curl -X POST 'https://api.github.com/orgs/example-org/actions/hosted-runners' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $GITHUB_TOKEN" \
  -H 'Accept: application/vnd.github+json' \
  -H 'X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2026-03-10' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
  "name": "example-name",
  "image": {
    "id": "example-id",
    "source": "github",
    "version": "example-version"
  },
  "size": "example-size",
  "runner_group_id": 0
}'

# POST /orgs/{org}/actions/hosted-runners (GitHub API)
Base URL: https://api.github.com
Auth: Authorization; GitHub token; required.
Request formats: application/json.
Last verified: 2026-10-20

> Create a GitHub-hosted runner for an organization

## Critical Gotchas
* GitHub recommends an `Accept: application/vnd.github+json` header and an explicit `X-GitHub-Api-Version` header.
* Fine-grained tokens only authorize repositories and permissions selected when the token is created.

## cURL
curl -X POST 'https://api.github.com/orgs/example-org/actions/hosted-runners' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $GITHUB_TOKEN" \
  -H 'Accept: application/vnd.github+json' \
  -H 'X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2026-03-10' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
  "name": "example-name",
  "image": {
    "id": "example-id",
    "source": "github",
    "version": "example-version"
  },
  "size": "example-size",
  "runner_group_id": 0
}'

## Parameters
| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| org | path | string | Yes | The organization name. The name is not case sensitive. |
| name | body | string | Yes | Name of the runner. Must be between 1 and 64 characters and may only contain... |
| image | body | object | Yes | The image of runner. To list all available images, use `GET /actions/hosted-r... |
| size | body | string | Yes | The machine size of the runner. To list available sizes, use `GET actions/hos... |
| runner_group_id | body | integer | Yes | The existing runner group to add this runner to. |
| maximum_runners | body | integer | No | The maximum amount of runners to scale up to. Runners will not auto-scale abo... |
| enable_static_ip | body | boolean | No | Whether this runner should be created with a static public IP. Note limit on... |
| image_gen | body | boolean | No | Whether this runner should be used to generate custom images. |

## Response example
{"id":5,"name":"my-github-hosted-runner"}

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POST

POST /orgs/{org}/actions/hosted-runners — GitHub API

GitHub token (required); https://api.github.com

GitHub API

Create a GitHub-hosted runner for an organization

Base URL: https://api.github.com
Auth: Authorization: Bearer <GITHUB_API_KEY>
Last verified: 2026-10-20 · upstream hash matched

Actions Try in browser→

Agents: curl -H "Accept: text/markdown" this URL
→ 405 tokens · Vary: Accept

Critical gotchas

GitHub recommends an Accept: application/vnd.github+json header and an explicit X-GitHub-Api-Version header.

Fine-grained tokens only authorize repositories and permissions selected when the token is created.

cURL

curl -X POST 'https://api.github.com/orgs/example-org/actions/hosted-runners' \  -H "Authorization: Bearer $GITHUB_TOKEN" \  -H 'Accept: application/vnd.github+json' \  -H 'X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2026-03-10' \  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \  -d '{  "name": "example-name",  "image": {    "id": "example-id",    "source": "github",    "version": "example-version"  },  "size": "example-size",  "runner_group_id": 0}'

Parameters

Name	In	Type	Required	Description
org	path	string	Yes	The organization name. The name is not case sensitive.
name	body	string	Yes	Name of the runner. Must be between 1 and 64 characters and may only contain upper and lowercase letters a-z, numbers 0-9, '.', '-', and '_'.
image	body	object	Yes	The image of runner. To list all available images, use `GET /actions/hosted-runners/images/github-owned` or `GET /actions/hosted-runners/images/partner`.
size	body	string	Yes	The machine size of the runner. To list available sizes, use `GET actions/hosted-runners/machine-sizes`
runner_group_id	body	integer	Yes	The existing runner group to add this runner to.
maximum_runners	body	integer	No	The maximum amount of runners to scale up to. Runners will not auto-scale above this number. Use this setting to limit your cost.
enable_static_ip	body	boolean	No	Whether this runner should be created with a static public IP. Note limit on account. To list limits on account, use `GET actions/hosted-runners/limits`
image_gen	body	boolean	No	Whether this runner should be used to generate custom images.

Response 200 OK

{
  "id": 5,
  "name": "my-github-hosted-runner",
  "runner_group_id": 2,
  "image_details": {
    "id": "ubuntu-20.04",
    "size_gb": 86,
    "display_name": 20.04,
    "source": "github",
    "version": "latest"
  },
  "machine_size_details": {
    "id": "8-core",
    "cpu_cores": 8,
    "memory_gb": 32,
    "storage_gb": 300
  },
  "status": "Ready",
  "platform": "linux-x64",
  "maximum_runners": 5,
  "public_ip_enabled": true,
  "public_ips": [
    {
      "enabled": true,
      "prefix": "20.80.208.150",
      "length": 28
    }
  ],
  "last_active_on": "2022-10-09T23:39:01Z",
  "image_gen": true
}

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