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How to Delete Reserved IPs

Validated on 27 Feb 2025 • Last edited on 17 Apr 2025

DigitalOcean Reserved IPs are publicly-accessible static IPv4 addresses. Assign and reassign reserved IP addresses to Droplets as needed, or implement an automated failover mechanism with reserved IPs to build a high availability infrastructure. IPv6 support is now available in public preview. Enroll in the feature preview to create reserved IPv6 addresses.

Deleting a reserved IP unassigns it and permanently removes it from your account.

Delete an Assigned IP Using Automation

How to Delete a Reserved IP Using the DigitalOcean CLI

Install doctl, the official DigitalOcean CLI.
Create a personal access token and save it for use with doctl.
Use the token to grant doctl access to your DigitalOcean account.
```
doctl auth init
```
Finally, run doctl compute reserved-ip delete. Basic usage looks like this, but you can read the usage docs for more details:
```
doctl compute reserved-ip delete <reserved-ip> [flags]
```
The following example deletes the reserved IP address 203.0.113.25:
```
doctl compute reserved-ip delete 203.0.113.25
```

How to Delete a Reserved IP Using the DigitalOcean API

Create a personal access token and save it for use with the API.
Send a DELETE request to https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/reserved_ips/{reserved_ip}.

cURL

Using cURL:

curl -X DELETE \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $DIGITALOCEAN_TOKEN" \
  "https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/reserved_ips/45.55.96.47"

Go

Using Godo, the official DigitalOcean API client for Go:

import (
    "context"
    "os"

    "github.com/digitalocean/godo"
)

func main() {
    token := os.Getenv("DIGITALOCEAN_TOKEN")

    client := godo.NewFromToken(token)
    ctx := context.TODO()

    _, err := client.ReservedIPs.Delete(ctx, "45.55.96.34")
}

Ruby

Using DropletKit, the official DigitalOcean API client for Ruby:

require 'droplet_kit'
token = ENV['DIGITALOCEAN_TOKEN']
client = DropletKit::Client.new(access_token: token)

client.reserved_ips.delete(ip: '45.55.96.47')

Python

Using PyDo, the official DigitalOcean API client for Python:

import os
from pydo import Client

client = Client(token=os.environ.get("DIGITALOCEAN_TOKEN"))

resp = client.reserved_ips.delete(reserved_ip="45.55.96.47")

To delete a reserved IPv6 address (currently available in public preview) instead of IPv4, replace reserved-ip with reserved-ipv6 in the previous examples.

Delete an Assigned IP Using the Control Panel

To delete a reserved IP from the control panel, click Networking in the main menu, then click the Reserved IPs tab. Open the More menu of the reserved IP you want to delete, then click Delete.

In the confirmation window, click Delete Reserved IP to perform the deletion.