If you cancel your Canva Pro subscription (or let your free trial expire without upgrading) your designs stay in your account. You won’t lose access to your files. What changes is what you can do with them.
Your Design Files Stay Intact
Every design you created during your Pro subscription or trial remains in your account after you cancel. You can still open them, view them, and edit them. Nothing is deleted, and nothing is hidden.
Downloading Designs That Use Premium Elements
The main limitation you’ll run into is with downloads. If a design includes premium elements (e.g., Pro stock photos, premium graphics, or Pro fonts) you won’t be able to download it without watermarks on the free plan.
To download it cleanly, you’d need to either upgrade back to Pro or replace the premium elements with free alternatives before downloading.
Your Brand Kit
Your Brand Kit is preserved in your account, but becomes inaccessible on the free plan. If you set up fonts, colours, and logos in your Brand Kit during your Pro subscription, those settings aren’t deleted — they’re just locked until you’re on a paid plan again.
If you upgrade in the future, your Brand Kits will be restored, but subject to the current Pro limit of five. If you have more than five Brand Kits, the most recent five will be accessible, and any beyond that will be locked until you either reduce your total to five or upgrade to a Business plan.
Your Storage
Pro accounts include one hundred gigabytes of storage compared to five gigabytes on the free plan. If you’ve uploaded a significant amount of media during your Pro subscription, it’s worth being aware that reverting to the free plan reduces your available storage.
If You’re Considering Cancelling
If you’re on the fence about whether to keep Pro, my post on what you can do with Canva Pro that you can’t do for free covers every feature difference in detail, which may help you weigh whether the subscription is worth continuing for how you use Canva.
