl_config_api(
 
     @router.patch("/{cid}", dependencies=[Depends(archive_crawl_dep)])
     async def update_crawl_config(
-        update: UpdateScheduleOrName,
+        update: UpdateCrawlConfig,
         cid: str,
     ):
         return await ops.update_crawl_config(uuid.UUID(cid), update)
@@ -434,7 +430,7 @@ def init_crawl_config_api(
     # depcreated: to remove in favor of general patch
     @router.patch("/{cid}/schedule", dependencies=[Depends(archive_crawl_dep)])
     async def update_crawl_schedule(
-        update: UpdateScheduleOrName,
+        update: UpdateCrawlConfig,
         cid: str,
     ):
         return await ops.update_crawl_config(uuid.UUID(cid), update)
diff --git a/backend/crawls.py b/backend/crawls.py
index 91955420..692a2d04 100644
--- a/backend/crawls.py
+++ b/backend/crawls.py
@@ -9,12 +9,12 @@ from typing import Optional, List, Dict, Union
 from datetime import datetime
 
 from fastapi import Depends, Request, HTTPException
-from pydantic import BaseModel, UUID4
+from pydantic import BaseModel, UUID4, conint
 import pymongo
 import aioredis
 
 from db import BaseMongoModel
-from archives import Archive
+from archives import Archive, MAX_CRAWL_SCALE
 from storages import get_presigned_url
 
 
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ class DeleteCrawlList(BaseModel):
 class CrawlScale(BaseModel):
     """ scale the crawl to N parallel containers """
 
-    scale: int = 1
+    scale: conint(ge=1, le=MAX_CRAWL_SCALE) = 1
 
 
 # ============================================================================
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ class Crawl(BaseMongoModel):
 
     state: str
 
-    scale: int = 1
+    scale: conint(ge=1, le=MAX_CRAWL_SCALE) = 1
     completions: Optional[int] = 0
 
     stats: Optional[Dict[str, str]]
diff --git a/backend/k8sman.py b/backend/k8sman.py
index f0938dea..db39731e 100644
--- a/backend/k8sman.py
+++ b/backend/k8sman.py
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ class K8SManager:
             labels,
             annotations,
             crawlconfig.crawlTimeout,
-            crawlconfig.parallel,
+            crawlconfig.scale,
         )
 
         spec = client.V1beta1CronJobSpec(
@@ -468,9 +468,6 @@ class K8SManager:
         if not job or job.metadata.labels["btrix.archive"] != aid:
             return "Invalid Crawled"
 
-        if parallelism < 1 or parallelism > 10:
-            return "Invalid Scale: Must be between 1 and 10"
-
         job.spec.parallelism = parallelism
 
         await self.batch_api.patch_namespaced_job(