---
title: "Permanently delete an image generator"
method: DELETE
path: "/image-generators/{generator_id}/permanent"
tags: ["image-generators"]
---

# Permanently delete an image generator

`DELETE /image-generators/{generator_id}/permanent`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.goodeye.dev/v1`
- URL: `https://api.goodeye.dev/v1/image-generators/{generator_id}/permanent`
- Auth: none declared

Permanently and immediately erase a **caller-owned** ``scope=user`` image generator. The generator, all its versions (provider config, model, parameters), all run records, and all anonymous run records are removed from the live system at once. There is no recovery path. Use ``DELETE /{generator_id}`` (revoke) to deactivate without erasing, keeping the audit trail intact. Serving gate: if any live published template version carries a snapshot that references this generator, deletion is refused (409). Unpublish the relevant template version(s) first, then retry. Platform ``scope=system`` generators and another user's generators always surface as 404. Encrypted backups age out within the platform's standard retention window (up to three months), so the data is not instantly erased from all systems everywhere, but it is no longer accessible through any product surface after this call. Returns ``{generator_id, name, deleted: true}``.

## Path parameters

- `generator_id` string, required

## Response `200`

Successful Response

- object

## Other responses

- `401`: Authentication required.
- `404`: Image generator not found, not owned by caller, or platform-managed (scope=system).
- `409`: Generator is referenced by a live published template version. Unpublish the template version(s) first.
- `422`: Validation Error

---

[API](https://skmtc.dev/goodeye/apis/goodeye-api.md) · [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/goodeye/apis/goodeye-api/llms.txt) · [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/goodeye/apis/goodeye-api/revisions/547cb8bb6ede?raw)