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title: Delete all payment rules
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# Delete all payment rules

DELETE/zones/{zone\_id}/monetization/rules

Removes every Payment Required rule from the zone. Any rules the service does not own are preserved. Deleting a zone with no payment rules is a no-op. Returns the resulting (empty) rule collection.

##### Security

<details>

<summary>API Token</summary>



The preferred authorization scheme for interacting with the Cloudflare API. <a href="https://developers.cloudflare.com/fundamentals/api/get-started/create-token/">Create a token</a>.

**Example:**<code>Authorization: Bearer Sn3lZJTBX6kkg7OdcBUAxOO963GEIyGQqnFTOFYY</code>

</details>

<details>

<summary>API Email + API Key</summary>



The previous authorization scheme for interacting with the Cloudflare API, used in conjunction with a Global API key.

**Example:**<code>X-Auth-Email: user@example.com</code>

The previous authorization scheme for interacting with the Cloudflare API. When possible, use API tokens instead of Global API keys.

**Example:**<code>X-Auth-Key: 144c9defac04969c7bfad8efaa8ea194</code>

</details>

##### P ath ParametersExpand Collapse

zone\_id: string

The unique ID of the zone.

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<details>

<summary>

errors: array of object {code, message }

</summary>

code: optional number

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message: optional string

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</details>

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<details>

<summary>

messages: array of object {code, message }

</summary>

code: optional number

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message: optional string

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<details>

<summary>

result: <a href="https://developers.cloudflare.com/api/resources/monetization#(resource)%20monetization.rules%20%3E%20(model)%20monetization_rule_collection%20%3E%20(schema)">MonetizationRuleCollection</a> { rules }

The zone’s payment rules. Mirrors the shape of the ruleset submitted to the deploy endpoint, so the response can be read back as the desired state.

</summary>

<details>

<summary>

rules: array of <a href="https://developers.cloudflare.com/api/resources/monetization#(resource)%20monetization.rules%20%3E%20(model)%20monetization_rule%20%3E%20(schema)">MonetizationRule</a>

The zone’s payment rules, in the order they are evaluated. Empty when the zone has no payment rules.

</summary>

One of the following:

<details>

<summary>

MonetizationRulesMonetizationRuleInputFixedPrice = <a href="https://developers.cloudflare.com/api/resources/monetization#(resource)%20monetization.rules%20%3E%20(model)%20monetization_rule_input_fixed_price%20%3E%20(schema)">MonetizationRuleInputFixedPrice</a> { address, expression, price, 4 more }

Payment rule with a fixed price set at configuration time.

</summary>

id: string

The server-assigned unique ID of the payment rule. Stable across full-ruleset replacements.

maxLength32

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</details>

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<details>

<summary>

MonetizationRulesMonetizationRuleInputOriginControlled = <a href="https://developers.cloudflare.com/api/resources/monetization#(resource)%20monetization.rules%20%3E%20(model)%20monetization_rule_input_origin_controlled%20%3E%20(schema)">MonetizationRuleInputOriginControlled</a> { address, expression, scheme, 3 more }

Payment rule whose price the origin server sets dynamically. The rule carries no price and the price field must be omitted — any provided value, including “0”, is rejected because it would not be enforced.

</summary>

id: string

The server-assigned unique ID of the payment rule. Stable across full-ruleset replacements.

maxLength32

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success: true

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### Delete all payment rules

HTTP

HTTPTypeScriptPythonGoTerraform

```
curl https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/zones/$ZONE_ID/monetization/rules \
    -X DELETE \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer $CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN"
```

200 example

```
{
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": 0,
      "message": "message"
    }
  ],
  "messages": [
    {
      "code": 0,
      "message": "message"
    }
  ],
  "result": {
    "rules": [
      {
        "address": "0x1234567890abcdef1234567890abcdef12345678===",
        "expression": "(http.request.uri.path eq \"/premium\" and http.request.method in {\"GET\" \"POST\"})",
        "price": "250000",
        "scheme": "exact",
        "id": "023e105f4ecef8ad9ca31a8372d0c353",
        "description": "Premium API endpoint",
        "enabled": true
      }
    ]
  },
  "success": true
}
```

##### Returns Examples

200 example

```
{
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": 0,
      "message": "message"
    }
  ],
  "messages": [
    {
      "code": 0,
      "message": "message"
    }
  ],
  "result": {
    "rules": [
      {
        "address": "0x1234567890abcdef1234567890abcdef12345678===",
        "expression": "(http.request.uri.path eq \"/premium\" and http.request.method in {\"GET\" \"POST\"})",
        "price": "250000",
        "scheme": "exact",
        "id": "023e105f4ecef8ad9ca31a8372d0c353",
        "description": "Premium API endpoint",
        "enabled": true
      }
    ]
  },
  "success": true
}
```