curl -X POST 'https://api.openai.com/v1/organization/projects/project-id/users' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_ADMIN_KEY" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
  "role": "example-role"
}'

# POST /organization/projects/{project_id}/users (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 project user

## 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/users' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_ADMIN_KEY" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
  "role": "example-role"
}'

## Parameters
| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| project_id | path | string | Yes | The ID of the project. |
| role | body | string | Yes | `owner` or `member` |
| user_id | body | string | No | The ID of the user. |
| email | body | string | No | Email of the user to add. |

## Response example
{"object":"organization.project.user","id":"string"}

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POST /organization/projects/{project_id}/users — OpenAI API

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

OpenAI API

Create project user

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/users' \  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_ADMIN_KEY" \  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \  -d '{  "role": "example-role"}'

Parameters

Name	In	Type	Required	Description
project_id	path	string	Yes	The ID of the project.
user_id	body	string	No	The ID of the user.
email	body	string	No	Email of the user to add.
role	body	string	Yes	`owner` or `member`

Response 200 OK

{
  "object": "organization.project.user",
  "id": "string",
  "name": "string",
  "email": "string",
  "role": "string",
  "added_at": 0
}

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