# Remove a user from the organization

**DELETE** `/admin/users/{user_id}`

Remove a user from the organization and revoke their role bindings; their Pinecone account is not deleted.

Base URL: `https://api.pinecone.io`

Tags: `Users`

## Authorization

| Option | Scheme | Type | Sent as | Scopes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Option 1 | `BearerAuth` | `http` | `Authorization: Bearer <token>` | — |

## Path parameters

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `user_id` | `string` (uuid) | Yes | User ID |

## Header parameters

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `X-Pinecone-Api-Version` | `string` | Yes | Required date-based version header |

## Responses

| Status | Description | Media type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `202` | User removal request accepted. The user's role bindings are revoked immediately; the user then returns 404, and repeating the request returns 404 as well. | — |
| `401` | Unauthorized. Possible causes: Invalid API key. | `application/json` |
| `403` | Forbidden | `application/json` |
| `404` | Not found | `application/json` |
| `409` | Conflict. The request conflicts with the persisted state of the resource. Common causes include invariant violations (e.g., removing the last `OrgOwner`), lifecycle-state mismatches (e.g., resending an invite that is not pending), and constraint violations checked against persisted data. | `application/json` |
| `4XX` | Unexpected error on request. | `application/json` |
| `500` | Internal server error. | `application/json` |

### Example response: 401 — Unauthorized. Possible causes: Invalid API key.

```json
{
  "error": {
    "code": "UNAUTHENTICATED",
    "message": "Invalid API key."
  },
  "status": 401
}
```

### Example response: 403 — Forbidden

```json
{
  "error": {
    "code": "QUOTA_EXCEEDED",
    "message": "The index exceeds the project quota of 5 pods by 2 pods. Upgrade your account or change the project settings to increase the quota."
  },
  "status": 429
}
```

### Example response: 404 — Not found

```json
{
  "error": {
    "code": "QUOTA_EXCEEDED",
    "message": "The index exceeds the project quota of 5 pods by 2 pods. Upgrade your account or change the project settings to increase the quota."
  },
  "status": 429
}
```

### Example response: 409 — Conflict. The request conflicts with the persisted state of the resource. Common causes include invariant violations (e.g., removing the last `OrgOwner`), lifecycle-state mismatches (e.g., resending an invite that is not pending), and constraint violations checked against persisted data.

```json
{
  "error": {
    "code": "ALREADY_EXISTS",
    "message": "This email already belongs to a member of the organization."
  },
  "status": 409
}
```

### Example response: 4XX — Unexpected error on request.

```json
{
  "error": {
    "code": "QUOTA_EXCEEDED",
    "message": "The index exceeds the project quota of 5 pods by 2 pods. Upgrade your account or change the project settings to increase the quota."
  },
  "status": 429
}
```

### Example response: 500 — Internal server error.

```json
{
  "error": {
    "code": "UNKNOWN",
    "message": "Internal server error"
  },
  "status": 500
}
```

## Related pages

- [API Keys](./tags/api-keys.md)
- [Create a new project](./create_project.md)
- [Create a role binding](./create_role_binding.md)
- [Create a service account](./create_service_account.md)
- [Create an API key](./create_api_key.md)
- [Delete a project](./delete_project.md)
- [Delete a role binding](./delete_role_binding.md)
- [Delete a service account](./delete_service_account.md)
- [Delete an API key](./delete_api_key.md)
- [Delete an invite](./delete_invite.md)

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