curl -X DELETE 'https://api.openai.com/v1/organization/admin_api_keys/key-id' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_ADMIN_KEY"

# DELETE /organization/admin_api_keys/{key_id} (OpenAI API)
Base URL: https://api.openai.com/v1
Auth: Authorization; OpenAI admin key; required.
Last verified: 2026-10-20

> Delete admin API key

## Critical Gotchas
* The Responses API is the primary interface for new text and tool workflows; Chat Completions remains a separate compatibility API.
* Audio transcription uploads use multipart form data rather than a JSON request body.

## cURL
curl -X DELETE 'https://api.openai.com/v1/organization/admin_api_keys/key-id' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_ADMIN_KEY"

## Parameters
| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| key_id | path | string | Yes | path parameter key_id. |

## Response example
{"id":"key_abc","object":"organization.admin_api_key.deleted","deleted":true}

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DELETE

DELETE /organization/admin_api_keys/{key_id} — OpenAI API

OpenAI admin key (required); https://api.openai.com/v1

OpenAI API

Delete admin API key

Base URL: https://api.openai.com/v1
Auth: Authorization: Bearer <OPENAI_API_KEY>
Last verified: 2026-10-20 · upstream hash matched

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Critical gotchas

The Responses API is the primary interface for new text and tool workflows; Chat Completions remains a separate compatibility API.

Audio transcription uploads use multipart form data rather than a JSON request body.

cURL

curl -X DELETE 'https://api.openai.com/v1/organization/admin_api_keys/key-id' \  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_ADMIN_KEY"

Parameters

Name	In	Type	Required	Description
key_id	path	string	Yes	path parameter key_id.

Response 200 OK

{
  "id": "key_abc",
  "object": "organization.admin_api_key.deleted",
  "deleted": true
}

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