---
title: Downgrading your account's plan
intro: 'You can downgrade the plan for any type of account on {% data variables.product.prodname_dotcom %} at any time.'
redirect_from:
  - /github/setting-up-and-managing-billing-and-payments-on-github/downgrading-your-github-subscription
  - /articles/downgrading-your-personal-account-s-billing-plan
  - /articles/how-do-i-cancel-my-account
  - /articles/downgrading-a-user-account-to-free
  - /articles/removing-paid-seats-from-your-organization
  - /articles/downgrading-your-organization-s-paid-seats
  - /articles/downgrading-your-organization-s-billing-plan
  - /articles/downgrading-an-organization-with-per-seat-pricing-to-free
  - /articles/downgrading-an-organization-with-per-repository-pricing-to-free
  - /articles/downgrading-your-organization-to-free
  - /articles/downgrading-your-organization-from-the-business-plan-to-the-team-plan
  - /articles/downgrading-your-organization-from-github-business-cloud-to-the-team-plan
  - /articles/downgrading-your-github-billing-plan
  - /articles/downgrading-your-github-subscription
  - /github/setting-up-and-managing-billing-and-payments-on-github/managing-billing-for-your-github-account/downgrading-your-github-subscription
  - /billing/managing-billing-for-your-github-account/downgrading-your-github-subscription
versions:
  fpt: '*'
  ghec: '*'
topics:
  - Accounts
  - Downgrades
  - Organizations
  - Repositories
  - User account
shortTitle: Downgrade plan
---

## About downgrades

When you downgrade your personal account, organization, or enterprise account's subscription, pricing and account feature changes take effect on your next billing date. Downgrading your plan does not affect other subscriptions or usage-based billing for your account. For more information, see "[AUTOTITLE](/articles/how-does-upgrading-or-downgrading-affect-the-billing-process)."

## Downgrading your personal account's plan

If you downgrade your personal account from {% data variables.product.prodname_pro %} to {% data variables.product.prodname_free_user %}, the account will lose access to advanced code review tools on private repositories. {% data reusables.gated-features.more-info %}

{% data reusables.user-settings.access_settings %}
{% data reusables.user-settings.billing_plans %}
1. Under "Current plan", use the **Edit** drop-down and click **Downgrade to Free**.
   ![Screenshot of the "Current plan" section of the billing settings page. The "Edit" dropdown menu is expanded and highlighted with an orange outline.](/assets/images/help/billing/downgrade-to-free.png)
1. Read the information about the features your personal account will no longer have access to on your next billing date, then click **I understand. Continue with downgrade**.

If you published a {% data variables.product.prodname_pages %} site in a private repository and added a custom domain, remove or update your DNS records before downgrading from {% data variables.product.prodname_pro %} to {% data variables.product.prodname_free_user %}, to avoid the risk of a domain takeover. For more information, see "[AUTOTITLE](/pages/configuring-a-custom-domain-for-your-github-pages-site/managing-a-custom-domain-for-your-github-pages-site)."

## Downgrading your organization's plan

{% data reusables.dotcom_billing.org-billing-perms %}

After an organization's plan is downgraded, the organization will lose access to any functionality that is not included in the new plan. If an advanced feature, such as {% data variables.product.prodname_pages %}, is not available for private repositories in your new plan, consider whether you'd like to retain access to the feature by making affected repositories public. For more information, see "[Setting repository visibility](/articles/setting-repository-visibility)."

Downgrading from {% data variables.product.prodname_ghe_cloud %} disables any SAML settings. If you later purchase {% data variables.product.prodname_enterprise %}, you will need to reconfigure SAML.

{% note %}

**Note:** If your organization is owned by an enterprise account, billing cannot be managed at the organization level. To downgrade, you must remove the organization from the enterprise account first. For more information, see "[AUTOTITLE](/enterprise-cloud@latest/admin/user-management/managing-organizations-in-your-enterprise/removing-organizations-from-your-enterprise)."

{% endnote %}

{% data reusables.organizations.billing-settings %}
1. Under "Current plan", use the **Edit** drop-down and click the downgrade option you want.
   ![Screenshot of the "Current plan" section of the billing settings page. The "Edit" dropdown menu is expanded and highlighted with an orange outline.](/assets/images/help/billing/downgrade-to-free.png)
{% data reusables.dotcom_billing.confirm_cancel_org_plan %}

## Downgrading an organization's plan with legacy per-repository pricing

{% data reusables.dotcom_billing.org-billing-perms %}

{% data reusables.dotcom_billing.switch-legacy-billing %} For more information, see "[AUTOTITLE](/billing/managing-the-plan-for-your-github-account/upgrading-your-accounts-plan#switching-your-organization-from-per-repository-to-per-user-pricing)."

{% data reusables.organizations.billing-settings %}
5. Under "Subscriptions", next to your current plan, select the **Edit** dropdown menu and click **Edit plan**.
1. Under "Billing/Plans", next to the plan you want to change, click **Downgrade**.
1. Enter the reason you're downgrading your account, then click **Downgrade plan**.

## Removing paid seats from your organization

To reduce the number of paid seats your organization uses, you can remove members from your organization or convert members to outside collaborators and give them access to only public repositories. For more information, see:
* "[AUTOTITLE](/organizations/managing-membership-in-your-organization/removing-a-member-from-your-organization)"
* "[AUTOTITLE](/organizations/managing-user-access-to-your-organizations-repositories/managing-outside-collaborators/converting-an-organization-member-to-an-outside-collaborator)"
* "[AUTOTITLE](/organizations/managing-user-access-to-your-organizations-repositories/managing-repository-roles/managing-an-individuals-access-to-an-organization-repository)"

{% data reusables.organizations.billing-settings %}
1. Under "Current plan", next to your current plan, select the **Edit** dropdown menu, then click **Remove seats**.
1. Under "Remove seats", select the number of seats you'd like to downgrade to.
1. Review the information about your new payment on your next billing date, then click **Remove seats**.

{% ifversion ghec %}

## Downgrading your enterprise account's plan

Enterprise accounts are only available with {% data variables.product.prodname_enterprise %}, so it's not possible to downgrade an enterprise account to another plan.

If you want to stop paying for {% data variables.product.prodname_enterprise %} altogether and your company pays via invoice, contact {% data variables.contact.contact_enterprise_sales %}. If your company uses personal accounts on {% data variables.product.prodname_dotcom_the_website %} and pays for {% data variables.product.prodname_enterprise %} by credit card or PayPal, an enterprise owner can delete the enterprise account. For more information, see "[AUTOTITLE](/admin/managing-your-enterprise-account/deleting-an-enterprise-account)."

To downgrade the plan of an individual organization within the enterprise account, you must remove the organization from the enterprise account. Removing an organization from an enterprise automatically downgrades the organization to {% data variables.product.prodname_free_team %}. For more information, see "[AUTOTITLE](/admin/user-management/managing-organizations-in-your-enterprise/removing-organizations-from-your-enterprise)."

## Removing paid seats for your enterprise account

{% data reusables.enterprise-accounts.billing-perms %}

{% note %}

**Note:** If your enterprise account is invoiced, you cannot remove seats on {% data variables.product.prodname_dotcom %}. Instead, contact {% data variables.contact.contact_enterprise_sales %}.

{% endnote %}

{% data reusables.enterprise-accounts.access-enterprise %}
{% data reusables.enterprise-accounts.settings-tab %}
{% data reusables.enterprise-accounts.billing-tab %}
{% data reusables.enterprise-accounts.manage-seats %}
{% endif %}

## Further reading

* "[AUTOTITLE](/get-started/learning-about-github/githubs-plans)"
* "[AUTOTITLE](/billing/managing-the-plan-for-your-github-account/how-does-upgrading-or-downgrading-affect-the-billing-process)"
* "[AUTOTITLE](/billing/managing-your-github-billing-settings/about-billing-on-github)."
* "[AUTOTITLE](/billing/managing-the-plan-for-your-github-account/about-per-user-pricing)"