How to cancel your subscription#

Cancel your APITube subscription from the Subscription page in your dashboard: open it, and on the Current plan card select Cancel. Cancellation is processed through LemonSqueezy (the payment provider) and takes effect right away — your account and your API key return to the Free plan, so no further charges are made. Only the workspace owner can cancel; members see a note that billing is handled by the owner.

The Cancel button appears only when you have an active paid subscription and you are the owner. On the Free plan there is nothing to cancel, so the button is not shown.

Where is the cancel button?#

Open the Subscription page in your dashboard. At the top is the Current plan card, showing your plan badge and, for an active subscription, when it renews. When you are the workspace owner with an active paid plan, that card shows two buttons:

• Manage billing — opens the LemonSqueezy customer portal for your subscription (update your card, download invoices and receipts). See where to find your invoices and billing history.
• Cancel — ends your paid subscription.

Selecting Cancel sends the request to APITube’s billing service, which cancels the subscription in LemonSqueezy and returns you to the Subscription page with a confirmation. There is no separate API call to cancel — cancellation is a dashboard action, not a News API endpoint.

What happens after you cancel?#

Cancelling does several things at once, all handled for you:

• Your subscription is marked cancelled and the cancellation time is recorded.
• Your account plan and your API key are moved to the Free plan, so free-plan limits and the content preview now apply. See what’s included in the free plan for exactly what changes — smaller request pool, a 5-page cap, and truncated article bodies.
• Your email notification subscriptions are turned off.
• No further subscription charges are made through LemonSqueezy.

Because your key drops to the Free plan, article body, body_html and description come back as a preview tagged ...[Upgrade subscription plan] rather than in full. Your key keeps working — it just returns free-plan responses from that point on.

Who is allowed to cancel?#

Only the workspace owner can cancel, because the subscription, quota and billing all belong to the owner. If you are a member, admin or viewer of a shared workspace, the Subscription page shows “Billing is managed by the workspace owner” and hides the Cancel and Manage billing buttons. To cancel a workspace’s plan, the owner has to do it from their own account. Your personal workspace has its own owner (you), so you can always cancel a subscription you started there.

How do you resubscribe after cancelling?#

Resubscribing is self-service. After you cancel, the Subscription page still shows the full plan list below the Current plan card. Pick a plan there to start a new checkout through LemonSqueezy, and your account and API key move back onto that paid plan once payment completes. There is no waiting period — you can subscribe again immediately, and you can also switch plans this way at any time.

Common Questions#

• Does cancelling delete my account or API key?
• Do I keep paid access until the end of the billing period?
• Can I cancel through the API?
• Why don’t I see a Cancel button?

Does cancelling delete my account or API key?#

No. Cancelling only ends the paid subscription. Your account stays, and your API key keeps working — it is simply downgraded to the Free plan, so it returns free-plan responses (a smaller request pool and preview-length article content). To remove the key itself you would revoke it separately in API Keys; cancelling the subscription does not delete it.

Do I keep paid access until the end of the billing period?#

When you cancel, APITube moves your account and API key to the Free plan as part of the cancellation, so your key starts returning free-plan responses. Cancellation also stops future charges through LemonSqueezy. If you need full article content again, resubscribe from the plan list on the Subscription page.

Can I cancel through the API?#

No. There is no News API endpoint to cancel a subscription — cancellation is a billing action in the dashboard, handled through LemonSqueezy, not part of the News API. Use the Cancel button on the Subscription page (or the LemonSqueezy customer portal reached via Manage billing).

Why don’t I see a Cancel button?#

The Cancel button shows only when two things are true: you have an active paid subscription, and you are the workspace owner. On the Free plan there is no subscription to cancel, so nothing is shown. As a non-owner in a shared workspace, billing is handled by the owner, and the page tells you so instead of showing the button.