> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.pinecone.io/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Delete a namespace

> Delete a namespace from a serverless index. Deleting a namespace is irreversible; all data in the namespace is permanently deleted.

For guidance and examples, see [Manage namespaces](https://docs.pinecone.io/guides/manage-data/manage-namespaces).

**Note:** This operation is not supported for pod-based indexes.

<RequestExample>
  ```bash curl theme={null}
  PINECONE_API_KEY="YOUR_API_KEY"
  INDEX_HOST="YOUR_INDEX_HOST"
  NAMESPACE="YOUR_NAMESPACE" # To target the default namespace, use "__default__".

  curl -X DELETE "https://$INDEX_HOST/namespaces/$NAMESPACE" \
      -H "Api-Key: $PINECONE_API_KEY" \
      -H "X-Pinecone-Api-Version: 2026-07"
  ```
</RequestExample>


## OpenAPI

````yaml https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pinecone-io/pinecone-api/refs/heads/main/2026-07/db_data_2026-07.oas.yaml delete /namespaces/{namespace}
openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: Pinecone Data Plane API
  description: >-
    Pinecone is a vector database that makes it easy to search and retrieve
    billions of high-dimensional vectors.
  contact:
    name: Pinecone Support
    url: https://support.pinecone.io
    email: support@pinecone.io
  license:
    name: Apache 2.0
    url: https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
  version: 2026-07
servers:
  - url: https://{index_host}
    variables:
      index_host:
        default: unknown
        description: host of the index
security:
  - ApiKeyAuth: []
tags:
  - name: Vector Operations
  - name: Bulk Operations
  - name: Namespace Operations
  - name: Document Operations
    description: >-
      Operations on documents in an index created with a document schema — one
      that declares at least one full-text-searchable string field or a
      `dense_vector` / `sparse_vector` field under a name other than the
      reserved `_values` / `_sparse_values`. Metadata fields alone do not make a
      document schema. Indexes served by the vectors API — created from
      `dimension`/`metric` on an earlier API version, or from a schema holding
      only the reserved vector fields and metadata — and indexes served by the
      records API — created with an integrated embedding model, whose schema
      holds a single `semantic_text` field — reject every document operation
      with `400` and name the API to use instead. A document index accepts only
      the document operations; the vector data operations (upsert, query, fetch,
      update, delete, list) reject it, while index stats and the namespace
      operations remain available.
externalDocs:
  description: More Pinecone.io API docs
  url: https://docs.pinecone.io/introduction
paths:
  /namespaces/{namespace}:
    delete:
      tags:
        - Namespace Operations
      summary: Delete a namespace
      description: >-
        Delete a namespace from a serverless index. Deleting a namespace is
        irreversible; all data in the namespace is permanently deleted.


        For guidance and examples, see [Manage
        namespaces](https://docs.pinecone.io/guides/manage-data/manage-namespaces).


        **Note:** This operation is not supported for pod-based indexes.
      operationId: deleteNamespace
      parameters:
        - in: header
          name: X-Pinecone-Api-Version
          description: Required date-based version header
          required: true
          schema:
            default: 2026-07
            type: string
          style: simple
        - in: path
          name: namespace
          description: >-
            The namespace to delete. Must be ASCII, must not contain the NUL
            character, and must be 1-512 characters long.
          required: true
          schema:
            type: string
            pattern: ^[\x01-\x7F]+$
            minLength: 1
            maxLength: 512
          style: simple
      responses:
        '200':
          description: A successful response.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/DeleteResponse'
        '400':
          description: Bad request. The request body included invalid request parameters.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/rpcStatus'
        '401':
          description: 'Unauthorized. Possible causes: missing or invalid API key.'
          content:
            text/plain:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/UnauthorizedMessage'
        '404':
          description: >-
            Namespace not found. No namespace of the given name exists on the
            index.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/rpcStatus'
        4XX:
          description: An unexpected error response.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/rpcStatus'
        5XX:
          description: An unexpected error response.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/rpcStatus'
components:
  schemas:
    DeleteResponse:
      description: The response for the `delete` operation.
      type: object
    rpcStatus:
      description: >-
        The error response shape returned by the vector and bulk operations.
        Requests rejected by the authentication and rate-limiting layer before
        they reach the service (`401`, and the `400`, `403`, and `429` it
        produces) return a plain-text body instead.
      type: object
      properties:
        code:
          type: integer
          format: int32
        message:
          type: string
        details:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/protobufAny'
    UnauthorizedMessage:
      example: Unauthorized
      description: >-
        The plain-text body of a `401` response. Authentication failures are
        rejected before the request reaches the index, so they carry the message
        `Unauthorized` rather than an error object.
      type: string
    protobufAny:
      type: object
      properties:
        typeUrl:
          type: string
        value:
          type: string
          format: byte
  securitySchemes:
    ApiKeyAuth:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: Api-Key
      description: >-
        An API Key is required to call Pinecone APIs. Get yours from the
        [console](https://app.pinecone.io/).

````