Most people who search for how to cancel a subscription have been burned before: an app that kept debiting after a free month, a UPI AutoPay mandate they forgot about, or a cancel button hidden five screens deep. It is a fair worry, so here is the plain answer for Autunes and everything that happens around it.
Autunes does not sell subscriptions in that sense. Pro and Creator are passes. You pay once, the pass runs for its fixed length, and then it stops on its own. No recurring charge is ever set up, so there is no cancellation step to remember.
How Autunes billing actually works
Every paid plan is a single payment through Razorpay, in your local currency. In India you can pay by UPI, card or net banking; outside India, international cards and Apple Pay work. At checkout you approve one payment for one pass, and that is the only money that moves.
Because Autunes never stores a mandate, there is nothing in your UPI app's AutoPay list and nothing saved on your card for repeat charges. If you want to check, open the AutoPay or mandates section of your UPI app after buying: you will not find Autunes there.
- Pro: ₹599 for 30 days, 300 credits.
- Creator: ₹2,999 for 30 days, 1,600 credits.
- Pro yearly: ₹6,589 for 365 days, with 300 credits every 30 days.
- Creator yearly: ₹29,990 for 365 days, with 1,600 credits every 30 days.
- Top-ups, single-song licences and Karaoke passes are also one-time payments.
What happens on the day your pass ends
A few days before the end date, Autunes emails you a reminder with the date and your remaining credit balance. You do not have to reply or click anything. On the end date your account switches back to the Free plan.
Your songs, playlists and anything you have already downloaded stay exactly where they are. Under the Terms of Service, once you have bought a Pro or Creator pass, every song in your account belongs to you, including songs you made earlier on the Free plan, so the commercial rights to those songs do not disappear when the pass does.
What switches off are the paid features: Zori5.5 XL on any prompt, stems, section edits, remix and cover, longer Creator songs, voice clone, lossless FLAC and the rest. Credits you bought as a top-up never expire. Plan credits are meant as the allowance for the pass, so the sensible habit is to spend them while the paid features are on, because that is when they buy the most.
How to stop paying, step by step
Stopping takes no action at all, but if you like to be thorough, this is the whole checklist.
- Do nothing when the reminder email arrives. The pass ends by itself.
- Download what you want offline. Songs made after any single payment of ₹99 or more stay free to download even after the pass ends, but Free-plan songs made before your first such payment need the ₹9 licence once you are back on Free, so take those while the pass runs.
- If you want, check your UPI app or bank statement: you will see one Razorpay charge per purchase and no mandate.
- If you want to leave Autunes entirely, you can close your account from account settings. Download your songs first, because data from a closed account may be deleted after a reasonable period.
Refunds if you change your mind early
Not paying again is different from getting money back for a pass you already bought. The refund policy is short. You can get a full refund if you ask within 7 days of your first paid-pass payment and have used 20 credits or fewer on it. That is enough to hear one or two songs and decide.
If you have used more than 20 credits, Autunes may offer a partial refund or none, at its discretion; a partial refund is worked out on the credits still unused, less payment-gateway charges, not on the days left. Credit top-ups and ₹9 song licences are final.
To ask, email aakash@autunes.com with the subject Refund Request, your registered email, the purchase date, the reason and the transaction ID from your payment confirmation. Requests are reviewed within 3 to 5 business days. Approved UPI refunds usually land in 2 to 3 business days and card refunds in 5 to 10.
Renewing, upgrading or switching to yearly
When you want Pro again, just buy it again. If you buy the same plan while your current pass is still running, the new days are added after the current end date, so you lose nothing by renewing early. A yearly pass of the same tier bought during a monthly pass also stacks on top of the days you have left.
Moving to a different tier, say from Pro to Creator, starts the new pass from the day you buy it. The new plan's credits are added to your balance.
A worked example
Say you buy Pro on 1 March to make songs for a cousin's sangeet. Your 300 credits cover, for example, 12 songs on Zori5.5 XL (180 credits), stems for 4 of them (20), 10 single-line fixes (30) and 6 variations (30), with 40 credits to spare. The reminder arrives near the end of the month. You do nothing, and on day 30 the account returns to Free with all those songs still yours.
In October you want a Diwali song for the family group, so you buy Pro again for ₹599. Across the year you paid ₹1,198 for the two months you actually used, and nothing in between.
When a monthly pass is not the best choice
If you make songs nearly every month, buying twelve monthly Pro passes costs ₹7,188, while Pro yearly is ₹6,589. If you only need one song, a pass may be more than you need: on the Free plan, a single song's download and commercial licence is ₹9, and a small credit top-up covers another song or two.
Common mistakes
A few things trip people up, mostly out of habit from other apps.
- Hunting for a cancel button. There is none because there is nothing to cancel.
- Filing a chargeback with the bank instead of emailing first. Autunes may suspend an account during a chargeback, and an email is faster.
- Using most of the credits and then expecting a full refund. The full refund applies only up to 20 credits used.
- Assuming songs vanish when the pass ends. They stay in your library.
- Closing the account before downloading. Download first.