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How to Delete a VPC Network from a Vultr Account

Updated on 12 September, 2025

Permanently removes the selected resource from your Vultr account.

Deleting a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) network removes routing information and deactivates the associated interfaces on any attached instances.

Follow this guide to delete a VPC network using the Vultr Customer Portal, API, CLI, or Terraform.

  • Vultr Customer Portal
  • Vultr API
  • Vultr CLI
  • Terraform
  1. Navigate to Products, expand the Network drop-down and select VPC Networks from the list of options.
  2. Select your target VPC network to open its management page.
  3. Click Delete VPC Network.
  4. Click Delete VPC Network in the confirmation prompt to destroy the VPC network.

  1. Send a GET request to the List VPCs endpoint and note the target VPC network's ID in your output.

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

  2. Send a DELETE request to the Delete a VPC endpoint to destroy the target VPC network.

    console 
    $ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/vpcs/{vpc-id}" \
  -X DELETE \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}"

  1. List all VPC networks in your Vultr account and note the target VPC network's ID.

    console 
    $ vultr-cli vpc list

  2. Delete the VPC network.

    console 
    $ vultr-cli vpc delete <vpc-id>

  1. Open your Terraform configuration where the VPC is defined.

  2. Remove the vultr_vpc resource block, or destroy it by target.

    terraform 
    resource "vultr_vpc" "net" {
    region      = "ewr"
    description = "example-vpc"
}

# To delete, either remove this block from configuration
# or run: terraform destroy -target vultr_vpc.net

  3. Apply the configuration and observe the following output:

    Apply complete! Resources: 0 added, 0 changed, 1 destroyed.

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