---
title: "Delete an account"
method: DELETE
path: "/v1/accounts/{account}"
---

# Delete an account

`DELETE /v1/accounts/{account}`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.stripe.com`
- URL: `https://api.stripe.com/v1/accounts/{account}`
- Auth: one of:
  - HTTP basic
  - HTTP bearer

With [Connect](/connect), you can delete accounts you manage.

Test-mode accounts can be deleted at any time.

Live-mode accounts that have access to the standard dashboard and Stripe is responsible for negative account balances cannot be deleted, which includes Standard accounts. All other Live-mode accounts, can be deleted when all [balances](/api/balance/balance_object) are zero.

If you want to delete your own account, use the [account information tab in your account settings](https://dashboard.stripe.com/settings/account) instead.

## Path parameters

- `account` string, required

## Response `200`

Successful response.

- DeletedAccount
  - `deleted` true, required: Always true for a deleted object
  - `id` string, required: Unique identifier for the object.
  - `object` 'account', required: String representing the object's type. Objects of the same type share the same value.

## Other responses

- `default`: Error response.

## Changes

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- **2026-09-25** `8b5c2f03d4cd`: 11 info
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  - added the optional property `error/payment_intent/latest_charge/anyOf[subschema #2: Charge]/payment_method_details/anyOf[subschema #1: payment_method_details]/card/mandate/anyOf[subschema #2: Mandate]/payment_method_details/card/india` to the response with the `default` status
  - added the optional property `error/payment_intent/latest_charge/anyOf[subschema #2: Charge]/payment_method_details/anyOf[subschema #1: payment_method_details]/ideal/generated_sepa_debit_mandate/anyOf[subschema #2: Mandate]/payment_method_details/card/india` to the response with the `default` status
  - added the optional property `error/payment_intent/latest_charge/anyOf[subschema #2: Charge]/payment_method_details/anyOf[subschema #1: payment_method_details]/sofort/generated_sepa_debit_mandate/anyOf[subschema #2: Mandate]/payment_method_details/card/india` to the response with the `default` status
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[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/stainless-api/apis/stripe-api/changes/v1/accounts/:account/delete.md)

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