To prevent additional charges from accruing and stop further billing, you can remove any paid services from your account or cancel your account entirely.

Remove services

Linode services are provided without a contract or commitment. You can remove them from your account at any time. Here are instructions for removing a Compute Instance:

Log in to Cloud Manager and select Linodes from the sidebar menu.
Locate the Compute Instance you wish to delete.
Click its ... menu and select Delete.
Select Delete Linode in the confirmation box that appears.

To delete other services, check out their specific instructions:

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Removing a service from your account makes its data irretrievable. With a Compute Instance, any corresponding Backup service is also deleted and you won't be able to restore from those backup snapshots.
To preserve your data before removing a service from your account, create an external backup. Check out the Backing Up Your Data guide for some examples on how to do this.
When removing a Compute Instance from your account that has been active for at least 24 hours, a Recovery Image is automatically created. To learn how to deploy this image, see Deploy an Image to a New Compute Instance.
There is a very small chance that Support can restore your data outside of these circumstances. The sooner you reach out to support, the more likely this can occur. Open a Support ticket to explore this possibility.

Cancel account

If you no longer wish to use any Linode services, you can also cancel your account. When an account is cancelled, you may receive a final bill. This bill includes all charges that have already accrued during the billing period.

See Cancel Your Account to learn more.