How to Cancel Canva Teams in 2026 (The $10/User Design Tool Your Team Barely Uses)
Updated 2026-02-19 · 5 min read
🎨 The Generous Free Tier You Forgot About
Canva Free gives you 250,000+ templates, 100+ design types, 5GB storage, and real-time collaboration. Canva Teams charges $10/user/month for brand kits, Magic Resize, and premium stock photos. If your team makes social media posts and presentations, the free tier is almost certainly enough.
Canva Pricing (2026)
Free: 250K+ templates, 5GB storage, collaboration, basic AI features
Go to canva.com → click your avatar → Account Settings
Go to Billing & plans
Click Cancel subscription or Downgrade
Choose to downgrade to Canva Free or Canva Pro (individual)
Team members keep their personal Canva accounts on the free tier
⚠️ Premium Content Lockout
Designs using premium stock photos, fonts, or elements will show watermarks after downgrading. Before canceling, export all designs as PNG/PDF to preserve them without watermarks. Your own uploaded photos and custom designs remain accessible.
Keep: All your designs (with watermarks on premium elements), 250K+ free templates, basic AI tools, collaboration, 5GB storage
Workaround: Download your brand assets (logos, hex codes, font names) to a shared doc before canceling — you can manually apply them in the free tier
The Canva Free Challenge
Try this before canceling: have your team use ONLY Canva Free features for 2 weeks. Track what they actually miss:
Most teams miss: Nothing meaningful for basic social media and presentations
Power users miss: Magic Resize (manually resize instead — 2 extra minutes)
Design teams miss: Premium stock photos (use Unsplash/Pexels — free, high quality)
Brand managers miss: Brand Kit (create a shared Google Doc with brand colors/fonts instead)
Free Stock Photo Alternatives
The main reason people pay for Canva Teams is premium stock photos. These free libraries are equally good:
Unsplash: 3.5M+ free photos, no attribution required, commercial use OK
Pexels: 3M+ free photos and videos, commercial use OK
Pixabay: 2.5M+ free assets including illustrations and vectors
Canva's own free library: Still has millions of free photos and elements
💡 One Pro, Rest Free
If only one person (the marketer/designer) needs premium features, get them Canva Pro ($13/mo individual) instead of paying for the whole team. They can export designs and share them with teammates via links. Total: $13/month instead of $30-100+/month.
🔍 Design Tool Audit
Canva Teams + Adobe Express + Figma + Sketch — design subscriptions stack up fast. Upload your bank statement to JustCancel to find every design tool charge and consolidate to one platform.