Models
Requests

Delete request payloads

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Deletes the IO payloads and associated CDN output files for a specific request.

Important:

  • Only output CDN files are deleted (input files may be used by other requests)
  • This action is irreversible

What gets deleted:

  • Request input/output payload data
  • CDN-hosted output files (images, videos, etc.)

What is NOT deleted:

  • Input CDN files (may be referenced by other requests)

Response:

  • Returns deletion status for each CDN file
  • Each result includes the file link and any error that occurred

Idempotency:

  • Optional Idempotency-Key header prevents duplicate deletions on retries
  • Responses cached for 10 minutes per unique key

See fal.ai docs for more details about request payloads.

Required permissions: models:requests:write, assets:write. Key presets that include them: FULL. See key permissions.

delete/models/requests/{request_id}/payloads

Request

  • Base URL
    https://api.fal.ai/v1
  • URL
    https://api.fal.ai/v1/models/requests/{request_id}/payloads
  • Auth
    API key in header Authorization

Path parameters

request_idstring uuid required

Unique identifier for the request (UUID format)

Example:a1b2c3d4-e5f6-7890-abcd-ef1234567890

Headers

Idempotency-Keystring

Optional idempotency key for safe request retries

Example:550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000

Response

Request payloads deleted successfully

Example response

{
  "cdn_delete_results": [
    {
      "link": "https://v3.fal.media/files/example/output.png"
    }
  ]
}

Changes

    • info

      the endpoint scheme security fullApiKey was added to the API

    • info

      the endpoint scheme security adminApiKey was removed from the API