> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.lighton.ai/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Delete a workspace > ⚠️ **ALPHA ENDPOINT** - This endpoint is in alpha and subject to breaking changes. Use with caution in production environments. Soft-delete a custom workspace you own. The workspace and its memberships are marked as deleted but retained for the configured recovery period; collection data (documents, chunks, embeddings) is preserved until the workspace is permanently deleted by the cleanup task. The workspace can be restored within the recovery period via `PATCH` with `deleted_at=null` (use `?include_deleted=true` to address it after deletion). **Restrictions:** - PERSONAL workspaces cannot be deleted (system-managed) - Caller must be an OWNER of the workspace (or hold instance/company workspace-delete permission) ## OpenAPI ````yaml /api-reference/openapi-v3.yaml delete /api/v3/workspaces/{id} openapi: 3.1.0 info: title: LightOn API version: 3.15.0 (v3) description: >- LightOn gives you an API to search, parse, and ingest documents at scale. Build knowledge-retrieval pipelines without managing vector databases or OCR models. servers: - url: https://paradigm.lighton.ai security: [] tags: - name: Agents description: Operations about agents - name: Threads description: Operations about agents conversation threads - name: Tools description: Operations about native tools - name: Models description: Operations about AI models - name: MCP description: Operations about MCP servers - name: Sources description: Operations about sources used by agents conversation threads - name: Artifacts description: Operations about artifacts generated by agents conversation threads - name: Agent description: >- Operations about agents (deprecated). Please use the 'Agents' API component instead. - name: Files description: Operations about files - name: Facets description: Operations about facets - name: Tags description: Operations about tags - name: Workspaces description: Operations about workspaces - name: Files Processing description: Operations about files processing - name: Users description: Operations about users - name: API Keys description: Operations about API keys - name: User Groups description: Operations about user groups - name: SCIM description: Operations about SCIM paths: /api/v3/workspaces/{id}: delete: tags: - Workspaces summary: Delete a workspace description: >- ⚠️ **ALPHA ENDPOINT** - This endpoint is in alpha and subject to breaking changes. Use with caution in production environments. Soft-delete a custom workspace you own. The workspace and its memberships are marked as deleted but retained for the configured recovery period; collection data (documents, chunks, embeddings) is preserved until the workspace is permanently deleted by the cleanup task. The workspace can be restored within the recovery period via `PATCH` with `deleted_at=null` (use `?include_deleted=true` to address it after deletion). **Restrictions:** - PERSONAL workspaces cannot be deleted (system-managed) - Caller must be an OWNER of the workspace (or hold instance/company workspace-delete permission) operationId: api_v3_workspaces_destroy parameters: - in: path name: id schema: type: integer description: The unique identifier of the workspace. required: true responses: '204': description: Workspace soft-deleted '401': content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/APIV3ErrorResponse' examples: Unauthorized: value: id: null code: 401 error: unauthorized detail: >- Authentication credentials were not provided or are invalid. doc_url: https://developers.lighton.ai/errors#unauthorized description: Authentication credentials were not provided or are invalid '403': content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/APIV3ErrorResponse' examples: Forbidden: value: id: null code: 403 error: insufficient_permissions detail: You do not have permission to perform this action. doc_url: >- https://developers.lighton.ai/errors#insufficient_permissions description: Insufficient permissions '404': content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/APIV3ErrorResponse' examples: NotFound: value: id: null code: 404 error: not_found detail: The requested resource was not found. doc_url: https://developers.lighton.ai/errors#not_found summary: Not Found description: The requested resource was not found '503': description: >- API is under maintenance. Check `GET /api/v3/system/status` for active periods and retry. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ServiceMaintenance503' security: - bearerAuth: [] - {} components: schemas: APIV3ErrorResponse: type: object properties: id: type: - string - 'null' description: >- Job/resource id when one already exists (useful for async error diagnosis); null otherwise. code: type: integer description: HTTP status code error: type: string description: Error code used by the UI as a translation key detail: type: string description: Human-readable error message for developers doc_url: type: string description: Link to the error-code documentation page required: - code - detail - doc_url - error - id ServiceMaintenance503: type: object description: >- Returned by the maintenance middleware when the requested endpoint is blocked. required: - detail - error - mode properties: detail: type: string example: System is under maintenance. error: type: string example: service_maintenance mode: type: string enum: - full_shutdown - warning_banner description: >- `full_shutdown` blocks all traffic; `warning_banner` also blocks and shows a dismissible toast. reason: type: string description: Operator-supplied maintenance reason, if any. started_at: type: string format: date-time endpoint_category_names: type: array items: type: string description: >- Non-empty only for category-scoped periods. Empty means all endpoints are affected. securitySchemes: bearerAuth: type: http scheme: bearer description: >- Bearer authentication header of the form `Bearer `, where `` is your auth token. ````