# Delete a service account

**DELETE** `/admin/service-accounts/{service_account_id}`

:::code-group
```bash title="cURL"
curl --request DELETE \
  --url https://api.pinecone.io/admin/service-accounts/{service_account_id} \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>'
```

```json title="401"
{
  "error": {
    "code": "QUOTA_EXCEEDED",
    "message": "The index exceeds the project quota of 5 pods by 2 pods. Upgrade your account or change the project settings to increase the quota."
  },
  "status": 429
}
```
:::

## Authorizations

- `Authorization` (header, string, required) — Bearer authentication header of the form `Bearer <token>`.

## Path Parameters

- `service_account_id` (path, string, required) — The unique identifier of the service account.

## Headers

- `X-Pinecone-Api-Version` (header, string, required) — Required date-based version header

## Response

- `202` — Service account deletion request accepted. The service account and its role bindings are removed immediately; it then returns 404, and repeating the request returns 404 as well.
- `401` — Unauthorized. Possible causes: Invalid API key.
- `403` — Forbidden
- `404` — Not found
- `500` — Internal server error.
- `4XX` — Unexpected error on request.

## Related pages

- [List service accounts](./admin-2-2026-07-admin-service-accounts-list-service-accounts.md)
- [Create a service account](./admin-2-2026-07-admin-service-accounts-create-a-service-account.md)
- [Get service account details](./admin-2-2026-07-admin-service-accounts-get-service-account-details.md)
- [Update a service account](./admin-2-2026-07-admin-service-accounts-update-a-service-account.md)
- [Rotate a service account's OAuth client secret](./admin-2-2026-07-admin-service-accounts-rotate-a-service-accounts-oauth-client-secret.md)
- [Create a service account](./admin-2-2026-04-admin-create-service-account.md)
- [List service accounts](./admin-2-2026-04-admin-list-service-accounts.md)
- [Get service account details](./admin-2-2026-04-admin-fetch-service-account.md)
- [Update a service account](./admin-2-2026-04-admin-update-service-account.md)
- [Delete a service account](./admin-2-2026-04-admin-delete-service-account.md)

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