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Delete an account ​

With Connect, you can delete accounts you manage.

Test-mode accounts can be deleted at any time.

Live-mode accounts that have access to the standard dashboard and Stripe is responsible for negative account balances cannot be deleted, which includes Standard accounts. All other Live-mode accounts, can be deleted when all balances are zero.

If you want to delete your own account, use the account information tab in your account settings instead.

Returns ​

Returns an object with a deleted parameter if the call succeeds. If the account ID does not exist, this call raises an error.

curl
curl -X DELETE https://api.stripe.com/v1/accounts/{{ACCOUNT_ID}} \
  -u "<<YOUR_SECRET_KEY>>"

Response ​

json
{
  "id": "acct_1Nv0FGQ9RKHgCVdK",
  "object": "account",
  "deleted": true
}

Stripe API Reference - Self-contained docs reference, refreshed 2026-05-18