For guidance and examples, see [Delete data](/guides/manage-data-delete-data).

```python Python theme={null}
# pip install "pinecone[grpc]"
from pinecone.grpc import PineconeGRPC as Pinecone

pc = Pinecone(api_key="YOUR_API_KEY")
index = pc.Index("docs-example")

index.delete(ids=["id-1", "id-2"], namespace='example-namespace')
```

```javascript JavaScript theme={null}
import { Pinecone } from '@pinecone-database/pinecone'

const pc = new Pinecone({ apiKey: 'YOUR_API_KEY' })
const index = pc.index('docs-example')

const ns = index.namespace('example-namespace')
// Delete one record by ID.
await ns.deleteOne('id-1');
// Delete more than one record by ID.
await ns.deleteMany(['id-2', 'id-3']);
```

```java Java theme={null}
import io.pinecone.clients.Index;
import io.pinecone.clients.Pinecone;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.List;

public class DeleteVectorsExample {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Pinecone pc = new Pinecone.Builder("YOUR_API_KEY").build();
        Index index = pc.getIndexConnection("docs-example");
        List<String> ids = Arrays.asList("id-1  ", "id-2");
        index.deleteByIds(ids, "example-namespace");
    }
}
```

```go Go theme={null}
package main

import (
    "context"
    "log"

    "github.com/pinecone-io/go-pinecone/v2/pinecone"
)

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

    pc, err := pinecone.NewClient(pinecone.NewClientParams{
        ApiKey: "YOUR_API_KEY",
    })
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatalf("Failed to create Client: %v", err)
    }

    idx, err := pc.DescribeIndex(ctx, "docs-example")
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatalf("Failed to describe index \"%v\": %v", idx.Name, err)
    }

    idxConnection, err := pc.Index(pinecone.NewIndexConnParams{Host: idx.Host, Namespace: "example-namespace"})
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatalf("Failed to create IndexConnection for Host %v: %v", idx.Host, err)
    }

    id1 := "id-1"
    id2 := "id-2"

    err = idxConnection.DeleteVectorsByID(ctx, []string{id1, id2})
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatalf("Failed to delete vector with ID %v: %v", id, err)
    }
}
```

```csharp C# theme={null}
using Pinecone;

var pinecone = new PineconeClient("YOUR_API_KEY");

var index = pinecone.Index("docs-example");

var deleteResponse = await index.DeleteAsync(new DeleteRequest {
    Ids = new List<string> { "id-1", "id-2" },
    Namespace = "example-namespace",
});
```

```shell curl theme={null}
PINECONE_API_KEY="YOUR_API_KEY"
INDEX_HOST="INDEX_HOST"

curl "https://$INDEX_HOST/vectors/delete" \
  -H "Api-Key: $PINECONE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "X-Pinecone-Api-Version: 2024-07" \
  -d '{
    "ids": [
      "id-1", 
      "id-2"
    ],
    "namespace": "example-namespace"
  }
'
```

```json curl theme={null}
{}
```

`POST /vectors/delete`

:::code-group
```bash title="cURL"
curl --request POST \
  --url https://{index_host}/vectors/delete \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{
  "ids": [
    "id-0",
    "id-1"
  ],
  "deleteAll": false,
  "namespace": "example-namespace",
  "filter": {}
}'
```

```json title="200"
{}
```
:::

## Authorizations

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

## Body

- `ids` (body, string\[]) — Vectors to delete.
- `deleteAll` (body, boolean) — This indicates that all vectors in the index namespace should be deleted.
- `namespace` (body, string) — The namespace to delete vectors from, if applicable.
- `filter` (body, object) — If specified, the metadata filter here will be used to select the vectors to delete. This is mutually exclusive with specifying ids to delete in the ids param or using delete\_all=True. See [Delete data](/guides/manage-data-delete-data#delete-records-by-metadata).

## Response

- `200` — A successful response.
- `400` — Bad request. The request body included invalid request parameters.
- `default` — An unexpected error response.

## Related pages

- [Search with a vector](./database-2026-07-data-plane-query.md)
- [Search with text](./database-2026-07-data-plane-search-records.md)
- [Upsert records](./database-2026-07-data-plane-upsert.md)
- [Upsert text](./database-2026-07-data-plane-upsert-records.md)
- [Fetch records](./database-2026-07-data-plane-fetch.md)
- [Fetch records by metadata](./database-2026-07-data-plane-fetch-by-metadata.md)
- [Update a record](./database-2026-07-data-plane-update.md)
- [Delete records](./database-2026-07-data-plane-delete.md)
- [List record IDs](./database-2026-07-data-plane-list.md)
- [Search with a vector](./database-2026-04-data-plane-query.md)

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