---
title: "Schedule a project's deletion — its data is deleted when the grace ends (owner/admin; name-confirmed)"
method: DELETE
path: "/v1/projects/{project_id}"
tags: ["projects"]
---

# Schedule a project's deletion — its data is deleted when the grace ends (owner/admin; name-confirmed)

`DELETE /v1/projects/{project_id}`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.wavehouse.cloud`
- URL: `https://api.wavehouse.cloud/v1/projects/{project_id}`
- Auth: one of:
  - API key in cookie `whc_session`
  - HTTP bearer
  - API key in header `X-API-Key`

Scheduled, not immediate: the project pauses and stops counting toward the plan's projects, extra-project fee and add-ons at once; its data is torn down at the returned `destroy_after` (`deletion_grace_seconds` from now), and cancel-project-deletion reverses it until then. The org's owners and admins are emailed when it is scheduled, cancelled and done.

## Path parameters

- `project_id` string, required

## Request body

- DeleteProjectInput
  - `confirm_name` string, required: type the project's exact name to confirm deletion

## Response `202`

Accepted

- DeleteProjectOutput
  - `destroy_after` string, date-time, required: when the project's data is deleted unless the deletion is cancelled first
  - `status` string, required

## Other responses

- `429`: Rate limited, per client IP, API key or org; a client IP is also refused on every route for a while after repeated authentication failures. A limited operation carries RateLimit-Policy and RateLimit on every response; wait Retry-After seconds before retrying.
- `default`: Error

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