How do I remove a Marketplace purchased Visual Studio subscription from my Azure Subscription

Colin Helliwell 0 Reputation points
2026-08-17T10:31:08.12+00:00

I signed up for a free trial of Visual Studio thru Marketplace. This has auto converted to a monthly charge on my Azure Subscription. I do not wish to retain this VS subscription at this time. How do I remove it from my Azure monthly Billing Subscription.

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  1. TP 162.1K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2026-08-18T19:25:53.6366667+00:00

    Hi Colin,

    It's been a while since I disabled my VS subscription, so I'm unsure exact method that will work for you. I believe I had to turn it off in the Visual Studio subscription portal, but I'll give you instructions for Azure portal as well.

    VS subscription portal is at below link:

    https://manage.visualstudio.com/dashboard

    Sign in using account that is admin for your VS Subscription, then in upper right corner make sure you have correct Entra tenant selected (if you have multiple). Once there you should see your monthly subscription and be able to reduce the purchased quantity to 0 and/or disable auto-renew, so that next month it will lapse.

    NOTE: I signed in to my dashboard and I see my lapsed subscription with 0 licenses, but it isn't clear the technique I used to disable the monthly billing. That is why I'm a bit vague with my instructions in previous paragraph. The official instructions say to select Change quantity and set it to 0.

    I recommend trying above method first.

    Another potential is to disable it via Azure portal. I suspect if you try this instead of letting you disable auto-renew it will display a message saying you have to go to Visual Studio Marketplace protal, but I will give you instructions just in case it will work.

    In the Azure portal, please navigate to Cost Management + Billing using link below:

    https://portal.azure.com/#blade/Microsoft_Azure_GTM/ModernBillingMenuBlade

    On left, click Products + services -- All billing subscriptions blade. Click on context menu (three dots) to the right of the VS Subscription line and choose Change renewal setting.

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    Assuming it allows you to disable via this technique, In the flyout window on right, select Off and click Save.

    Please click Accept Answer and upvote if the above was helpful.

    Thanks.

    -TP

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