diff --git a/codex/rest/api.nim b/codex/rest/api.nim
index a64d26cf..1c5bdc7a 100644
--- a/codex/rest/api.nim
+++ b/codex/rest/api.nim
@@ -238,6 +238,15 @@ proc initDataApi(node: CodexNodeRef, repoStore: RepoStore, router: var RestRoute
     let json = await formatManifestBlocks(node)
     return RestApiResponse.response($json, contentType = "application/json")
 
+  router.api(MethodOptions, "/api/codex/v1/data/{cid}") do(
+    cid: Cid, resp: HttpResponseRef
+  ) -> RestApiResponse:
+    if corsOrigin =? allowedOrigin:
+      resp.setCorsHeaders("GET,DELETE", corsOrigin)
+
+    resp.status = Http204
+    await resp.sendBody("")
+
   router.api(MethodGet, "/api/codex/v1/data/{cid}") do(
     cid: Cid, resp: HttpResponseRef
   ) -> RestApiResponse:
@@ -254,6 +263,27 @@ proc initDataApi(node: CodexNodeRef, repoStore: RepoStore, router: var RestRoute
 
     await node.retrieveCid(cid.get(), local = true, resp = resp)
 
+  router.api(MethodDelete, "/api/codex/v1/data/{cid}") do(
+    cid: Cid, resp: HttpResponseRef
+  ) -> RestApiResponse:
+    ## Deletes either a single block or an entire dataset
+    ## from the local node. Does nothing and returns 200
+    ## if the dataset is not locally available.
+    ##
+    var headers = buildCorsHeaders("DELETE", allowedOrigin)
+
+    if corsOrigin =? allowedOrigin:
+      resp.setCorsHeaders("DELETE", corsOrigin)
+      resp.setHeader("Access-Control-Headers", "X-Requested-With")
+
+    if cid.isErr:
+      return RestApiResponse.error(Http400, $cid.error(), headers = headers)
+
+    if err =? (await node.delete(cid.get())).errorOption:
+      return RestApiResponse.error(Http500, err.msg, headers = headers)
+
+    return RestApiResponse.response("", headers = headers)
+
   router.api(MethodPost, "/api/codex/v1/data/{cid}/network") do(
     cid: Cid, resp: HttpResponseRef
   ) -> RestApiResponse:
diff --git a/tests/integration/codexclient.nim b/tests/integration/codexclient.nim
index 7826b151..80ad710e 100644
--- a/tests/integration/codexclient.nim
+++ b/tests/integration/codexclient.nim
@@ -83,6 +83,16 @@ proc downloadBytes*(
 
   success bytes
 
+proc delete*(client: CodexClient, cid: Cid): ?!void =
+  let
+    url = client.baseurl & "/data/" & $cid
+    response = client.http.delete(url)
+
+  if response.status != "200 OK":
+    return failure(response.status)
+
+  success()
+
 proc list*(client: CodexClient): ?!RestContentList =
   let url = client.baseurl & "/data"
   let response = client.http.get(url)
@@ -281,3 +291,6 @@ proc downloadRaw*(client: CodexClient, cid: string, local = false): Response =
     client.baseurl & "/data/" & cid & (if local: "" else: "/network/stream"),
     httpMethod = HttpGet,
   )
+
+proc deleteRaw*(client: CodexClient, cid: string): Response =
+  return client.http.request(client.baseurl & "/data/" & cid, httpMethod = HttpDelete)
diff --git a/tests/integration/testrestapi.nim b/tests/integration/testrestapi.nim
index f1f2299f..446d3db9 100644
--- a/tests/integration/testrestapi.nim
+++ b/tests/integration/testrestapi.nim
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
 import std/httpclient
 import std/sequtils
-from pkg/libp2p import `==`
+from pkg/libp2p import `==`, `$`, Cid
 import pkg/codex/units
 import ./twonodes
 import ../examples
+import ../codex/examples
 import json
 
 twonodessuite "REST API":
@@ -261,3 +262,19 @@ twonodessuite "REST API":
     check localResponse.headers.hasKey("Content-Disposition") == true
     check localResponse.headers["Content-Disposition"] ==
       "attachment; filename=\"example.txt\""
+
+  test "should delete a dataset when requested", twoNodesConfig:
+    let cid = client1.upload("some file contents").get
+
+    var response = client1.downloadRaw($cid, local = true)
+    check response.body == "some file contents"
+
+    client1.delete(cid).get
+
+    response = client1.downloadRaw($cid, local = true)
+    check response.status == "404 Not Found"
+
+  test "should return 200 when attempting delete of non-existing dataset",
+    twoNodesConfig:
+    let response = client1.deleteRaw($(Cid.example()))
+    check response.status == "200 OK"