How to Cancel Audible in 2025 (and why I do it often!)

Here on Lovely Audiobooks, I mostly talk about all the upsides of various audiobook subscriptions. Nevertheless, in this article, I will not only tell you how to cancel Audible but also why it might be a great idea to do so! You see, I do it quite regularly myself because there are several upsides to canceling Audible that I want you to know about.

The Benefits of Canceling an Audible Membership

Well, maybe you just don’t like audiobooks, and this will be the only time you’ll ever visit my blog. Then it’s a given that you should cancel that Audible membership as it will obviously save you a lot of money for something you don’t need and I’m all for that.

However, if you do love audiobooks like me, canceling Audible might still be beneficial!

Firstly, during the cancelation process, Audible often offers us subscribers a significant discount if we agree to continue our membership. Over the years, I have been offered 3-months or even 12-months memberships for up to 50% less countless times!

This has saved me quite a lot of money and has allowed me to buy more audiobooks.

When I go for a discount, my membership starts over again and I get billed right away. But no worries, Audible really doesn’t mind at all when we cancel just to subscribe again!

That being said, we can’t do this all the time. They simply won’t offer a discounted subscription every few months and will just let us go if we keep threatening them with cancellation.

Secondly, while Audible overall offers many benefits for its price, it is not the only audiobook service in town. And sometimes, a different subscription fits my needs better.

For example, at times when money’s tight and Audible Premium Plus has become too expensive, I have primarily bought Amazon Whispersync deals. They are excellent if you want to continue listening to one or two audiobooks a month but get them for less than $8 (compared to an Audible membership that costs us $14.95 on average).

If you want to cancel Audible because you want to listen to more than one audiobook per month, you could look into Kindle Unlimited or take a closer look at Audible Plus.

But I have also eyeballed my Audible subscription because of Audible’s questionable treatment of authors and I like spending my money on smaller companies instead of Amazon.

LibroFM is an audiobook service with a membership model similar to Audible’s. But they make it possible for us to buy our audiobooks from an independent bookstore of our choice instead of a big multinational!

Over the years, I have canceled my Audible subscriptions so many times, for so many reasons.

How to Cancel Audible Subscriptions

Now, before we get to the technical part, be aware that you cannot keep your Audible credits once you cancel your membership! Make sure you spend them all before you go through the cancelation process.

But don’t worry, you keep all the Audible books you already bought! And, of course, you can join again at any time. You will still have access to your account and your audiobook library.

Once you cancel and your membership runs out, you won’t get any monthly Audible credits anymore, and you will lose access to the Audible Plus catalog until you sign up again.

Any Audible Plus books you borrowed will be removed from your library automatically.

If you are currently on a free trial with Audible, you can also cancel right away and won’t get charged! The audiobook purchase you made with your test month credit will stay in your library.

And, as I said before, you can always log into your Audible account, even when you don’t have an active subscription.

To cancel my Audible subscription, I navigate to the upper right corner where it says “Hi, Eline” and click on that link. Now a menu opens up showing my current membership status.

The first link in the menu is Account Details. Once I click on that, an overview page loads.

At the bottom of this page, there’s a button saying “Switch membership”, and right next to it is a text link saying “Cancel membership”. Once I click on that, Audible will guide me through the rest of the cancelation process.

This always looks different though depending on whether or not I’m eligible for a discounted membership.

If you feel uncomfortable with the cancelation process, you can contact Audible customer support to have them cancel your membership for you.

And you have the option to pause your Audible membership. That can be a nice alternative if you have Audible credits left over and don’t know what to spend them on.

However, pausing means you will have to remember to cancel Audible before it renews and you get billed again.

Personally, I prefer to spend any left-over credits on pre-orders if there are no titles right at that moment that I want to buy. Pre-orders will remain active even when I cancel Audible, and the audiobooks will be added to my library once the title is released, even if I’m not an active subscriber anymore.

What happens when you cancel Audible?

You won’t get billed again, and you can still borrow and listen to Audible Plus books until your membership runs out (30 days after your last billing date). All the books that you bought with money or Audible credits will remain in your Audible library, and you can continue listening to them without an active subscription.

If you have Audible credits left, you should spend them before you cancel your subscription. Otherwise, they disappear once your membership ends!

Eline

Eline Blackman (pronouns: she/they) fell in love with books as a child – with being read to and reading herself. 10 years ago, she bought her first Audible book. It was love at first listen! An average of 250 audiobooks per year has become the new normal and you will rarely see Eline without a wireless earbud. Romance and Fantasy are the go-to genres for this audiobook fan.