---
title: "Delete User Profile"
method: DELETE
path: "/v1/user_profiles/{user_profile_id}"
---

# Delete User Profile

`DELETE /v1/user_profiles/{user_profile_id}`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.anthropic.com`
- URL: `https://api.anthropic.com/v1/user_profiles/{user_profile_id}`
- Auth: none declared

## Path parameters

- `user_profile_id` string, required

## 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).
- `anthropic-workspace-id` string

## Response `200`

Successful response (OK)

- DeletedUserProfile
  - `id` string, required: Identifier of the deleted user profile, prefixed `uprof_`.
  - `type` 'user_profile_deleted', required: Object type. Always `user_profile_deleted`.

## 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

## Changes

- **2026-10-21** `94c83daca660`: 1 warning
  - deleted the `header` request parameter `x-api-key`
- **2026-10-19** `b8225d432262`: 1 info
  - endpoint added

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

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