How to Cancel GitHub Pro or Team
GitHub Pro ($4/month) and Team ($4/user/month) renew monthly or annually. You can downgrade to GitHub Free anytime — all your repositories, code, issues, and commit history are kept.
✓ What you keep on GitHub Free
- → Unlimited public and private repositories
- → All your commit history, issues, and pull requests
- → 2,000 GitHub Actions minutes/month (vs. 3,000 on Pro)
- → 500MB Packages storage (vs. 2GB on Pro)
- → Protected branches on public repos only (Pro: all repos)
- → GitHub Codespaces: limited free hours
Cancel GitHub Pro (personal account)
- 1
Go to github.com/settings/billing/plans
Sign in and navigate to your billing and plans settings.
- 2
Find "Current plan" → Downgrade to Free
Under your current plan, click the "Downgrade to Free" button.
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Confirm the downgrade
Review the changes, scroll to the bottom, and click "I understand — downgrade my account".
Direct link: github.com/settings/billing/plans →
💡 GitHub Team — organization plan
For GitHub Team plans, go to github.com/organizations/[org-name]/settings/billing/plans. Only the organization owner can downgrade. Members and their contributions stay even after downgrade.
GDPR route — if GitHub (Microsoft) keeps charging you
GitHub (owned by Microsoft) processes EU user data and is bound by GDPR. If you downgraded but continue to be billed, send a formal Art. 17 erasure request.
GDPR Art. 17 — GitHub / Microsoft DPO
privacy@github.com
Subject: "Right to Erasure — Art. 17 GDPR — GitHub Pro". Include your GitHub username and account email.
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