Delete records - Pinecone Docs

# 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: 2026-07" \
  -d '{
    "ids": [
      "id-1", 
      "id-2"
    ],
    "namespace": "example-namespace"
  }
'

{}

{
  "code": 123,
  "message": "<string>",
  "details": [
    {
      "typeUrl": "<string>",
      "value": "aSDinaTvuI8gbWludGxpZnk="
    }
  ]
}

"Unauthorized"

{
  "code": 123,
  "message": "<string>",
  "details": [
    {
      "typeUrl": "<string>",
      "value": "aSDinaTvuI8gbWludGxpZnk="
    }
  ]
}

{
  "code": 123,
  "message": "<string>",
  "details": [
    {
      "typeUrl": "<string>",
      "value": "aSDinaTvuI8gbWludGxpZnk="
    }
  ]
}

POST

/

vectors

/

delete

# 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: 2026-07" \
  -d '{
    "ids": [
      "id-1", 
      "id-2"
    ],
    "namespace": "example-namespace"
  }
'

{}

{
  "code": 123,
  "message": "<string>",
  "details": [
    {
      "typeUrl": "<string>",
      "value": "aSDinaTvuI8gbWludGxpZnk="
    }
  ]
}

"Unauthorized"

{
  "code": 123,
  "message": "<string>",
  "details": [
    {
      "typeUrl": "<string>",
      "value": "aSDinaTvuI8gbWludGxpZnk="
    }
  ]
}

{
  "code": 123,
  "message": "<string>",
  "details": [
    {
      "typeUrl": "<string>",
      "value": "aSDinaTvuI8gbWludGxpZnk="
    }
  ]
}

# 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: 2026-07" \
  -d '{
    "ids": [
      "id-1", 
      "id-2"
    ],
    "namespace": "example-namespace"
  }
'

Authorizations

Api-Key

string

header

required

An API Key is required to call Pinecone APIs. Get yours from the console.

Headers

X-Pinecone-Api-Version

string

default:2026-07

required

Required date-based version header

Body

application/json

Option 1
Option 2
Option 3

The request for the delete operation.

ids

string[]

required

Vectors to delete.

Required array length: 1 - 1000 elements

Required string length: 1 - 512

Pattern: ^[\x01-\x7F]+$

Example:

["id-0", "id-1"]

deleteAll

boolean

default:false

This indicates that all vectors in the index namespace should be deleted. Cannot be combined with ids.

Example:

false

namespace

string

The namespace to delete records from, if applicable.

Example:

"example-namespace"

filter

object

If specified, the metadata filter here will be used to select the vectors to delete. This is mutually exclusive with using delete_all=True. See Delete data.

Response

A successful response.

The response for the delete operation.