curl -X POST 'https://api.openai.com/v1/organization/roles' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_ADMIN_KEY" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
  "role_name": "example-role-name",
  "permissions": [
    "example-permissions"
  ]
}'

# POST /organization/roles (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 organization role

## 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/roles' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_ADMIN_KEY" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
  "role_name": "example-role-name",
  "permissions": [
    "example-permissions"
  ]
}'

## Parameters
| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| role_name | body | string | Yes | Unique name for the role. |
| permissions | body | string[] | Yes | Permissions to grant to the role. |
| description | body | string | No | Optional description of the role. |

## Response example
{"object":"role","id":"string"}

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POST

POST /organization/roles — OpenAI API

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

OpenAI API

Create organization role

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/roles' \  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_ADMIN_KEY" \  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \  -d '{  "role_name": "example-role-name",  "permissions": [    "example-permissions"  ]}'

Parameters

Name	In	Type	Required	Description
role_name	body	string	Yes	Unique name for the role.
permissions	body	string[]	Yes	Permissions to grant to the role.
description	body	string	No	Optional description of the role.

Response 200 OK

{
  "object": "role",
  "id": "string",
  "name": "string",
  "description": "string",
  "permissions": [
    "string"
  ],
  "resource_type": "string",
  "predefined_role": true
}

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