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Delete a service account

Delete a service account and its role bindings; tokens it minted are revoked within a few seconds.

JavaScript
// Requires Node.js SDK v8.2.0 or later
import { AdminClient } from '@pinecone-database/pinecone';

// Reads PINECONE_CLIENT_ID and PINECONE_CLIENT_SECRET from the environment
const admin = new AdminClient();

await admin.serviceAccounts.delete('YOUR_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_ID');
Go
// Requires Go SDK v6.0.0 or later
package main

import (
    "context"
    "log"
    "os"

    "github.com/pinecone-io/go-pinecone/v6/pinecone"
)

func main() {
    ctx := context.Background()

    adminClient, err := pinecone.NewAdminClientWithContext(ctx, pinecone.NewAdminClientParams{
        ClientId:     os.Getenv("PINECONE_CLIENT_ID"),
        ClientSecret: os.Getenv("PINECONE_CLIENT_SECRET"),
    })
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatalf("Failed to create AdminClient: %v", err)
    }

    if err := adminClient.ServiceAccount.Delete(ctx, "YOUR_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_ID"); err != nil {
        log.Fatalf("Failed to delete service account: %v", err)
    }
}
Terraform
# Requires Terraform provider v4.0.0 or later
# This block defines the service account. To delete it, either remove the block
# and run `terraform apply`, or run:
#   terraform destroy -target=pinecone_service_account.ci_prod
resource "pinecone_service_account" "ci_prod" {
  name = "ci-prod"
}
curl
PINECONE_ACCESS_TOKEN="YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN"
PINECONE_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_ID="YOUR_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_ID"

curl -X DELETE "https://api.pinecone.io/admin/service-accounts/$PINECONE_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_ID" \
	-H "X-Pinecone-Api-Version: 2026-04" \
	-H "Authorization: Bearer $PINECONE_ACCESS_TOKEN"
DELETE/admin/service-accounts/{service_account_id}

Delete a service account

2 parameters
  • X-Pinecone-Api-Versionstringheaderrequired

    Required date-based version header

  • service_account_idstringpathrequired

    The unique identifier of the service account.

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