Delete a collection
Delete an existing collection.
Collections are supported only for pod-based indexes. Pod-based indexes cannot be created with API version 2026-07, so this operation applies to pod-based indexes created with an earlier API version.
PINECONE_API_KEY="YOUR_API_KEY"
curl -i -X DELETE "https://api.pinecone.io/collections/example-collection" \
-H "Api-Key: $PINECONE_API_KEY" \
-H "X-Pinecone-Api-Version: 2026-07"DELETE /collections/{collection_name}
{
"error": {
"code": "INVALID_ARGUMENT",
"message": "Bad request. The request body included invalid request parameters."
},
"status": 400
}{
"error": {
"code": "NOT_FOUND",
"message": "Collection example-collection not found."
},
"status": 404
}{
"error": {
"code": "UNKNOWN",
"message": "Internal server error"
},
"status": 500
}Authorizations
Section titled “Authorizations”Api-KeystringrequiredAn API Key is required to call Pinecone APIs. Get yours from the console.
Headers
Section titled “Headers”X-Pinecone-Api-VersionstringrequiredRequired date-based version header
Path Parameters
Section titled “Path Parameters”collection_namestringrequiredThe name of the collection.
Response
Section titled “Response”202 — The collection has been successfully deleted.