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How do I cancel Databricks?
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Short answer
Cancel a pay-as-you-go Databricks plan on AWS from the account console: open Settings, choose Manage your plan, then Cancel plan, and confirm Cancel plan. Cancellation is permanent, ends workspace access immediately, and deletes Customer Content within 30 days. Databricks does not document a standard refund for consumed pay-as-you-go usage.
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What you are cancelling
Data and AI lakehouse platform billed in Databricks Units plus your cloud provider's compute and storage, with Premium and Enterprise platform tiers. This guide covers every place the subscription can live - the website and team plans - plus what happens to refunds, pausing and your data afterwards.
Step-by-step instructions
The steps above are the AWS pay-as-you-go flow. Cancelling Databricks in AWS Marketplace only removes that payment method.
1
Export data and shut down billable resources
Databricks recommends terminating compute, deleting Unity Catalog metastores, terminating associated AWS resources, exporting notebooks and data, and deleting all workspaces first.
2
Open Settings in the account console
Sign in to accounts.cloud.databricks.com as an account admin. In the sidebar, click Settings.
3
Cancel plan
Click the Manage your plan dropdown, then select Cancel plan. In the confirmation dialog, click Cancel plan.
Cancelling the plan is permanent. You cannot reactivate it, and all workspaces are deleted.
Contract and committed-use accounts are cancelled with the Databricks account team, not the Cancel plan control.
1
Contract accounts contact the account team
If you have a contract account, the self-serve Cancel plan page does not apply. Contact your Databricks account team.
2
Google Cloud uses Marketplace Cancel purchase
On GCP, cancel from the Databricks listing on Google Cloud Marketplace: manage orders, confirm the Google order number matches the account console, then Cancel purchase. Contact Databricks support afterwards if you also need the account deleted.
3
Delete the account to reuse the same email
Cancelling the plan blocks signup with the same email. To use that email again, ask the account team or file a ticket at help.databricks.com to delete the account.
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Refunds, downgrades, pausing and your data
Four questions people ask before they cancelCan I get my money back?
Databricks does not document a standard refund of already consumed pay-as-you-go DBU usage. The Master Cloud Services Agreement refunds unused prepaid fees if Databricks cannot remediate non-conforming services or if an Order ends because of Databricks' material breach.
Is there a cheaper way to stay?
New accounts start on Premium and can upgrade to Enterprise from Settings. Databricks does not document a self-serve downgrade from Enterprise to Premium. Free Edition is a separate product, not what you get after cancelling a paid plan.
Can I pause instead of cancel?
No account-level pause is documented. Terminate compute to stop DBU consumption. Cancelling the plan is permanent and cannot be reactivated.
What happens to my account data?
After you cancel, you no longer have access to workspaces, notebooks or data. Customer Content in those workspaces is deleted within 30 days. Workspace deletion is not reversible. Databricks does not clean up attached cloud resources for you.
Frequently asked questions
How do I cancel Databricks on AWS?
In the account console, open Settings, choose Manage your plan, then Cancel plan, and confirm Cancel plan.
Does cancelling AWS Marketplace cancel Databricks?
No. That only removes AWS Marketplace as a payment method in the Databricks account.
When do I lose access?
When you cancel the plan. Access to workspaces, notebooks and data ends. Customer Content is deleted within 30 days.
Can I come back on the same email?
Not after cancelling the plan, unless Databricks later deletes the account after you ask the account team or help.databricks.com.
What if I have a contract, not pay-as-you-go?
Contact your Databricks account team. The self-serve Cancel plan page does not apply.
Is there a fixed monthly USD price?
No. Databricks bills per-second DBU usage plus your cloud provider's infrastructure.
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