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articles/cost-management-billing/manage/cancel-azure-subscription.md

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title: Cancel your Azure subscription
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description: Describes how to cancel your Azure subscription, like the Free Trial subscription
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author: bandersmsft
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ms.reviewer: amberb
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ms.reviewer: sgautam
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tags: billing
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ms.service: cost-management-billing
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ms.subservice: billing
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ms.topic: conceptual
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ms.date: 04/11/2023
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ms.date: 05/25/2023
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ms.author: banders
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If you cancel an Azure Support plan, you're billed for the rest of the month. Cancelling a support plan doesn't result in a prorated refund. For more information, see [Azure support plans](https://azure.microsoft.com/support/plans/).
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Instead of canceling a subscription, you can remove all of its resources to [prevent unwanted charges](#prevent-unwanted-charges).
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## Who can cancel a subscription?
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The following table describes the permission required to cancel a subscription.
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> - The subscription is automatically deleted 90 days after you cancel a subscription.
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> - If you have deleted all resources but the Delete your subscription page shows that you still have active resources, you might have active *hidden resources*. You can't delete a subscription if you have active hidden resources. To delete them, navigate to **Subscriptions** > select the subscription > **Resources**. At the top of the page, select **Manage view** and then select **Show hidden types**. Then, delete the resources.
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## Prevent unwanted charges
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To prevent unwanted charges on a subscription, you can go to **Resources** menu for the subscription and select the resources that you want to delete. If don't want to have any charges for the subscription, select all of the subscription resources and then **Delete** them. The subscription essentially becomes an empty container with no charges.
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:::image type="content" source="./media/cancel-azure-subscription/delete-resources.png" alt-text="Screenshot showing delete resources." lightbox="./media/cancel-azure-subscription/delete-resources.png" :::
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If you have a support plan, you might continue to get charged for it. To delete support a plan, navigate to **Cost Management + Billing** and and select **Recurring charges**. Select the support plan and turn off auto-renewal.
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:::image type="content" source="./media/cancel-azure-subscription/change-renewal-settings.png" alt-text="Screenshot showing Change renewal settings." lightbox="./media/cancel-azure-subscription/change-renewal-settings.png" :::
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## Reactivate a subscription
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