How to Cancel Databricks
A 9-step walkthrough with real screenshots from the live cancel flow.
Quick answer
Sign in to the Databricks account console as an admin, open Settings › Subscription & billing, click the Manage your plan dropdown, choose Cancel plan, and confirm. This is permanent and irreversible — it deletes all your workspaces, notebooks, and data, and you can't reuse the same email to sign up again. Terminate your compute and export anything you want to keep first. Only pay-as-you-go accounts cancel here; contract accounts must contact their Databricks account team.
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Step-by-step instructions
Back up your work and terminate compute first
Cancellation deletes everything — workspaces, notebooks, dashboards, and any data in your account. Before you start, export any notebooks or data you want to keep, terminate all running compute, and (if you use them) delete your Unity Catalog metastores. This also stops the meter: Databricks and your cloud provider keep billing for resources left running, so shutting them down now prevents surprise charges after you cancel.
Sign in to the account console as an admin
Go to accounts.cloud.databricks.com and sign in. Only a Databricks account administrator can cancel a plan — if you don't see the billing settings below, you're not an admin on the account.
Open Settings then Subscription & billing
Click Settings in the left sidebar, then open the Subscription & billing tab. You'll see your current Plan (new accounts are on Premium by default) alongside the Enterprise card and your saved payment methods.
Click Manage your plan, then Cancel plan
On your current plan card, click the Manage your plan dropdown. A small menu opens with a red Cancel plan option — click it.
Confirm the cancellation
A "Confirm plan cancellation" dialog warns that all your Databricks workspaces will be deleted and the action is not reversible. If you're sure, click the red Cancel plan button. (Clicking the plain Cancel button or the X just closes the dialog and keeps your plan.)
Confirm the plan shows Cancelled
Your Subscription page now shows the plan status as Cancelled, with a note that to create a new account you must sign up again. That's it — your subscription is terminated and Databricks will not bill you for further usage.
If you pay through AWS Marketplace
You still cancel in the Databricks account console using the steps above — you cannot cancel the Databricks subscription from AWS Marketplace. Unsubscribing in AWS Marketplace only removes it as a payment method in Databricks; it does not end your plan.
If you have a contract (committed-use) account
The self-service Cancel plan flow only applies to pay-as-you-go accounts. If you signed a Databricks contract or committed-use agreement, contact your Databricks account team for billing and subscription changes — there is no self-service cancel button.
To reuse the same email later, delete the account
After cancelling, you can't sign up again with the same email address. If you need to reuse that email, file a ticket at help.databricks.com asking to fully delete the account. Cancelling ends billing; deleting frees up the email.
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