---
title: "Delete Account"
method: POST
path: "/admin/delete_account"
tags: ["accepts-api-key"]
---

# Delete Account

`POST /admin/delete_account`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.tellers.ai` (the document declares no server; this is the origin it was published from)
- URL: `https://api.tellers.ai/admin/delete_account`
- Auth: none declared

Delete an account everywhere it exists, streaming progress (SSE). Admin only.

Purges, in order: the signup-history record (written first so a crash cannot
hand the email a second free grant), Stripe subscriptions, the upload-post
profile, the user's assets and projects, their chats, the groups they solely
own, the SQL user row, and finally the S3 objects and the Firebase account.

The Stripe *customer* is kept so invoices and tax records stay queryable —
it is never reused anyway, since customers are resolved by
``metadata.firebaseUID`` and a re-registration gets a fresh uid.

**Firebase deletion only happens in production.** Staging points at the
production Firebase project, so deleting there would destroy a real login;
outside production the account is left alone and the reason is reported.

## Headers

- `x-api-key` string, nullable
- `authorization` string, nullable

## Request body

- DeleteAccountRequest
  - `email` string, required: Email of the account to delete
  - `confirm_email` string, required: Must repeat ``email`` exactly (case-insensitive); the request is rejected otherwise. Deletion is irreversible.
  - `dry_run` boolean: Defaults to **true**: the request previews and deletes nothing. Send `false` to actually delete the account. Same default as `DELETE /users/me`, and the same `done` event either way — check its `dry_run` field to see which you got.

## Response `200`

Server-sent events. `progress` events report each stage as it happens; the final `done` event is the object below — a summary of what was deleted, or, on a dry run, a `preview` of what would be.

## Other responses

- `422`: Validation Error

---

[API](https://skmtc.dev/tellers/apis/tellers-api.md) - [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/tellers/apis/tellers-api/llms.txt) - [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/tellers/apis/tellers-api/revisions/fdaa0fa44a26?raw)