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Delete a project

Before deleting a project, you must delete all indexes, assistants, backups, and collections associated with the project. Other project resources, such as API keys, are automatically deleted when the project is deleted.

curl
PINECONE_ACCESS_TOKEN="YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN"
PROJECT_ID="YOUR_PROJECT_ID"

curl -X DELETE "https://api.pinecone.io/admin/projects/$PROJECT_ID" \
	-H "X-Pinecone-Api-Version: 2025-10" \
	-H "Authorization: Bearer $PINECONE_ACCESS_TOKEN"
DELETE/admin/projects/{project_id}

Delete a project

2 parameters
  • X-Pinecone-Api-Versionstringheaderrequired

    Required date-based version header

  • project_idstringpathrequired

    Project ID

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