---
type: docs
title: "stop CLI command reference"
linkTitle: "stop"
description: "Detailed information on the stop CLI command"
---

### Description

Stop Dapr instances and their associated apps.

### Supported platforms

- [Self-Hosted]({{< ref self-hosted >}})

### Usage

```bash
dapr stop [flags]
```

### Flags

| Name                 | Environment Variable | Default | Description                      |
| -------------------- | -------------------- | ------- | -------------------------------- |
| `--app-id`, `-a`     | `APP_ID`             |         | The application id to be stopped |
| `--help`, `-h`       |                      |         | Print this help message          |
| `--run-file`, `-f`   |                      |         | Stop running multiple applications at once using a Multi-App Run template file. Currently in [alpha]({{< ref "support-preview-features.md" >}}) and only availale in Linux/MacOS |

### Examples

```bash
# Stop Dapr application
dapr stop --app-id <ID>
```