curl -X POST 'https://api.openai.com/v1/organization/admin_api_keys' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_ADMIN_KEY" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
  "name": "New Admin Key"
}'

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

> Create admin API key

## 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/admin_api_keys' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_ADMIN_KEY" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
  "name": "New Admin Key"
}'

## Parameters
| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| name | body | string | Yes | Request body field name. |
| expires_in_seconds | body | integer | No | The number of seconds until the API key expires. Omit this field for a key th... |

## Response example
{"object":"organization.admin_api_key","id":"key_abc"}

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POST

POST /organization/admin_api_keys — OpenAI API

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

OpenAI API

Create admin API key

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/admin_api_keys' \  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_ADMIN_KEY" \  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \  -d '{  "name": "New Admin Key"}'

Parameters

Name	In	Type	Required	Description
name	body	string	Yes	Request body field name.
expires_in_seconds	body	integer	No	The number of seconds until the API key expires. Omit this field for a key that does not expire.

Response 200 OK

{
  "object": "organization.admin_api_key",
  "id": "key_abc",
  "name": "Administration Key",
  "redacted_value": "sk-admin...def",
  "created_at": 1711471533,
  "expires_at": 1714063533,
  "last_used_at": 1711471534,
  "owner": {
    "type": "user",
    "object": "organization.user",
    "id": "sa_456",
    "name": "My Service Account",
    "created_at": 1711471533,
    "role": "owner"
  },
  "value": "sk-admin-1234abcd"
}

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