Here are the lists of players released by the eight franchises:
| Sunrisers Hyderabad |
| Karn Sharma |
| Ashish Reddy |
| Eoin Morgan |
| Trent Boult |
| Tirumalasetti Suman |
| Aditya Tare |
| Royal Challengers Bangalore |
| Varun Aaron |
| Abu Nechim Ahmed |
| David Wiese |
| Kane Richardson |
| Vikramjeet Malik |
| Praveen Dubey |
| Akshay Karnewar |
| Vikas Tokas |
| Parveez Rasool |
| Chris Jordan |
| Gujarat Lions |
| Dale Steyn |
| Paras Dogra |
| Eklavya Dwivedi |
| Sarbjeet Ladda |
| Pravin Tambe |
| Umang Sharma |
| Amit Mishra |
| Aksh Deep Nath |
| Rising Pune Supergiants |
| Kevin Pietersen |
| Ishant Sharma |
| Irfan Pathan |
| Thisara Perera |
| Rudra Pratap Singh |
| Scott Boland |
| M. Ashwin |
| Peter Handscomb |
| Saurabh Tiwary |
| Albie Morkel |
| George Bailey |
| Kolkata Knight Riders |
| Morne Morkel |
| Brad Hogg |
| Jason Holder |
| Colin Munro |
| John Hastings |
| Jaydev Unadkat |
| Rajagopal Sathish |
| Manan Sharma |
| Shaun Tait |
| Kings XI Punjab |
| Mitchell Johnson |
| Rishi Dhawan |
| Kyle Abbott |
| Farhaan Behardien |
| Mumbai Indians |
| Corey Anderson |
| Marchant De Lange |
| Unmukt Chand |
| Akshay Wakhare |
| Nathu Singh |
| Kishore Pramod Kamath |
| Martin Guptill |
| Jerome Taylor |
| Delhi Daredevils |
| Nathan Coulter-Nile |
| Imran Tahir |
| Joel Paris |
| Pawan Negi |
| Pawan Suyal |
| Akhil Arvind Herwadkar |
| Mahipal Lomror |