# Cancel an async job: `DELETE /v1/async/jobs/{job_id}`

Cost: free (0 (failed requests are free)). Docs: https://scrapercompany.com/docs/reference/async-jobs-cancel

Cancel queued and running items. Unfinished work is not billed.

Credits already captured for an item that was running, or that had
started and was put back on the queue, are returned. An item that
never started is not refunded. The completion webhook, when
configured, is still delivered. Free.

Parameters:

- `job_id` (string; required)

Base URL: `https://api.scrapercompany.com`. Auth: send your key in the `x-api-key` header. A failed request (4xx or 5xx) or an empty result costs 0 credits.

- [Full API reference as one Markdown file](https://scrapercompany.com/llms-full.txt)
- [OpenAPI spec](https://scrapercompany.com/openapi.json)