How to Cancel Wix Premium (2026 Guide) — Escape the Website Builder That Holds Your Site Hostage

Updated 2026-02-28 · 5 min read

Wix Premium plans range from $17 to $159/month — and here's the kicker: you cannot export your Wix website. Unlike WordPress or Squarespace, there's no way to download your site and move it somewhere else. If you cancel, your site disappears. This is by design. Here's how to cancel and how to migrate your content before you do.

🔒 The Lock-In Problem

Wix uses a proprietary builder — your site only exists inside Wix. No export, no download, no migration tool. If you cancel, you'd need to rebuild your entire site from scratch on another platform. This is the #1 reason people stay on Wix even when they're unhappy with it.

How to Cancel Wix Premium

  1. Log into wix.com/my-account
  2. Go to Premium Plans
  3. Find the plan you want to cancel
  4. Click Cancel Plan (look for small text, not a prominent button)
  5. They'll show warnings about what you lose — review carefully
  6. Confirm cancellation
⚠️ Domain Name Warning

If you got a "free domain" with your Wix plan, canceling means you lose that domain unless you transfer it out first. Go to Domains → your domain → Transfer Away from Wix and move it to Namecheap, Cloudflare, or Google Domains before canceling.

Before You Cancel — Save Your Content

📦 Manual Content Export Checklist
  1. Blog posts: Copy each post's text and images manually (or use a web scraper)
  2. Images/media: Download all images from Media Manager
  3. Product data: Export products as CSV from Wix Stores
  4. Customer data: Export contacts from Wix CRM
  5. Page content: Copy text from each page
  6. SEO data: Record your page titles, descriptions, and URLs

Wix Refund Policy

Better Alternatives

Wix's "Free" Plan After Canceling

If you cancel Premium, your site reverts to Wix's free plan: Wix ads on your site, no custom domain (yourname.wixsite.com), limited storage, and no e-commerce. For most businesses, this is unusable. It's essentially a hostage situation — pay or your site becomes worthless.

Delete Your Wix Account Entirely

  1. Cancel all Premium plans first
  2. Transfer any domains you want to keep
  3. Go to Account Settings → Close Account
  4. This permanently deletes all your sites and data

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