How to cancel Ghost
HardAbout 30 minutesChecked against published steps 3 September 2026
Opens Ghost's own cancellation page. You will need to be signed in to your Ghost account.
Cancelling Ghost
About 30 minutes · Hard
Export your content and your member list FIRST
Ghost gives you a full JSON export. Take it before the site goes.
Move your Stripe connection if members pay you
Your paying members' subscriptions live in your own Stripe account.
Sign in at account.ghost.org and cancel the plan
Point your domain somewhere else
- Notice period
- None — cancelling takes effect straight away.
- How you will know it worked
- Confirmation email.
- What happens after you cancel
- Ghost is unusual and it works in your favour: the software is free and open source, so cancelling Ghost(Pro) means giving up the HOSTING, not the product. Export your content — Ghost provides a complete JSON export including members — and you can run the identical site yourself or move it to another host. If you have PAYING MEMBERS, deal with them before anything else. Their subscriptions run through your own Stripe account, which is yours and keeps existing, but the site that serves them will stop. Ending the hosting without moving the site means people keep paying for something that no longer loads. That is a refund problem and a reputation problem at once. Take the export and the member list, sort out Stripe, move the domain, and only then cancel. The plan runs to the end of the period already paid for.
- How we checked
- Checked against Ghost's published instructions on 3 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.