---
title: "Delete External Key"
method: DELETE
path: "/v1/organizations/external_keys/{external_key_id}"
---

# Delete External Key

`DELETE /v1/organizations/external_keys/{external_key_id}`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.anthropic.com`
- URL: `https://api.anthropic.com/v1/organizations/external_keys/{external_key_id}`
- Auth: none declared

Delete an external key config.

The request is rejected if any workspace still references this config.

## Path parameters

- `external_key_id` string, required: ID of the External Key.

## Headers

- `anthropic-version` string: The version of the Claude API you want to use. Read more about versioning and our version history [here](https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/api/versioning).

## Response `200`

Successful Response

- DeleteExternalKeyResponse
  - `id` string, required: ID of the deleted External Key.
  - `type` 'external_key_deleted', required

## Other responses

- `400`: Invalid argument - The client specified an invalid argument
- `401`: Unauthenticated - The request does not have valid authentication credentials
- `403`: Permission denied - The caller does not have permission to execute the specified operation
- `404`: Not found - Some requested entity was not found
- `408`: Deadline exceeded - The deadline expired before the operation could complete
- `409`: Aborted - The operation was aborted due to concurrency issue
- `412`: Failed precondition - Operation was rejected because the system is not in required state
- `413`: Out of range - Operation was attempted past the valid range
- `429`: Resource exhausted - Some resource has been exhausted (rate limiting)
- `431`: Request header fields too large - Request metadata was too large
- `499`: Cancelled - The operation was cancelled by the client
- `500`: Internal - Internal server error
- `501`: Unimplemented - The operation is not implemented or supported
- `503`: Unavailable - The service is currently unavailable
- `504`: Deadline exceeded - Upstream service did not respond in time
- `529`: Overloaded - The service is temporarily overloaded

## Changes

- **2026-10-28** `595d83361f7d`: 1 breaking, 5 info
  - the `error` response's property type changed from no type to `object` for status `400`
  - added the optional property `error/details` to the response with the `400` status
  - removed discriminator from `error` response property for the response status `400`
  - removed `#/components/schemas/InvalidRequestError, #/components/schemas/AuthenticationError, #/components/schemas/BillingError, #/components/schemas/PermissionError, #/components/schemas/NotFoundError, #/components/schemas/RateLimitError, #/components/schemas/GatewayTimeoutError, #/components/schemas/APIError, #/components/schemas/OverloadedError` from the `error` response property `oneOf` list for the response status `400`
  - …2 more
- **2026-10-21** `94c83daca660`: 1 warning
  - deleted the `header` request parameter `x-api-key`
- **2026-09-30** `51c5260134e8`: 1 info
  - endpoint added

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/anthropics/apis/anthropic-api/changes/v1/organizations/external_keys/:external_key_id/delete.md)

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