How to Cancel Render

A 11-step walkthrough with real screenshots from the live cancel flow.

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Quick answer

Render bills in two parts: a fixed workspace plan fee and usage-based compute on top. To stop the subscription, open Billing → Update Plan, pick the free Hobby plan, type sudo downgrade workspace <name> to confirm, and click Confirm. Downgrading does not delete your running services — compute keeps billing until you remove them, so delete paid services (or the whole workspace) to actually stop spending. There is no plan-fee refund; compute is prorated to the second.

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Step-by-step instructions

1

Understand what you are canceling

Render charges two separate things: a monthly <strong>workspace plan</strong> fee (Hobby is free, Pro is $25/mo, Scale is $499/mo) and <strong>compute</strong> for the services you run (instances, Postgres, Key Value), billed by usage and prorated to the second. Downgrading your plan only stops the plan fee — it does not stop compute charges for services that are still running. If your goal is to stop all spending, plan to also delete your paid services (or delete the workspace) after the downgrade.

2

Open the Billing page

In the Render Dashboard, open the workspace dropdown in the top-left corner and select <strong>Billing</strong>. The Plan section at the top shows your Current Plan with an <strong>Update Plan</strong> button. (In the example below the workspace is on the Professional plan — Render renamed the paid plans on 2026-04-23, so newer accounts will see Pro/Scale instead of Professional/Organization.)

Render Billing page with the Plan section showing the current Professional plan and an Update Plan button, plus Payment Method below
3

Click Update Plan and review the options

Click <strong>Update Plan</strong> to open the "Change plan" page. You'll see the plan cards: <strong>Hobby</strong> ($0, single free seat), <strong>Pro / Professional</strong>, <strong>Scale / Organization</strong>, and <strong>Enterprise</strong> (custom). Each paid plan is priced "per user/month plus compute costs" on legacy accounts, or a flat monthly fee on the new plans. To cancel the paid subscription, you want Hobby.

Render Change plan page showing Hobby at $0 and Professional (current plan) at $19 per user per month, both noting plus compute costs
4

Select the Hobby plan

Click <strong>Select plan</strong> on the <strong>Hobby</strong> card. It flips to "New plan" and the highlighted border moves to Hobby. Hobby is free but limited: a single seat, a limit of 2 custom domains, 1 project and 2 environments, a 7-day window for logs and metrics, and (on the new plan) a cap of 25 services per workspace.

Render Change plan page with the Hobby card selected and marked New plan, showing Plan selected on Hobby
5

Scroll past the higher tiers and the compute note

Below Hobby and Pro you'll see <strong>Organization / Scale</strong> ($29 per user/month on legacy, $499/mo flat on new plans) and <strong>Enterprise</strong> (custom). A footnote spells out the compute model: "Pay only for provisioned resources, with transparent pricing based on CPU and service activation prorated to the second." Confirm your payment method is correct, then scroll to the bottom and click <strong>Select plan</strong>.

Render Change plan page showing Organization at $29 per user per month and Enterprise custom pricing, with the compute-costs footnote and Payment Method section
6

Read the downgrade warnings

Render shows a "New plan summary" comparing your current plan to Hobby, then a <strong>Confirm downgrade</strong> section that warns: <strong>"Projects and environments will be removed and services will become ungrouped. Your services will not incur any downtime."</strong> and, if applicable, that any Metric Streams to Better Stack will be removed. Your services keep running — they just lose their project/environment grouping. Read these before continuing.

Render Confirm downgrade screen comparing Professional to Hobby, listing that projects and environments will be removed and services ungrouped, with an empty confirmation text box
7

Type the confirmation phrase and click Confirm

Render requires a typed confirmation gate: type <code>sudo downgrade workspace &lt;your-workspace-name&gt;</code> (e.g. <code>sudo downgrade workspace Acme</code>) into the text box exactly as shown. This enables the black <strong>Confirm</strong> button. Click <strong>Confirm</strong> to apply the downgrade.

Render Confirm downgrade screen with sudo downgrade workspace Acme typed into the text box and the Confirm button now enabled
8

Verify you are on the Hobby plan

You're returned to the Billing page, where the Plan section now shows <strong>Hobby</strong> as your Current Plan ("For hobbyists and students"). The paid workspace fee stops from here. The "Upgrade" button reappears in the top bar if you ever want to go back.

Render Billing page now showing Hobby as the Current Plan after the downgrade completed
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If this applies to you

Stop compute charges — delete or suspend your services

This is the step that actually ends spending. The plan downgrade stops the plan fee, but every running web service, background worker, cron job, Postgres database, or Key Value instance keeps billing compute by the second. Open each service from the dashboard and delete it (or suspend it) once you no longer need it. Delete paid datastores too — those bill independently of your services.

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Fully close the workspace (optional)

If you want to remove the workspace entirely rather than keep a free Hobby workspace, delete all of its services and datastores first (so no final compute is charged), then delete the workspace from <strong>Workspace Settings</strong> in the dashboard. Only an <strong>Admin</strong> can delete a workspace — Billing, Developer, Contributor, and Viewer roles cannot. If you only want to leave a shared workspace without deleting it, use <strong>Leave workspace</strong> instead.

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If this applies to you

A note on the 2026 plan migration

If you're on a legacy per-seat plan (Professional $19/seat or Organization $29/seat), Render is migrating all legacy workspaces to the new flat plans (Pro $25/mo, Scale $499/mo) automatically on <strong>August 1, 2026</strong>. Moving from a legacy plan to a new plan is permanent — you cannot move back. If you plan to downgrade to Hobby anyway, doing it now avoids being on a paid plan when migration runs.

Frequently Asked Questions

No — only the workspace plan fee. Render bills in two parts: the monthly plan fee and usage-based compute for your running services. Downgrading to the free Hobby plan stops the plan fee, but any web services, workers, cron jobs, or databases you keep running continue to bill compute by the second. To stop all spending, delete or suspend those paid services (and any paid datastores) after downgrading, or delete the workspace entirely.

When you downgrade to Hobby, Render removes the project/environment grouping that organizes your services and your services become "ungrouped." The services themselves are NOT deleted and incur no downtime — they keep running. Render states this plainly on the confirmation screen: "Your services will not incur any downtime." You're losing the organizational structure, not the apps.

It's a deliberate confirmation gate to prevent accidental downgrades. The Confirm button stays disabled until you type the exact phrase — sudo downgrade workspace followed by your workspace name (for example, sudo downgrade workspace Acme) — into the text box. Type it exactly as shown on the screen, then click Confirm.

There is no documented proration refund of the workspace plan fee — you simply stop being billed the plan fee going forward. Compute is different: it is prorated to the second ("transparent pricing based on CPU and service activation prorated to the second"), so you only pay for the exact time a paid service was provisioned. Deleting services promptly minimizes your final compute invoice.

The free Hobby plan gives you a single seat, a limit of 2 custom domains, 1 project and 2 environments, a 7-day window for logs and metrics, and basic logs and metrics. The current Hobby plan also caps each workspace at 25 total services; Render emails you if you exceed that. If those limits are too tight, the next tier up is Pro at $25/month flat.

Delete all of the workspace's services and datastores first so no final compute is charged, then delete the workspace from Workspace Settings in the Render Dashboard. Only an Admin can delete a workspace — Billing, Developer, Contributor, and Viewer roles cannot. If you just want to leave a shared workspace without removing it, use Leave workspace instead, which is available to every role.

On April 23, 2026, Render replaced per-seat pricing with flat monthly fees. Professional ($19 per member/month) became Pro ($25/month flat, unlimited members), and Organization ($29 per member/month) became Scale ($499/month flat, unlimited members). Hobby stays free. Legacy workspaces auto-migrate to the corresponding new plan on August 1, 2026, and the move is permanent. Compute pricing did not change.
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