# terminate environment

| **Description** | Allocates a new compute task     |
| --------------- | -------------------------------- |
| **Endpoint**    | `/compute/{computeId}/terminate` |
| **Method**      | POST                             |

### Access Level Rules

| **Minimum Access Level** | Account holder only. |
| ------------------------ | -------------------- |

### Processing Units

| **Processing units** | 1 |
| -------------------- | - |

### Parameters

<table><thead><tr><th>Name</th><th width="221">Description</th><th>Required</th><th>Default</th><th data-hidden>Required</th><th data-hidden>Default</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><code>computeId</code></td><td>The id of the compute environment to terminate</td><td>true</td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>

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