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

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

> Modify 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/users/user-id' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_ADMIN_KEY" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{}'

## Parameters
| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| user_id | path | string | Yes | The ID of the user. |
| role | body | string | No | `owner` or `reader` |
| role_id | body | string | No | Role ID to assign to the user. |
| technical_level | body | string | No | Technical level metadata. |
| developer_persona | body | string | No | Developer persona metadata. |

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

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POST /organization/users/{user_id} — OpenAI API

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OpenAI API

Modify 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/users/user-id' \  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_ADMIN_KEY" \  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \  -d '{}'

Parameters

Name	In	Type	Required	Description
user_id	path	string	Yes	The ID of the user.
role	body	string	No	`owner` or `reader`
role_id	body	string	No	Role ID to assign to the user.
technical_level	body	string	No	Technical level metadata.
developer_persona	body	string	No	Developer persona metadata.

Response 200 OK

{
  "object": "organization.user",
  "id": "string",
  "name": "string",
  "email": "string",
  "role": "string",
  "added_at": 0,
  "is_default": true,
  "created": 0,
  "user": {
    "object": "user",
    "id": "string",
    "email": "string",
    "name": "string",
    "picture": "string",
    "enabled": true,
    "banned": true,
    "banned_at": 0
  },
  "is_service_account": true,
  "is_scale_tier_authorized_purchaser": true,
  "is_scim_managed": true,
  "api_key_last_used_at": 0,
  "technical_level": "string",
  "developer_persona": "string",
  "projects": {
    "object": "list",
    "data": [
      {
        "id": "string",
        "name": "string",
        "role": "string"
      }
    ]
  }
}

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