How to Cancel SoundCloud

No, as long as you cancel before your next billing date. You keep your plan's features until the end of the period you've paid for, and your Subscriptions page shows that date next to EXPIRES. After it, a Go, Go+ or DJ plan reverts to free, ad-supported SoundCloud and an Artist or Artist Pro plan to the free Basic plan. Monthly and yearly plans both renew automatically, so a forgotten yearly plan bills the whole year again. If SoundCloud raises your price, its terms promise at least six weeks' notice before the new price applies, which is your window to cancel.

Usually not. SoundCloud's help center says it does not offer refunds for delivered subscriptions: cancelling stops the next charge and leaves you the time you've paid for. Deleting your account doesn't change that, because SoundCloud's terms say it can't refund the unexpired part of a subscription if you end the agreement early. Buyers in Europe have a 14-day right to withdraw from a plan bought directly from SoundCloud (its Artist terms name the EU, EEA and UK): write to contact@soundcloud.com or to SoundCloud in Berlin, and it refunds you, minus a share for the time you used if you started using the plan straight away. Plans bought through Apple or Google Play are refunded by the store. If a yearly Artist Pro charge was a mistake, open a support ticket at once: r/soundcloud has several 2025 and 2026 posts about accidental yearly charges and slow replies.

Nothing is deleted. On Go, Go+ or DJ you keep ad-free and offline listening until the plan expires; then the account reverts to free, ad-supported SoundCloud, which has no offline listening. On Artist or Artist Pro, your oldest uploads over the new limit (180 minutes on Artist, 120 on Basic) are hidden from listeners but stay visible to you on your Tracks page, and they reappear with their stats and comments if you subscribe again. Releases distributed or monetized through SoundCloud for Artists are taken down from other services and demonetized 30 days after the plan ends; if you renew after that, SoundCloud says they should be reinstated within 7 days.

Cancel with the store, not on soundcloud.com. On iPhone: Settings, your name, Subscriptions, SoundCloud. On Android: Google Play, your profile icon, Payments & subscriptions, Subscriptions, SoundCloud. SoundCloud says it can't help with cancellations or refunds for subscriptions bought on iOS devices, so refund requests go to Apple or Google too. Go+ for Students and the Artist Pro discount on Go+ are sold only on the web, so to move to either you have to cancel the store plan, let it expire and buy again on soundcloud.com.

Yes. Go and Go+ come with a free trial on your first purchase (7 days for Go and 30 for Go+, Go+ for Students and DJ in the US when we checked), and SoundCloud says you can cancel at any point in it; if you don't, the monthly price is charged when the trial ends. Cancel the same way, from Edit on your Subscriptions page, on a computer: SoundCloud's trial article says it can't be done from a mobile device. A 0.00 or 1.00 entry on your statement when the trial starts is a card check that SoundCloud says goes straight back. There is no second trial: if you've had Go before, a new subscription is charged at once, and there is no trial at all in Québec.

SoundCloud has no switch from monthly to yearly. Its help center says to cancel the monthly plan, wait for it to expire, then buy the yearly one. That only applies to Artist and Artist Pro, the plans sold yearly on the web, and it saves a lot: in the US, Artist Pro is $15.99 a month or $99 a year, and Artist $6.25 a month or $39 a year. The same cancel-and-wait route is how you move from a card to PayPal. To rejoin, buy a plan again from soundcloud.com; hidden tracks reappear. Two things don't carry over: SoundCloud says previous pricing will not apply to a new purchase, so an older, cheaper rate is gone once you cancel, and a returning Go subscriber gets no free trial.