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Remove a user from the organization

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

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.users.delete('YOUR_USER_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.User.Delete(ctx, "YOUR_USER_ID"); err != nil {
        log.Fatalf("Failed to delete user: %v", err)
    }
}
Terraform
# Requires Terraform provider v4.0.0 or later
# Users join by accepting an invite, so import the existing member first:
#   terraform import pinecone_user.teammate YOUR_USER_ID
# Then remove the resource block and run `terraform apply` to remove them
# from the organization.
resource "pinecone_user" "teammate" {
  id = "YOUR_USER_ID"
}
curl
PINECONE_ACCESS_TOKEN="YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN"
PINECONE_USER_ID="YOUR_USER_ID"

curl -X DELETE "https://api.pinecone.io/admin/users/$PINECONE_USER_ID" \
	-H "X-Pinecone-Api-Version: 2026-04" \
	-H "Authorization: Bearer $PINECONE_ACCESS_TOKEN"
DELETE/admin/users/{user_id}

Remove a user from the organization

2 parameters
  • X-Pinecone-Api-Versionstringheaderrequired

    Required date-based version header

  • user_idstringpathrequired

    User ID

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