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# Delete a collection

DELETE http://localhost:6333/collections/{collection_name}

Drops the specified collection and all associated data in it.

Reference: https://api.qdrant.tech/api-reference/collections/delete-collection

## Authentication

- `api-key` header (required) — API Key authentication via header

## Servers

- `http://localhost:6333` (http, default)
- `https://localhost:6333` (https)

## Request

### Path parameters

- `collection_name` (string, required) — Name of the collection to delete

### Query parameters

- `timeout` (integer, optional) — Wait for operation commit timeout in seconds. If timeout is reached - request will return with service error.

## Response

### 200

successful operation

- `usage` (CollectionsCollectionNameDeleteResponsesContentApplicationJsonSchemaUsage, optional)
- `time` (double, optional) — Time spent to process this request
- `status` (string, optional)
- `result` (boolean, optional)

## Types

### CollectionsCollectionNameDeleteResponsesContentApplicationJsonSchemaUsage

### Usage

Usage of the hardware resources, spent to process the request

- `hardware` (UsageHardware, optional)
- `inference` (UsageInference, optional)

### UsageHardware

### UsageInference

### HardwareUsage

Usage of the hardware resources, spent to process the request

- `cpu` (integer, required)
- `payload_io_read` (integer, required)
- `payload_io_write` (integer, required)
- `payload_index_io_read` (integer, required)
- `payload_index_io_write` (integer, required)
- `vector_io_read` (integer, required)
- `vector_io_write` (integer, required)

### InferenceUsage

- `models` (map from string to ModelUsage, required)

### ModelUsage

- `tokens` (uint64, required)

## Examples

**Response**

```json
{
  "usage": {
    "hardware": {
      "cpu": 1,
      "payload_io_read": 1,
      "payload_io_write": 1,
      "payload_index_io_read": 1,
      "payload_index_io_write": 1,
      "vector_io_read": 1,
      "vector_io_write": 1
    },
    "inference": {
      "models": {}
    }
  },
  "time": 0.002,
  "status": "ok",
  "result": true
}
```

**SDK Code**

```python
from qdrant_client import QdrantClient

client = QdrantClient(url="http://localhost:6333")

client.delete_collection(collection_name="{collection_name}")

```

```java
import io.qdrant.client.QdrantClient;
import io.qdrant.client.QdrantGrpcClient;

QdrantClient client =
    new QdrantClient(QdrantGrpcClient.newBuilder("localhost", 6334, false).build());

client.deleteCollectionAsync("{collection_name}").get();

```

```go
package client

import (
	"context"

	"github.com/qdrant/go-client/qdrant"
)

func deleteCollection() {
	client, err := qdrant.NewClient(&qdrant.Config{
		Host: "localhost",
		Port: 6334,
	})
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}

	err = client.DeleteCollection(context.Background(), "{collection_name}")
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
}

```

```typescript
import { QdrantClient } from '@qdrant/qdrant-js';

const client = new QdrantClient({url: 'http://127.0.0.1:6333'});

client.deleteCollection("{collection_name}");

```

```rust
use qdrant_client::Qdrant;

let client = Qdrant::from_url("http://localhost:6334").build()?;

client.delete_collection("{collection_name}").await?;

```

```csharp
using Qdrant.Client;

var client = new QdrantClient("localhost", 6334);

await client.DeleteCollectionAsync("{collection_name}");

```

```ruby
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("http://localhost:6333/collections/collection_name")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)

request = Net::HTTP::Delete.new(url)
request["api-key"] = '<apiKey>'

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body
```

```php
<?php
require_once('vendor/autoload.php');

$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();

$response = $client->request('DELETE', 'http://localhost:6333/collections/collection_name', [
  'headers' => [
    'api-key' => '<apiKey>',
  ],
]);

echo $response->getBody();
```

```swift
import Foundation

let headers = ["api-key": "<apiKey>"]

let request = NSMutableURLRequest(url: NSURL(string: "http://localhost:6333/collections/collection_name")! as URL,
                                        cachePolicy: .useProtocolCachePolicy,
                                    timeoutInterval: 10.0)
request.httpMethod = "DELETE"
request.allHTTPHeaderFields = headers

let session = URLSession.shared
let dataTask = session.dataTask(with: request as URLRequest, completionHandler: { (data, response, error) -> Void in
  if (error != nil) {
    print(error as Any)
  } else {
    let httpResponse = response as? HTTPURLResponse
    print(httpResponse)
  }
})

dataTask.resume()
```