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

```shell curl theme={null}
# To get the unique host for an index,
# see https://docs.pinecone.io/guides/manage-data/target-an-index
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: 2025-10" \
  -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>`.

## Headers

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

## 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.
- `4XX` — An unexpected error response.
- `5XX` — 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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