How to cancel Cloudflare subscription.

This is the route Cloudflare documents, and it covers account-level products such as Workers Paid, R2, Load Balancing and Cache Reserve as well as domain plans.

1. Log in to the Cloudflare dashboard.
2. Go to Manage Account, then Billing, then the Subscriptions tab.
3. Find the subscription in the list and check its renewal date, shown as Renews on a date.
4. Select Cancel for that subscription.
5. Choose a reason for the cancellation when Cloudflare asks, and confirm.
6. Return to the Subscriptions list and confirm the entry now shows as cancelling or scheduled to end rather than renewing.

Cloudflare states that cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing cycle and that you keep access to the paid features until then. Some subscriptions have no separate Cancel action and are ended by switching that product to its Free tier instead.

Plans are billed per domain, so a Pro or Business plan is attached to one domain and each domain is a separate line. Moving the plan to Free is how you stop paying for that domain without removing it from Cloudflare.

1. Open Manage Account, Billing, Subscriptions in the dashboard.
2. Find the domain plan under Active Subscriptions and select Change.
3. Select the Free plan.
4. Confirm the change, and check the Subscriptions list reflects it.
5. Repeat for every other domain on a paid plan: a plan on one domain does not cover another.

Cloudflare states a downgrade takes effect at the end of the current billing period and that you keep the higher tier until then. Cloudflare also advises making changes at least 24 hours before your billing date.

A registered domain is a separate commitment from anything else on the account, and this is the one place where cancelling costs you something rather than saving it. Turning auto-renew off does not refund anything, it lets the name expire.

1. Decide first whether you want to keep the name. If you do, transfer it to another registrar rather than letting it lapse.
2. Open the domain in the Cloudflare dashboard under Manage Domains and find the auto-renew setting for that domain.
3. Turn auto-renew off. Cloudflare states its first renewal attempt happens roughly 30 days before expiration, so do this at least 30 days before the expiry date if you want to avoid the charge.
4. Check the domain's expiration date and note it: the name stays active until that date and then lapses.
5. If you want to keep the name, start the transfer out before expiry instead. Cloudflare states a domain cannot be transferred during the Redemption Grace Period.

Cloudflare states that registration, renewal and transfer fees go straight to the registry and are non-refundable, and that all renewals are final. It also states that an expired domain enters a 30-day Redemption Grace Period during which restoration may be possible, usually with a fee.

Removing a domain is heavier than downgrading it. Cloudflare states that removing a domain cancels all active subscriptions on that domain, and those are not refunded.

1. Point your nameservers away from Cloudflare at your registrar first, or the domain stops resolving when it is removed.
2. Delete any Logpush jobs on the domain, remove DS records at the registrar and disable DNSSEC if you enabled it.
3. In the dashboard, open the domain's Overview page.
4. Find Advanced Actions and select Remove from Cloudflare, then confirm.
5. Check the Subscriptions page afterwards: account-level add-ons are not attached to a single domain and survive the removal.

Cloudflare states that removing a domain does not affect the domain's registration with your registrar, and that re-adding the domain later means repurchasing any subscriptions it had.

Only worth doing once everything above is finished. Cloudflare lists the prerequisites, and an account with a live subscription or domain will not delete cleanly.

1. Cancel every subscription and add-on on the account.
2. Remove each domain from Cloudflare and remove Cloudflare's nameservers at your registrar.
3. For any Cloudflare Registrar domain, disable auto-renew or transfer it out first.
4. Download the invoices you need for accounting: Cloudflare states billing information is removed with the account.
5. Delete your payment information, then open your profile settings in the dashboard and choose to delete the user profile, and confirm.

Cloudflare states the deletion is irreversible and that all domains, subscriptions and billing information on the account are removed. On an account using Single Sign-On, a super administrator may need to perform the deletion.