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- POSTCreate a contact
- GETRetrieve a contact
- GETRetrieve contacts
- POSTMerge two contacts
- PATCHUpdate a contact
- DELArchive a contact
- GETGet Lifecycle Stage metrics for Contacts
- GETGet a contact by email address
- GETGet a batch of contacts by email address
- GETGet a batch of contacts by user token
- GETGet Contact Statistics
- GETGet a contact by its user token
- GETGet a batch of contacts by vid
- GETGet a contact by vid
- GETGet all contacts
- GETGet recently created contacts
- GETGet recently updated and created contacts
- GETSearch for contacts by email
- DELDelete a secondary email address
- PATCHCreate a new contact
- POSTCreate or update a group of contacts
- POSTCreate or update a contact by email
- POSTUpdate an existing contact by email
- POSTMerge contacts
- POSTCreate a new contact
- POSTUpdate a contact by vid
- GETSearch for contacts by email, name, phone number, or company
- PATCHCreate a new contact
- PUTUpdate a secondary email address
- PUTUpdate a secondary email address
- POSTCreate or update a group of contacts
- DELDelete a contact
- DELDelete a secondary email address
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Delete a contact
curl --request DELETE \
--url https://api.hubapi.com/contacts/v1/contact/vid/{contact_id}{
"vid": 61571,
"deleted": true,
"reason": "OK"
}v1
Delete a contact
Delete an existing contact from a particular HubSpot portal. If a contact with the same email address interacts with the portal again (via a form submission for example) the contact will be added back into the user interface.
DELETE
/
contacts
/
v1
/
contact
/
vid
/
{contact_id}
Delete a contact
curl --request DELETE \
--url https://api.hubapi.com/contacts/v1/contact/vid/{contact_id}{
"vid": 61571,
"deleted": true,
"reason": "OK"
}Documentation Index
Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://developers.hubspot.com/docs/llms.txt
Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.
Scope requirements
Scope requirements
Path Parameters
You must pass the Contact's ID that you're deleting in the request URL. See the example URL below for an example of this.
Response
200 - application/json
Successful response - Delete an existing contact from a particular HubSpot portal
The response is of type object.
Last modified on March 30, 2026
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