# Delete a context (and its Pinecone indexes)

`DELETE /contexts/{slug}`

:::code-group
```bash title="cURL"
curl --request DELETE \
  --url https://{host}/api/contexts/{slug} \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>'
```

```json title="404"
{
  "message": "<string>",
  "code": "<string>"
}
```
:::

## Authorizations

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

## Path Parameters

- `slug` (path, string, required) — Context slug or UUID.

## Headers

- `X-Pinecone-Api-Version` (header, string) — Date-based contract version, echoed back on the same header. Omit for the default (`2026-07`); send `unstable` for the in-development surface. An unrecognized value is rejected with `400 unsupported_api_version`.

## Response

- `200` — Deleted (empty body)
- `404` — Not found
- `504` — Active tasks did not terminate in time

## Related pages

- [List contexts (newest first, with stats)](./data-plane-contexts-list-contexts-newest-first-with-stats.md)
- [Create a context](./data-plane-contexts-create-a-context.md)
- [Get a context](./data-plane-contexts-get-a-context.md)
- [Update a context](./data-plane-contexts-update-a-context.md)
- [Per-context task statistics](./data-plane-contexts-per-context-task-statistics.md)
- [Trigger an on-demand self-tuning optimize](./data-plane-contexts-trigger-an-on-demand-self-tuning-optimize.md)
- [Run the Design-flow explore agent (propose a manifest)](./data-plane-contexts-run-the-design-flow-explore-agent-propose-a-manifest.md)
- [Estimate the token + time cost of curating the in-progress manifest](./data-plane-contexts-estimate-the-token-time-cost-of-curating-the-in-progress-manifest.md)

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