Delete an assistant
Delete an existing assistant.
For guidance and examples, see Manage assistants
PINECONE_API_KEY="YOUR_API_KEY"
ASSISTANT_NAME="example-assistant"
curl -X DELETE "https://api.pinecone.io/assistant/assistants/$ASSISTANT_NAME" \
-H "Api-Key: $PINECONE_API_KEY" \
-H "X-Pinecone-Api-Version: 2026-04"DELETE /assistants/{assistant_name}
{
"error": {
"code": "UNAUTHENTICATED",
"message": "Invalid API key."
},
"status": 401
}{
"error": {
"code": "NOT_FOUND",
"message": "Assistant \"example-assistant\" not found."
},
"status": 404
}{
"error": {
"code": "UNKNOWN",
"message": "Internal server error"
},
"status": 500
}Authorizations
Section titled “Authorizations”Api-KeystringrequiredPinecone API Key
Headers
Section titled “Headers”X-Pinecone-Api-VersionstringrequiredRequired date-based version header
Path Parameters
Section titled “Path Parameters”assistant_namestringrequiredThe name of the assistant to delete.
Response
Section titled “Response”200 — The request to delete the assistant has been accepted.