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# Break Job

## API Description

Forcefully interrupt a running job.

## Request Headers

**Content-Type** `string` *required*

Enum: `application/json`

**Authorization** `string` *required*

Bearer authentication format, for example: Bearer \{\{API Key}}.

## Request Body

**jobId** `string` *required*

The job ID to be interrupted. String, length 0–255.

## cURL Example

```bash theme={"system"}
curl --location --request POST 'https://api.novita.ai/gpu-instance/openapi/v1/job/break' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer {{API_KEY}}' \
--data-raw '{
  "jobId": "10wi9visv0rqt57w"
}'
```

## Response

**jobId** `string` *required*

The job ID.


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