---
title: "Delete a customer."
method: DELETE
path: "/customer/{customer_id}"
tags: ["customers"]
---

# Delete a customer.

`DELETE /customer/{customer_id}`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.replicated.com/vendor/v3`
- URL: `https://api.replicated.com/vendor/v3/customer/{customer_id}`
- Auth: API key in header `Authorization`

Permanently delete a customer, removing all their data including licenses and access to associated resources.
This action is irreversible. For temporary deactivation, use the archive endpoint instead.

Safety Restriction: Only development customers (type: "dev") can be deleted.
Attempting to delete customers of other types (prod, trial, community, test) will return a 400 Bad Request error.

Required RBAC Policy: kots/license/[:customerid]/delete
and kots/app/[:appid]/license/[:customerid]/delete

## Path parameters

- `customer_id` string, required

## Response `204`

On success, no payload returned

## Other responses

- `400`: Returned on bad input
- `401`: Return if the caller is not authorized
- `403`: Returned if the caller does not have the needed permission
- `404`: Returned on resource not found

## Changes

- **2026-11-03** `a36c6aead22f`: 1 info
  - endpoint added

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/replicated/apis/vendor-api-v3-2/changes/customer/:customer_id/delete.md)

---

[API](https://skmtc.dev/replicated/apis/vendor-api-v3-2.md) - [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/replicated/apis/vendor-api-v3-2/llms.txt) - [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/replicated/apis/vendor-api-v3-2/revisions/a36c6aead22f?raw)