---
title: "Release a session's capacity lease"
method: POST
path: "/v1/realtime/livekit/session/release"
tags: ["Realtime"]
---

# Release a session's capacity lease

`POST /v1/realtime/livekit/session/release`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://realtimeavatar.ai/api`
- URL: `https://realtimeavatar.ai/api/v1/realtime/livekit/session/release`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

Releases a held capacity lease immediately (client beacon on tab-close, terminal disconnect, or a superseded reconnect) so the GPU slot is freed instead of lingering until its TTL. Idempotent.

Requires an API key with the `realtime:write` scope.

## Request body

- LiveKitSessionReleaseRequest
  - `session_id` string
  - `queue_ticket_id` string
  - `reason` 'page_hide' | 'disconnected' | 'superseded' | 'unmount' | 'manual' | 'idle_timeout'
  - `capacity_pool` string

## Response `200`

Released

- OkResponse
  - `ok` boolean, required

## Other responses

- `401`: Missing, malformed, revoked, or expired key.
- `403`: The key lacks the scope for this operation, or the tenant is not active.
- `default`: Error. Route-dependent: 400 (a field this route cannot honour — see `portraitUrl` on `UpdateAvatarRequest`), 402 (insufficient credits or spend limit), 404 (no such avatar, voice, or key for this tenant — the message often reads "does not belong to this tenant", which is a missing id and not a permission failure), 408 (the request was cancelled), 409 (the resource is not in a state that accepts this write — a stale `expectedRevision`, a render already in flight, or a mint that asked for a clip library still building), 411 (`POST /v1/assets/remote` only — the origin serving `remoteUrl` sent no `content-length`, so the platform will not stream it), 422 (strict schema rejection, or a motion description the safety screen refused), 429 (rate limited), 502 (upstream render failed), 503 (a dependency this route needs is unavailable — retryable, and nothing was written), 504 (the upstream request budget expired), 500 (unhandled). Switch on `code` where present, else `status`.

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