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

experimental[]

Deletes an {infer} model deployment.

IMPORTANT: The {infer} APIs enable you to use certain services, such as ELSER,
OpenAI, or Hugging Face, in your cluster. This is not the same feature that you
can use on an ML node with custom {ml} models. If you want to train and use your
own model, use the <<ml-df-trained-models-apis>>.


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

`DELETE /_inference/<model_id>`
`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>::
(Optional, 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
