Downgrading your personal account's plan

If you downgrade your personal account from GitHub Pro to GitHub Free, the account will lose access to advanced code review tools on private repositories. For more information, seeGitHub’s plans.

1. In the upper-right corner of any page on GitHub, click your profile picture, then click Settings.
2. In the "Access" section of the sidebar, click Billing and licensing, then clickAdditional billing details.
3. Under "Current plan", use theEdit drop-down and clickDowngrade to Free.
   
4. Read the information about the features your personal account will no longer have access to on your next billing date, then clickI understand. Continue with downgrade.

If you published a GitHub Pages site in a private repository and added a custom domain, remove or update your DNS records before downgrading from GitHub Pro to GitHub Free, to avoid the risk of a domain takeover. For more information, seeManaging a custom domain for your GitHub Pages site.

Downgrading your organization's plan

Organization owners and billing managers can access or change billing settings for an organization.

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 GitHub 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, seeSetting repository visibility.

Downgrading from GitHub Enterprise Cloud disables any SAML settings. If you later purchase GitHub Enterprise, you will need to reconfigure SAML.

1. In the upper-right corner of any page on GitHub, click your profile picture, then click Settings.
2. In the "Access" section of the sidebar, click Organizations.
3. Next to the organization, clickSettings.
4. If you are an organization owner or billing manager, in the "Access" section of the sidebar, click Billing and licensing.
5. Under "Current plan", use theEdit drop-down and click the downgrade option you want.
   
6. Read the information about the features your organization will no longer have access to on your next billing date, then clickI understand. Downgrade my organization.

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

Organization owners and billing managers can access or change billing settings for an organization.

If your organization is using a legacy per-repository billing plan, you can switch to per-user pricing at any time. You will not be able to switch back to repository pricing once you've upgraded to per-user pricing. For more information, seeUpgrading your account's plan.

1. In the upper-right corner of any page on GitHub, click your profile picture, then click Settings.
2. In the "Access" section of the sidebar, click Organizations.
3. Next to the organization, clickSettings.
4. If you are an organization owner or billing manager, in the "Access" section of the sidebar, click Billing and licensing.
5. Under "Subscriptions", next to your current plan, select theEdit dropdown menu and clickEdit plan.
6. Under "Billing/Plans", next to the plan you want to change, clickDowngrade.
7. Enter the reason you're downgrading your account, then clickDowngrade plan.

Downgrading your enterprise account's plan

Enterprise accounts are only available with GitHub Enterprise, so it's not possible to downgrade an enterprise account to another plan.

If you want to stop paying for GitHub Enterprise altogether and your company pays via invoice, contactGitHub's Sales team.

If you have a self-serve enterprise account, an enterprise account owner can:

1. Remove or delete all organizations from the enterprise. Removing an organization from an enterprise automatically downgrades the organization to GitHub Free. SeeRemoving organizations from your enterprise.
2. Review and remove any remaining unaffiliated members from the enterprise. Depending on your policy settings, members who don't belong to any organizations may remain in your enterprise as unaffiliated members. To fully close the account, remove these unaffiliated members.
3. Delete the enterprise account to cancel the GitHub Enterprise subscription. SeeDeleting an enterprise account.

Further reading

• Managing user licenses for an organization or enterprise
• GitHub’s plans
• Impact of changing your plan on billing
• How GitHub billing works.
• People who consume a license in an organization