curl -X POST 'https://api.openai.com/v1/vector_stores/vector-store-id/file_batches/batch-id/cancel' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY"

# POST /vector_stores/{vector_store_id}/file_batches/{batch_id}/cancel (OpenAI API)
Base URL: https://api.openai.com/v1
Auth: Authorization; OpenAI API key; required.
Last verified: 2026-10-20

> Cancel vector store file batch

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## cURL
curl -X POST 'https://api.openai.com/v1/vector_stores/vector-store-id/file_batches/batch-id/cancel' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY"

## Parameters
| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| vector_store_id | path | string | Yes | The ID of the vector store that the file batch belongs to. |
| batch_id | path | string | Yes | The ID of the file batch to cancel. |

## Response example
{"id":"string","object":"vector_store.file_batch"}

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POST

POST /vector_stores/{vector_store_id}/file_batches/{batch_id}/cancel — OpenAI API

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OpenAI API

Cancel vector store file batch

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 POST 'https://api.openai.com/v1/vector_stores/vector-store-id/file_batches/batch-id/cancel' \  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY"

Parameters

Name	In	Type	Required	Description
vector_store_id	path	string	Yes	The ID of the vector store that the file batch belongs to.
batch_id	path	string	Yes	The ID of the file batch to cancel.

Response 200 OK

{
  "id": "string",
  "object": "vector_store.file_batch",
  "created_at": 0,
  "vector_store_id": "string",
  "status": "in_progress",
  "file_counts": {
    "in_progress": 0,
    "completed": 0,
    "failed": 0,
    "cancelled": 0,
    "total": 0
  }
}

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