---
title: "Delete a snapshot (key-deletion, irreversible)"
method: DELETE
path: "/preview/snapshots/{id}"
tags: ["snapshots"]
---

# Delete a snapshot (key-deletion, irreversible)

`DELETE /preview/snapshots/{id}`

## Request

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

Delete a snapshot permanently. SCOPE: one snapshot of your own node disk, inside your own workspace - no other tenant's bytes are reachable from here, and freeing a snapshot that has served its purpose is the expected housekeeping (it bills stored bytes until deleted). Deletion is key-deletion: the stored object becomes unreadable everywhere at once, irreversibly, and every FUTURE create_node(from_snapshot) of it is refused. Nodes already restored from it keep their own volumes and are unaffected. Frees the org's snapshot bound (count and bytes).

## Path parameters

- `id` string, required: Snapshot id (snap-..., from list_snapshots).

## 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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