# Create project

**POST** `/projects`

Creates a Neon project within an organization.
If using a personal API key, include the `org_id` parameter to specify which organization to create the project in.
If using an org API key, `org_id` is automatically inferred from the key.
Plan limits define how many projects you can create.
For more information, see [Manage projects](https://neon.com/docs/manage/projects/).

You can specify a region and Postgres version in the request body.
Neon supports Postgres 14 through 18, with 19 rolling out to enabled regions.
For supported regions and `region_id` values, see [Regions](https://neon.com/docs/introduction/regions/).

Base URL: `https://console.neon.tech/api/v2`

Tags: `Project`

## Authorization

Any ONE of the following options authorizes this operation; every scheme listed within an option is required together.

| Option | Scheme | Type | Sent as | Scopes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Option 1 | `BearerAuth` | `http` | `Authorization: Bearer <token>` | — |
| Option 2 | `CookieAuth` | `apiKey` | cookie `zenith` | — |
| Option 3 | `TokenCookieAuth` | `apiKey` | cookie `keycloak_token` | — |

## Request body

Required. Media type: `application/json`

### Example request body

```json
{
  "project": {
    "name": "myproject",
    "pg_version": 15,
    "region_id": "aws-us-east-2"
  }
}
```

## Responses

| Status | Description | Media type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `201` | Created a project. The project includes a connection URI with a database, password, and role. At least one non-protected role is created with a password. Wait until the operations are finished before attempting to connect to a project database. | `application/json` |
| `default` | General Error. The request may or may not be safe to retry, depending on the HTTP method, response status code, and whether a response was received. - If no response is returned from the API, a network error or timeout likely occurred. - In some cases, the request may have reached the server and been successfully processed, but the response failed to reach the client. As a result, retrying non-idempotent requests can lead to unintended results. The following HTTP methods are considered non-idempotent: `POST`, `PATCH`, `DELETE`, and `PUT`. Retrying these methods is generally **not safe**. The following methods are considered idempotent: `GET`, `HEAD`, and `OPTIONS`. Retrying these methods is **safe** in the event of a network error or timeout. Any request that returns a `503 Service Unavailable` response is always safe to retry. Any request that returns a `423 Locked` response is safe to retry. `423 Locked` indicates that the resource is temporarily locked, for example, due to another operation in progress. | `application/json` |

### Example response: 201 — Created a project.
The project includes a connection URI with a database, password, and role.
At least one non-protected role is created with a password.
Wait until the operations are finished before attempting to connect to a project database.

```json
{
  "branch": {
    "active_time_seconds": 922200,
    "compute_time_seconds": 823880990,
    "cpu_used_sec": 461100,
    "created_at": "2022-11-30T19:09:48Z",
    "creation_source": "console",
    "current_state": "ready",
    "data_transfer_bytes": 72911987,
    "default": true,
    "id": "br-wispy-meadow-118737",
    "init_source": "parent-data",
    "name": "dev2",
    "parent_id": "br-aged-salad-637688",
    "parent_lsn": "0/1DE2850",
    "project_id": "spring-example-302709",
    "protected": false,
    "state_changed_at": "2022-11-30T20:09:48Z",
    "updated_at": "2022-12-01T19:53:05Z",
    "written_data_bytes": 542998300
  },
  "connection_uris": [
    {
      "connection_parameters": {
        "database": "string",
        "host": "string",
        "password": "",
        "pooler_host": "string",
        "role": "string"
      },
      "connection_uri": "string"
    }
  ],
  "databases": [
    {
      "branch_id": "br-wispy-meadow-118737",
      "created_at": "2022-11-30T18:25:15Z",
      "id": 834686,
      "name": "neondb",
      "owner_name": "casey",
      "updated_at": "2022-11-30T18:25:15Z"
    }
  ],
  "endpoints": [
    {
      "autoscaling_limit_max_cu": 1,
      "autoscaling_limit_min_cu": 1,
      "branch_id": "br-wispy-meadow-118737",
      "created_at": "2022-12-03T15:37:07Z",
      "creation_source": "console",
      "current_state": "init",
      "disabled": false,
      "host": "ep-silent-smoke-806639.us-east-2.aws.neon.tech",
      "id": "ep-silent-smoke-806639",
      "name": "My cool compute",
      "passwordless_access": true,
      "pending_state": "active",
      "pooler_enabled": false,
      "pooler_mode": "transaction",
      "project_id": "spring-example-302709",
      "provisioner": "k8s-neonvm",
      "proxy_host": "us-east-2.aws.neon.tech",
      "region_id": "aws-us-east-2",
      "settings": {
        "pg_settings": {}
      },
      "suspend_timeout_seconds": 0,
      "type": "read_write",
      "updated_at": "2022-12-03T15:37:07Z"
    }
  ],
  "operations": [
    {
      "action": "start_compute",
      "branch_id": "br-wispy-meadow-118737",
      "created_at": "2022-11-15T20:02:00Z",
      "endpoint_id": "ep-silent-smoke-806639",
      "failures_count": 0,
      "id": "d8ac46eb-a757-42b1-9907-f78322ee394e",
      "project_id": "spring-example-302709",
      "status": "finished",
      "total_duration_ms": 200,
      "updated_at": "2022-11-15T20:02:02Z"
    }
  ],
  "project": {
    "active_time_seconds": 621440,
    "branch_logical_size_limit": 10,
    "branch_logical_size_limit_bytes": 10485760,
    "compute_time_seconds": 2485760,
    "consumption_period_end": "2022-12-01T00:00:00Z",
    "consumption_period_start": "2022-11-01T00:00:00Z",
    "cpu_used_sec": 155350,
    "created_at": "2022-12-13T01:30:55Z",
    "creation_source": "console",
    "data_storage_bytes_hour": 2831928,
    "data_transfer_bytes": 1000,
    "history_retention_seconds": 604800,
    "id": "spring-example-302709",
    "name": "spring-example-302709",
    "org_id": "org-morning-bread-81040908",
    "owner": {
      "branches_limit": 10,
      "email": "some@email.com",
      "name": "John Smith",
      "subscription_type": "scale"
    },
    "owner_id": "629982cc-de05-43db-ae16-28f2399c4910",
    "pg_version": 15,
    "platform_id": "aws",
    "provisioner": "k8s-pod",
    "proxy_host": "us-east-2.aws.neon.tech",
    "region_id": "aws-us-east-2",
    "store_passwords": true,
    "updated_at": "2022-12-13T01:30:55Z",
    "written_data_bytes": 193990002
  },
  "roles": [
    {
      "branch_id": "br-wispy-meadow-118737",
      "created_at": "2022-11-23T17:42:25Z",
      "name": "casey",
      "protected": false,
      "updated_at": "2022-11-23T17:42:25Z"
    }
  ]
}
```

### Example response: default — General Error.

The request may or may not be safe to retry, depending on the HTTP method, response status code,
and whether a response was received.

- If no response is returned from the API, a network error or timeout likely occurred.
- In some cases, the request may have reached the server and been successfully processed, but the response failed to reach the client. As a result, retrying non-idempotent requests can lead to unintended results.

The following HTTP methods are considered non-idempotent: `POST`, `PATCH`, `DELETE`, and `PUT`. Retrying these methods is generally **not safe**.
The following methods are considered idempotent: `GET`, `HEAD`, and `OPTIONS`. Retrying these methods is **safe** in the event of a network error or timeout.

Any request that returns a `503 Service Unavailable` response is always safe to retry.

Any request that returns a `423 Locked` response is safe to retry. `423 Locked` indicates that the resource is temporarily locked, for example, due to another operation in progress.

```json
{
  "code": "",
  "message": "string",
  "request_id": "string"
}
```

## Related pages

- [Accept a project transfer request](./acceptprojecttransferrequest.md)
- [Add an OAuth provider](./addneonauthoauthprovider.md)
- [Add an OAuth provider](./addbranchneonauthoauthprovider.md)
- [Add domain to redirect_uri whitelist](./addbranchneonauthtrusteddomain.md)
- [Add JWKS URL](./addprojectjwks.md)
- [Add trusted redirect URI domain](./addneonauthdomaintoredirecturiwhitelist.md)
- [AI Gateway](./tags/ai-gateway.md)
- [API Key](./tags/api-key.md)
- [Assign or update VPC endpoint](./assignorganizationvpcendpoint.md)
- [Auth](./tags/auth.md)

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