Downgrading a sponsorship

You can downgrade your sponsorship to a lower tier.

When you downgrade a sponsorship, the change will become effective on your next billing date. There are no refunds for payments for GitHub Sponsors.

Downgrading a sponsorship

  1. On GitHub, navigate to the sponsored account's profile.

  2. Navigate to your sponsorship dashboard for the account.

    • If you're sponsoring a personal account, under the user's name, click Sponsoring.

      Screenshot of the sidebar of @octocat's profile page. A button, labeled with a heart icon and "Sponsoring", is outlined in dark orange.

    • If you're sponsoring an organization, to the right of the organization's name, click Sponsoring.

  3. Optionally, to manage a sponsorship on behalf of an organization, on the right side of the page, use the Sponsoring as dropdown menu, then click the organization.

  4. On the right side of the page, beside "Select a tier", review the sponsorship tiers available. If more than one type of tier is available, "Monthly" tiers are shown by default. Click One-time to show the tiers for one-time payments.

  5. To the right of the tier you want, click Select.

    Alternatively, if you want to select a custom amount, enter the sponsorship amount in the text field provided, then click Select.

  6. Click Update sponsorship.

For information about canceling a sponsorship, see Canceling a sponsorship.