curl -X DELETE 'https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/convai/agents/agent-id?force=false' \
  -H "xi-api-key: $ELEVENLABS_API_KEY"

# DELETE /v1/convai/agents/{agent_id} (ElevenLabs API)
Base URL: https://api.elevenlabs.io
Auth: xi-api-key: <ELEVENLABS_API_KEY>
Last verified: 2026-10-20

> Delete Agent

## Critical Gotchas
* Authentication uses the non-standard `xi-api-key` header, not `Authorization: Bearer`. Sending a Bearer token returns HTTP 401.
* Text-to-speech responses are raw binary audio, not JSON. Write the body to a file (`--output speech.mp3`) rather than parsing it.

## cURL
curl -X DELETE 'https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/convai/agents/agent-id?force=false' \
  -H "xi-api-key: $ELEVENLABS_API_KEY"

## Parameters
| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| agent_id | path | string | Yes | The id of an agent. This is returned on agent creation. |
| force | query | boolean | No | If set to true, the agent is deleted even if other agents... |

## Response (200 OK)
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DELETE

DELETE /v1/convai/agents/{agent_id} — ElevenLabs API

ElevenLabs API

Delete Agent

Base URL: https://api.elevenlabs.io
Auth: xi-api-key: <ELEVENLABS_API_KEY>
Last verified: 2026-10-20 · upstream hash matched

Actions Try in browser→

Agents: curl -H "Accept: text/markdown" this URL
→ 194 tokens · Vary: Accept

Critical gotchas

Authentication uses the non-standard xi-api-key header, not Authorization: Bearer. Sending a Bearer token returns HTTP 401.

Text-to-speech responses are raw binary audio, not JSON. Write the body to a file (--output speech.mp3) rather than parsing it.

cURL

curl -X DELETE 'https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/convai/agents/agent-id?force=false' \  -H "xi-api-key: $ELEVENLABS_API_KEY"

Parameters

Name	In	Type	Required	Description
agent_id	path	string	Yes	The id of an agent. This is returned on agent creation.
force	query	boolean	No	If set to true, the agent is deleted even if other agents use it as a subagent, and it is removed from those agents and their branches.

Response 200 OK

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