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| Downgrading your GitHub subscription | You can downgrade the subscription for any type of account on {% data variables.location.product_location %} at any time. |
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Downgrade subscription |
Downgrading your {% data variables.product.product_name %} subscription
When you downgrade your personal account, organization, or enterprise account's subscription, pricing and account feature changes take effect on your next billing date. Changes to your paid account subscription does not affect subscriptions or payments for other paid {% data variables.product.prodname_dotcom %} features. For more information, see "AUTOTITLE."
Downgrading your personal account's subscription
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 %}
- Under "Current plan", use the Edit drop-down and click Downgrade to Free.
- 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."
Downgrading your organization's subscription
{% data reusables.dotcom_billing.org-billing-perms %}
After an organization's subscription is downgraded, the organization will lose access to any functionality that is not included its 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."
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."
{% endnote %}
{% data reusables.organizations.billing-settings %}
- Under "Current plan", use the Edit drop-down and click the downgrade option you want.
{% data reusables.dotcom_billing.confirm_cancel_org_plan %}
Downgrading an organization's subscription with legacy per-repository pricing
{% data reusables.dotcom_billing.org-billing-perms %}
{% data reusables.dotcom_billing.switch-legacy-billing %} For more information, see "AUTOTITLE."
{% data reusables.organizations.billing-settings %} 5. Under "Subscriptions", next to your current subscription, select the Edit dropdown menu and click Edit plan.
- Under "Billing/Plans", next to the plan you want to change, click Downgrade.
- 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:
{% data reusables.organizations.billing-settings %}
- Under "Current plan", next to your current plan, select the Edit dropdown menu, then click Remove seats.
- Under "Remove seats", select the number of seats you'd like to downgrade to.
- Review the information about your new payment on your next billing date, then click Remove seats.
{% ifversion ghec %}
Downgrading your enterprise account's subscription
Enterprise accounts are only available with {% data variables.product.prodname_enterprise %}, so it's not possible to downgrade an enterprise account to another plan.
To downgrade the subscription of an individual organization within the enterprise account, you must remove the organization from the enterprise account first. For more information, see "AUTOTITLE."
If you want to stop paying for {% data variables.product.prodname_enterprise %} altogether, you can contact our sales team. All organizations owned by the enterprise account will removed from the enterprise, and the enterprise account will be frozen.
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 %}