> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.surnex.io/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Delete a project

> Permanently remove a project and everything collected for it.

Open the project, go to **Settings**, and click **Delete Project** in the **Danger Zone**. A dialog names the project and warns that all tracking data, audits, and keywords will be permanently removed. Confirm to delete.

You're returned to the Projects list.

## Who can delete

Deleting requires the **owner** or **admin** role. A member sees the button, but the request is rejected. See [Roles and permissions](/organizations/roles).

## What gets removed

Everything belonging to the project cascades from the delete, so nothing is left behind:

* Tracked keywords and their full position history
* Backlinks, referring domains, anchors, and new/lost history
* Every site audit and all crawled page data
* Domain overview metrics and detected tech stack
* AI search, GEO, local SEO, and web vitals history
* Saved keywords and research results
* Reports built on the project, and their shared links
* Its four collection schedules, and any report automations

Shared report links stop working immediately. Anyone holding one gets a not-found page.

## What survives

* The organization, its other projects, and its members
* Your plan and billing history
* API keys — they're organization-scoped, so they keep working for other projects

Deleting a project frees a slot against your plan's project limit right away.

<Warning>
  Deletion cannot be undone and there is no archive or trash. Ranking and backlink history is accumulated day by day — creating a new project for the same domain starts from zero, with no back-fill. A year of position history is gone permanently.
</Warning>

## Before you delete

If you might want the data later, export what you need first. Reports are the practical way to preserve a snapshot: build one covering the period you care about and [share or download it](/reports/share) before deleting.

Consider whether you actually need to delete. A project you stop looking at costs you a project slot, but the alternatives are worse if you're wrong:

| Situation                  | Better option                                                                  |
| -------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Site moved to a new domain | Create a second project so you keep the old history for comparison             |
| Client left, might return  | Keep the project unless you need the slot                                      |
| At your project limit      | [Upgrade](/billing/subscription), or delete the project with the least history |
| Too many keywords tracked  | Remove keywords instead — see [Add tracked keywords](/tracking/add-keywords)   |