Delete a backup

PINECONE_API_KEY="YOUR_API_KEY"
BACKUP_ID="9947520e-d5a1-4418-a78d-9f464c9969da"

curl -X DELETE "https://api.pinecone.io/backups/$BACKUP_ID" \
    -H "Api-Key: $PINECONE_API_KEY" \
    -H "X-Pinecone-Api-Version: 2026-04"

DELETE /backups/{backup_id}

curl --request DELETE \
  --url https://api.pinecone.io/backups/{backup_id} \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>'

{
  "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
}

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

• backup_id (path, string, required) — The ID of the backup to delete.

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

• 202 — The request to delete the backup has been accepted.
• 401 — Unauthorized. Possible causes: Invalid API key.
• 404 — Backup not found.
• 412 — There is a pending restore job created from this backup.
• 500 — Internal server error.