[role="xpack"]
[[delete-inference-api]]
=== Delete {infer} API

experimental[]

Deletes an {infer} model deployment.


[discrete]
[[delete-inference-api-request]]
==== {api-request-title}

`DELETE /_inference/<task_type>/<model_id>`

[discrete]
[[delete-inference-api-prereqs]]
==== {api-prereq-title}

* Requires the `manage` <<privileges-list-cluster,cluster privilege>>.


[discrete]
[[delete-inference-api-path-params]]
==== {api-path-parms-title}

<model_id>::
(Required, string)
The unique identifier of the {infer} model to delete.

<task_type>::
(Required, string)
The type of {infer} task that the model performs.


[discrete]
[[delete-inference-api-example]]
==== {api-examples-title}

The following API call deletes the `my-elser-model` {infer} model that can 
perform `sparse_embedding` tasks.


[source,console]
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DELETE /_inference/sparse_embedding/my-elser-model
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// TEST[skip:TBD]


The API returns the following response:

[source,console-result]
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{
  "acknowledged": true
}
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// NOTCONSOLE