How to cancel Hulu

Last verified (cancel steps): October 14, 2026.

To cancel Hulu, sign in at hulu.com, open your profile icon, choose Account, select Cancel under Your Subscription, proceed past any offers with Continue to Cancel, then confirm. It takes about two minutes. Pausing is separate, not inside the cancel flow: find Pause Your Subscription under Your Subscription to pause up to 12 weeks instead.

TL;DR

Difficulty: 2/5
Time estimate: 2 minutes

Step-by-step

On the web (fastest):

Go to hulu.com and sign in.
Click your profile icon (top right) → Account.
Under Your Subscription, select Cancel.
To proceed past any offers, select Continue to Cancel.
Confirm the cancellation.

To pause instead: Pause is a separate control, not part of the cancel flow. Go to Account → Your Subscription → Pause Your Subscription, set the duration (up to 12 weeks), and select Submit.

App differences: Hulu's phone and TV apps don't reliably offer cancellation; use a browser. If you subscribed through Apple or Google, cancel in that app store (below).

Billing-specific instructions:

Billed through Apple: iPhone/iPad → Settings → your name → Subscriptions → Hulu → Cancel Subscription.
Billed through Google Play: Play Store → profile icon → Payments & subscriptions → Subscriptions → Hulu → Cancel subscription.
Billed through Amazon: Your Amazon account → Memberships & Subscriptions → Hulu → Cancel.
Billed through Roku: Roku home → highlight Hulu → press * → Manage subscription → Cancel subscription.
Billed through Spotify, Verizon, or another partner bundle: Cancel through that partner. Note that dropping Hulu from a partner bundle can affect the bundle price; check before you confirm.

Traps to expect

Pause is not inside the cancel flow. Pausing lives under Account → Your Subscription → Pause Your Subscription. Don't go hunting for it inside Cancel; you risk finishing a cancellation instead.
Live TV add-on billing: If you have Hulu + Live TV, canceling the base plan ends the add-on too. There's no keeping Live TV without the base.
Annual plans and some third-party-billed accounts may not be eligible for pausing. If the pause option doesn't appear, that's why.
Free trials may end immediately. Canceling during a trial can cut access on the spot rather than at the trial's end date.

Retention offers

Pause up to 12 weeks: The headline offer. Your account and profiles sit dormant; billing resumes automatically when the pause ends. Verdict: genuinely useful for short breaks (a summer, a busy quarter). Set a reminder for when it resumes, because it will charge you without asking again.
Free month: Hulu sometimes offers a free month to cancelers. No public schedule for when it appears. Verdict: free is free, but weigh it against your rotation plan. One free month that pushes your resubscribe date is neutral; one that makes you forget to cancel again is a trap.

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After you cancel

You keep watching until the end of the current billing period (trials excepted, see above).
Profiles, watch history, and My Stuff are expected to persist for a resubscribe on the same account, but Hulu doesn't publish a retention window.

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Coming back

Sign back in at hulu.com and pick a plan. If you paused rather than canceled, check your Account page; the pause may still be active.

Quick answers

Straight answers to the questions people actually ask.

How much is Hulu now, and what happens after I cancel?

Hulu costs $12.49/month with ads or $21.49/month ad-free, price verified October 14, 2026. After you cancel a paid plan, you keep watching until the end of your billing period, but canceling during a free trial may end access immediately; you can also pause up to 12 weeks instead and keep everything intact. The step-by-step above covers the cancel itself; pause is not inside the cancel flow.