How to cancel Coursera
Opens Coursera's own cancellation page. You will need to be signed in to your Coursera account.
How are you billed?
Coursera can be cancelled direct, Apple and Google Play — and the steps are completely different. Check the last charge on your statement if you are not sure.
Cancelling Coursera directly
About 4 minutes · Easy
Sign in at coursera.org
Open Settings, then Subscriptions
Select Cancel next to the plan and confirm
- Notice period
- None — cancelling takes effect straight away.
- How you will know it worked
- Confirmation email.
- What happens after you cancel
- Certificates you have already earned are yours permanently and stay on your account and your LinkedIn whatever you do next. Course progress is saved too. Access runs to the end of the billing period, and after that a course you completed on the subscription keeps archive access — videos, readings and practice exercises, but not the graded assessments. If you want to keep referring to the material afterwards you can re-enrol in the same course on the free audit option. The thing to finish before the date is any graded work, because that is the part that goes.
- How we checked
- Checked against Coursera's published instructions on 1 September 2026.Nobody has walked this flow, so treat the steps as their account of it rather than ours.
Cancelling Coursera through Apple
About 3 minutes · Easy
Open Settings on your iPhone or iPad, then tap your name
On the web, go to apps.apple.com/account/subscriptions
Tap Subscriptions
Select the subscription, then Cancel Subscription
- Notice period
- At least 1 day before your renewal date. Apple requires cancellation at least 24 hours before the renewal date.
- How you will know it worked
- Confirmation email.
- What happens after you cancel
- You keep access until the end of the period you have already paid for — Apple does not refund the unused part, and cancelling early does not end it sooner. The subscription disappears from your Apple subscriptions list on that date. Two things this does not do: it does not close your account with the service, so anything stored there stays where it is, and it does not get you a refund. Refunds for Apple-billed subscriptions are asked for at reportaproblem.apple.com, not from the merchant, who genuinely cannot issue one.
- How we checked
- Checked against Coursera's published instructions on 1 September 2026.Nobody has walked this flow, so treat the steps as their account of it rather than ours.
Cancelling Coursera through Google Play
About 3 minutes · Easy
Open the Play Store, tap your profile, then Payments & subscriptions
Tap Subscriptions and select the app
Tap Cancel subscription and confirm
- Notice period
- None — cancelling takes effect straight away.
- How you will know it worked
- Confirmation email.
- What happens after you cancel
- You keep access until the end of the period you have already paid for. Google Play does not refund the remainder, and the subscription shows as cancelled with its end date until then. Cancelling here stops Google charging you; it does not close your account with the service or delete anything in it. A refund, if you want one, is requested through Google Play — and only within a short window, after which Google sends you to the developer.
- How we checked
- Checked against Coursera's published instructions on 1 September 2026.Nobody has walked this flow, so treat the steps as their account of it rather than ours.
What else are you paying for?
Find possible recurring subscriptions in your bank statement. Cancel OS reads a statement export you give it and flags the charges that look recurring, for you to confirm.