curl -X POST 'https://api.openai.com/v1/organization/projects/project-id/certificates/activate' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_ADMIN_KEY" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
  "certificate_ids": [
    "cert_abc"
  ]
}'

# POST /organization/projects/{project_id}/certificates/activate (OpenAI API)
Base URL: https://api.openai.com/v1
Auth: Authorization; OpenAI admin key; required.
Request formats: application/json.
Last verified: 2026-10-20

> Activate certificates for project

## Critical Gotchas
* The Responses API is the primary interface for new text and tool workflows; Chat Completions remains a separate compatibility API.
* Audio transcription uploads use multipart form data rather than a JSON request body.

## cURL
curl -X POST 'https://api.openai.com/v1/organization/projects/project-id/certificates/activate' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_ADMIN_KEY" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
  "certificate_ids": [
    "cert_abc"
  ]
}'

## Parameters
| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| project_id | path | string | Yes | The ID of the project. |
| certificate_ids | body | string[] | Yes | Request body field certificate_ids. |

## Response example
{"object":"organization.project.certificate.activation","data":[{}]}

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POST

POST /organization/projects/{project_id}/certificates/activate — OpenAI API

OpenAI admin key (required); https://api.openai.com/v1

OpenAI API

Activate certificates for project

Base URL: https://api.openai.com/v1
Auth: Authorization: Bearer <OPENAI_API_KEY>
Last verified: 2026-10-20 · upstream hash matched

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Critical gotchas

The Responses API is the primary interface for new text and tool workflows; Chat Completions remains a separate compatibility API.

Audio transcription uploads use multipart form data rather than a JSON request body.

cURL

curl -X POST 'https://api.openai.com/v1/organization/projects/project-id/certificates/activate' \  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_ADMIN_KEY" \  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \  -d '{  "certificate_ids": [    "cert_abc"  ]}'

Parameters

Name	In	Type	Required	Description
project_id	path	string	Yes	The ID of the project.
certificate_ids	body	string[]	Yes	Request body field certificate_ids.

Response 200 OK

{
  "object": "organization.project.certificate.activation",
  "data": [
    {
      "object": "organization.project.certificate",
      "id": "string",
      "name": "string",
      "created_at": 0,
      "certificate_details": {
        "valid_at": 0,
        "expires_at": 0
      },
      "active": true
    }
  ]
}

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