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

# POST /organization/projects/{project_id}/service_accounts/{service_account_id}/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 an API key for a service account

## 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/service_accounts/service-account-id/api_keys' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_ADMIN_KEY" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{}'

## Parameters
| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| project_id | path | string | Yes | The ID of the project. |
| service_account_id | path | string | Yes | The ID of the service account. |
| name | body | string | No | API key name. |
| scopes | body | string[] | No | API key scopes. |
| expires_in_seconds | body | integer | No | Number of seconds until the API key expires. |

## Response example
{"object":"organization.project.service_account.api_key","value":"string"}

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POST

POST /organization/projects/{project_id}/service_accounts/{service_account_id}/api_keys — OpenAI API

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

OpenAI API

Create an API key for a service account

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/service_accounts/service-account-id/api_keys' \  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_ADMIN_KEY" \  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \  -d '{}'

Parameters

Name	In	Type	Required	Description
project_id	path	string	Yes	The ID of the project.
service_account_id	path	string	Yes	The ID of the service account.
name	body	string	No	API key name.
scopes	body	string[]	No	API key scopes.
expires_in_seconds	body	integer	No	Number of seconds until the API key expires.

Response 200 OK

{
  "object": "organization.project.service_account.api_key",
  "value": "string",
  "name": "string",
  "created_at": 0,
  "expires_at": 0,
  "id": "string"
}

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