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Delete suppressed profiles for good, eyes wide open

Klaviyo has no "delete my suppressed profiles" button; the native path is export, rebuild a list, then a buried maintenance tab. This finds every suppressed profile, groups them by why they're suppressed, backs them up, and submits permanent deletion jobs, for data hygiene and privacy compliance.

⚷ your API key is used in-memory for this run and never reaches our servers · save it in Settings to skip re-entering
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Connect Klaviyo

Paste a private API key. It's used only for this run and never stored on our servers. Save it in Settings if you would rather not re-enter it every run. Save it in Settings if you would rather not re-enter it every run.

This button only needs
profiles:read data-privacy:write
It cannot touch your lists, campaigns, templates, or billing. Create a key with exactly these scopes (opens Klaviyo with them pre-filled), copy it, paste it here.

Find it in Klaviyo under Settings → API keys → Create Private API Key. Private keys start with pk_.

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What's suppressed, and why

Every suppressed profile in your account, grouped by suppression reason.

Read this before deleting. On Klaviyo's standard plan, suppressed profiles already don't count toward your bill, so deleting them saves zero money. Delete for data hygiene and privacy (GDPR/CCPA), not cost. Deletion is permanent: all history is gone and a returning customer starts as a blank profile. If you're unsure, stop here, suppression has already done the job.
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Back up first (required good sense)

Download a CSV of the profiles you're about to delete: email, reason, and when they were suppressed. Free.

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Purge

Type DELETE to confirm. Klaviyo rate-limits deletions hard (60 per minute account-wide), so we pace at about 55 per minute and cap 2,000 per run, roughly 35 minutes at full cap. Run again for the rest.

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Deletion uses Klaviyo's official Data Privacy API and is permanent. We show you exactly what will be deleted, require a CSV-backup step and a typed confirmation, and never touch profiles that aren't suppressed. Not affiliated with Klaviyo.

What this actually does

Klaviyo has no delete-my-suppressed-profiles button. This finds every suppressed profile, groups them by reason (spam complaints, hard bounces, invalid emails), backs them up to CSV, then submits permanent deletion jobs via Klaviyo's official Data Privacy API. For data hygiene and GDPR, not cost: suppressed profiles already don't bill.

It runs on your own Klaviyo data, in your browser session, against Klaviyo's official API. There is no middle layer holding your records and there is no migration to anywhere. You run it, you get the result, you carry on with your day.

Where the file goes next

It is a CSV, which is the point. Klaviyo will happily show you the numbers on a screen you cannot do anything with. This gives you the file, and the file goes wherever you need it.

The column names stay the same run to run, so if you build a Power BI report or a Sheets formula on top of it, re-running next month will not break what you built.

What it will not do

It will not touch anything you did not ask it to. It does not store your API key, it does not keep a copy of your data, and where an action cannot be reversed you get told that before you press the button, not after.

Questions people actually ask

Does this store my Klaviyo API key?

No. The key is held in memory for the length of the run and is gone when the tab closes. It is never written to our database and never appears in a log. You can revoke it in Klaviyo the moment you are done and nothing here breaks.

What can I do with the file afterwards?

It is a plain CSV, so anything that reads a CSV will read it. Open it in Excel or Google Sheets, pull it into Power BI or Looker Studio, or load it into a warehouse table. The headers are clean and they do not change between runs, so a scheduled refresh will not break on you.

How big a job can it handle?

It streams the results as they arrive rather than holding everything in memory, and it respects Klaviyo's rate limits instead of hammering the API. Large accounts take longer, but they finish.

Can I see what it will do before it does it?

Yes, and you should. Every run starts with a preview of the exact records involved, and a CSV backup you can keep. Nothing is written until you say so.

Is it reversible?

Read the tool's own note above, because it differs by action. Where a change cannot be undone we say so plainly on the button itself rather than in the small print.

Why is this not just a feature in Klaviyo?

That is the whole question, and we do not have a good answer either. It is a gap that has been open for years, it is on the forums, and it never gets shipped. So we shipped it.

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