---
title: "Delete an empty private network (refuses while members exist)"
method: DELETE
path: "/preview/networks/{name}"
tags: ["networks"]
---

# Delete an empty private network (refuses while members exist)

`DELETE /preview/networks/{name}`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://autoresearch.sfcompute.com`
- URL: `https://autoresearch.sfcompute.com/preview/networks/{name}`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

Delete a private network, freeing its name and address block. SCOPE: one virtual network of your own workspace - the nodes themselves keep running, and create_network mints another any time. Refuses while ANY member rows exist: detach every node first (detach_network - detach is explicit, never a side effect of delete), and each detached address then sits in a 7-day quarantine that still counts as a member row - so a network becomes deletable at the earliest 7 days after its last detach (stale peers must drain before its addresses can ever mean someone else).

## Path parameters

- `name` string, required: Network name (from `list_networks`).

## Query parameters

- `workspace` string

## Response `200`

The capability's JSON result.

- Result: The capability's result: the same object the MCP tool returns as structuredContent. Resources carry an `object` type discriminator and an immutable id; money is integer micro-dollars in `*_usd_micros` fields.
  - `object` string: The resource type, when the result is one resource.

## Other responses

- `400`: Malformed request: bad JSON, a parameter that does not parse, or a value outside its range. Code `invalid`.
- `401`: No bearer token, or one this API cannot verify. Code `unauthenticated`.
- `403`: Authenticated, but the token's scopes or the account's role do not reach this operation. The message names the scope word to request. Code `forbidden`.
- `404`: No such route. Code `not_found`; the body names the OpenAPI document.
- `422`: A well-formed request the platform declined: no such node, a cap reached, a state that forbids the move. The message says which, and what to do instead. Code `refused`.
- `429`: Over this door's per-customer budget. Wait `Retry-After` seconds. Code `rate_limited`.
- `500`: Our fault. Retry; if it persists, quote the request-id. Code `internal`.

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