---
title: "Delete an endpoint"
description: "Delete a Model Endpoint from the list or its details page, and see what happens to its VPC IP, alerts, model files, and a committed plan."
content_type: "how-to"
product: "model-endpoints"
platform: "TIR"
url: "/tir/model-endpoints/how-to/delete-an-endpoint/"
topic: ["delete"]
---

# Delete an endpoint

Delete an endpoint once you are finished with it. Deleting removes the endpoint, its workers, and its address. You can delete an endpoint in any state. To stop paying for compute but keep the endpoint's settings and address, [stop the endpoint](/tir/model-endpoints/how-to/stop-start-and-restart-an-endpoint/) instead.

## Before you begin

- Permission to delete model endpoints in the project. A Member needs a policy that grants delete permission for the Inference service.
- Waited for any VPC IP attach on the endpoint to finish. The delete is refused while an attach is in progress.

## Delete the endpoint

Deleting is permanent. On a committed plan the delete ends the endpoint at once, and the committed charge, already paid for the whole term, is not refunded.

1. In **Model Endpoints**, find the endpoint. Under **Actions**, or in the **Actions** menu on its details page, select **Delete**.
2. Tick "I understand and want to delete endpoint service `<name>`".
3. Select **Delete**.

TIR deletes the endpoint and emails you, with the project's Owner and Admins in copy.

## What the delete removes and keeps

- An attached VPC IP is detached from the endpoint.
- The endpoint's security-group rules and its alerts are removed.
- Your Model Repository and its files stay as they are, even though **Delete Service** mentions deleting the objects within the model.
- The endpoint's name is free again, so a new endpoint can use it.

## Check the result

The endpoint is gone from the list. If the delete fails, the portal shows "Unable to delete inference" or the reason; see [Troubleshooting Model Endpoints](/tir/model-endpoints/troubleshooting/model-endpoints/). To remove the model files as well, see [Delete a repository](/tir/model-repository/how-to/delete-a-repository/).