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How to Disable Vultr API Access for Users

Updated on April 22, 2025

Disabling Application Programming Interface (API) access restricts users from accessing the Vultr account programmatically. This restriction applies to all linked API clients, such as the Linux cURL command, Vultr CLI, and modern programming language libraries.

Follow this guide to disable API access for users using the Vultr Customer Portal, API, or CLI.

  • Vultr Customer Portal
  • Vultr API
  • Vultr CLI

  1. Navigate to Account and select Users under OTHER.

  2. Select the user from the list and click the Edit User icon.

  3. Click Disable API under User API Key.

  1. Send a GET request to the Get Users endpoint and note the target user ID.

    console 
    $ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/users" \
    -X GET \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}"

  2. Send a PATCH request to the Update User endpoint and specify the user ID to disable API access for the target user.

    console 
    $ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/users/{user-id}" \
    -X PATCH \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}" \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    --data '{
        "api_enabled" : false     
    }'

    Visit the Update User endpoint to view additional attributes to add to your request.

  1. List all users and note the target user ID.

    console 
    $ vultr-cli users list

  2. Disable API access for the target user by specifying the user ID.

    console 
    $ vultr-cli users update <user-id> \
--api-enabled="false"

    Run vultr-cli users update --help to view all options.