---
title: "Delete a creative"
method: DELETE
path: "/api/v3/creatives/{creativeId}"
tags: ["V3 Creatives"]
---

# Delete a creative

`DELETE /api/v3/creatives/{creativeId}`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://app.formbricks.com`
- URL: `https://app.formbricks.com/api/v3/creatives/{creativeId}`
- Auth: one of:
  - API key in cookie `next-auth.session-token`
  - API key in header `x-api-key`
  - HTTP bearer

Deletes a creative and its Impression and Click counts for good. Survey displays and responses it opened keep the creative they recorded. Read/write access to its workspace; an unknown or inaccessible `creativeId` answers **403**. To set a creative aside and keep its counts, archive it instead. Deleting the last creative that opens a live app survey with no actions of its own succeeds; that survey then shows nowhere until a creative or an action opens it again.

## Path parameters

- `creativeId` string, cuid2, required

## Response `204`

Creative deleted

## Other responses

- `400`: Bad Request — malformed JSON, invalid query/body/params, duplicate name, or unsupported field.
- `401`: Not authenticated (no valid session or API key).
- `403`: Forbidden, one of two codes. `forbidden`: the caller lacks the workspace access the operation needs, or the creative does not exist (404 is not used, so creative ids cannot be probed for existence). `creatives_not_entitled`: Creatives is not available on this instance (Formbricks Cloud, or a self-hosted license that does not include it). It is checked only after the caller's own access, so it says nothing about a workspace the caller cannot see. A workspace that still has creatives is in wind-down: listing, reading, stats, a PATCH that sets nothing but `status` to `paused` or `completed`, pausing a survey's creatives (`POST /api/v3/creatives/pause`), and DELETE keep working, and everything else answers this. A workspace without creatives answers it on every operation.
- `429`: Rate limit exceeded.
- `500`: Internal Server Error.

## Changes

- **2026-10-28** `84820a01e550`: 15 warning
  - added the new `chart_in_use` enum value to the `code` response property for the response status `400`
  - added the new `chart_in_use` enum value to the `code` response property for the response status `401`
  - added the new `chart_in_use` enum value to the `code` response property for the response status `403`
  - added the new `chart_in_use` enum value to the `code` response property for the response status `429`
  - …11 more
- **2026-10-27** `aad5dc1d8236`: 1 info
  - endpoint added

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/formbricks/apis/formbricks-api-v3/changes/api/v3/creatives/:creativeId/delete.md)

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