diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/ne/near-cli/package.json b/pkgs/by-name/ne/near-cli/package.json
deleted file mode 100644
index a6b794a99115..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/by-name/ne/near-cli/package.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,83 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "name": "near-cli",
-  "version": "3.4.2",
-  "description": "General purpose command line tools for interacting with NEAR Protocol",
-  "engines": {
-    "node": ">= 12"
-  },
-  "main": "index.js",
-  "scripts": {
-    "pretest": "rm -rf tmp-project",
-    "test": "npm run test:unit && npm run test:integration",
-    "test:unit": "jest",
-    "test:integration": "bash ./test/index.sh",
-    "lint": "eslint .",
-    "fix": "eslint . --fix"
-  },
-  "repository": {
-    "type": "git",
-    "url": "git+https://github.com/near/near-cli.git"
-  },
-  "author": "Jane Degtiareva",
-  "license": "(MIT AND Apache-2.0)",
-  "bugs": {
-    "url": "https://github.com/near/near-cli/issues"
-  },
-  "homepage": "https://github.com/near/near-cli#readme",
-  "bin": {
-    "near": "bin/near"
-  },
-  "devDependencies": {
-    "danger": "^10.6.6",
-    "lodash": "^4.17.21",
-    "eslint": "^7.0.0",
-    "jest": "^26.1.0",
-    "strip-ansi": "^7.0.0",
-    "strip-ansi-cli": "^3.0.0",
-    "ts-node": "^10.4.0",
-    "typescript": "^4.5.4"
-  },
-  "dependencies": {
-    "analytics-node": "^6.1.0",
-    "ascii-table": "0.0.9",
-    "bn.js": "^5.1.1",
-    "bs58": "^4.0.1",
-    "chalk": "^4.0.0",
-    "flagged-respawn": "^1.0.1",
-    "is-ci": "^2.0.0",
-    "jest-environment-node": "^27.0.6",
-    "ncp": "^2.0.0",
-    "near-api-js": "^0.44.2",
-    "near-seed-phrase": "^0.2.0",
-    "open": "^8.0.7",
-    "rimraf": "^3.0.0",
-    "stoppable": "^1.1.0",
-    "tcp-port-used": "^1.0.1",
-    "update-notifier": "^5.0.0",
-    "uuid": "^8.0.0",
-    "v8flags": "^3.1.3",
-    "yargs": "^16.0.3"
-  },
-  "optionalDependencies": {
-    "@ledgerhq/hw-transport-node-hid": "^6.1.0",
-    "near-ledger-js": "^0.2.0"
-  },
-  "keywords": [
-    "blockchain",
-    "crypto",
-    "dapps",
-    "distributed",
-    "applications",
-    "distributed applications"
-  ],
-  "files": [
-    "bin",
-    "commands",
-    "middleware",
-    "utils",
-    "config.js",
-    "get-config.js",
-    "test_environment.js",
-    "context"
-  ]
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/ne/near-cli/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/ne/near-cli/package.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index dfce986e94ed..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/by-name/ne/near-cli/package.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,53 +0,0 @@
-{
-  lib,
-  mkYarnPackage,
-  fetchFromGitHub,
-  fetchYarnDeps,
-}:
-
-mkYarnPackage rec {
-  pname = "near-cli";
-  version = "3.4.2";
-
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "near";
-    repo = "near-cli";
-    rev = "v${version}";
-    hash = "sha256-C+viNYk+6BA11cdi5GqARU3QTTONTR2B2VEZf/SeeSQ=";
-  };
-
-  packageJSON = ./package.json;
-
-  offlineCache = fetchYarnDeps {
-    yarnLock = "${src}/yarn.lock";
-    hash = "sha256-G/Y8xGGOlXH37Bup7mKhEaNh05GTP5CC9e/Xw4TBNMU=";
-  };
-
-  doDist = false;
-
-  installPhase = ''
-    runHook preInstall
-
-    mkdir -p "$out/lib/node_modules"
-    mv deps/near-cli "$out/lib/node_modules"
-    rm "$out/lib/node_modules/near-cli/node_modules"
-    mv node_modules "$out/lib/node_modules/near-cli"
-
-    mkdir -p "$out/bin"
-    ln -s "$out/lib/node_modules/near-cli/bin/near" "$out/bin"
-
-    runHook postInstall
-  '';
-
-  meta = {
-    changelog = "https://github.com/near/near-cli/blob/${src.rev}/CHANGELOG.md";
-    description = "General purpose command line tools for interacting with NEAR Protocol";
-    homepage = "https://github.com/near/near-cli";
-    license = with lib.licenses; [
-      asl20
-      mit
-    ];
-    mainProgram = "near";
-    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ ekleog ];
-  };
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/node-packages/aliases.nix b/pkgs/development/node-packages/aliases.nix
index 71d845fa6d3f..cff81df813d1 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/node-packages/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/node-packages/aliases.nix
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ mapAliases {
   meshcommander = throw "meshcommander was removed because it was abandoned upstream"; # added 2024-12-02
   inherit (pkgs) mocha; # Added 2025-11-04
   musescore-downloader = pkgs.dl-librescore; # added 2023-08-19
-  inherit (pkgs) near-cli; # added 2023-09-09
+  near-cli = throw "'near-cli' has been removed as upstream has deprecated it and archived the source code repo"; # Added 2025-11-10
   neovim = pkgs.neovim-node-client; # added 2024-11-13
   node-inspector = throw "node-inspector was removed because it was broken"; # added 2023-08-21
   inherit (pkgs) node-gyp; # added 2024-08-13
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index 930bcec70e97..84782f49e787 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -1068,6 +1068,7 @@ mapAliases {
   nasc = throw "'nasc' has been removed as it was unmaintained and depends on deprecated webkitgtk_4_0"; # Added 2025-10-09
   nats-streaming-server = throw "'nats-streaming-server' has been removed as critical bug fixes and security fixes will no longer be performed as of June of 2023"; # added 2025-10-13
   ncdu_2 = throw "'ncdu_2' has been renamed to/replaced by 'ncdu'"; # Converted to throw 2025-10-27
+  near-cli = throw "'near-cli' has been removed as upstream has deprecated it and archived the source code repo"; # Added 2025-11-10
   neardal = throw "neardal has been removed because it has been marked as broken since at least November 2024."; # Added 2025-09-29
   neocities-cli = throw "'neocities-cli' has been renamed to/replaced by 'neocities'"; # Converted to throw 2025-10-27
   netbox_4_1 = throw "netbox 4.1 series has been removed as it was EOL"; # Added 2025-10-14