# Update a service account

**PATCH** `/admin/service-accounts/{service_account_id}`

:::code-group
```bash title="cURL"
curl --request PATCH \
  --url https://api.pinecone.io/admin/service-accounts/{service_account_id} \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'X-Pinecone-Api-Version: <x-pinecone-api-version>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{
  "name": "ci-prod-renamed"
}'
```

```python title="Python"
import requests

url = "https://api.pinecone.io/admin/service-accounts/{service_account_id}"

payload = {
  "name": "ci-prod-renamed"
}
headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
    "X-Pinecone-Api-Version": "<x-pinecone-api-version>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.patch(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)
```

```javascript title="JavaScript"
const options = {method: "PATCH", headers: {"Authorization": "Bearer <token>", "X-Pinecone-Api-Version": "<x-pinecone-api-version>", "Content-Type": "application/json"}, body: JSON.stringify({
  "name": "ci-prod-renamed"
})};

fetch("https://api.pinecone.io/admin/service-accounts/{service_account_id}", options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));
```

```php title="PHP"
<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.pinecone.io/admin/service-accounts/{service_account_id}",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "PATCH",
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => "{\"name\":\"ci-prod-renamed\"}",
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "Authorization: Bearer <token>",
    "X-Pinecone-Api-Version: <x-pinecone-api-version>",
    "Content-Type: application/json"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}
```

```go title="Go"
package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://api.pinecone.io/admin/service-accounts/{service_account_id}"

	payload := strings.NewReader("{\"name\":\"ci-prod-renamed\"}")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("PATCH", url, payload)

	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
	req.Header.Add("X-Pinecone-Api-Version", "<x-pinecone-api-version>")
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}
```

```java title="Java"
HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.patch("https://api.pinecone.io/admin/service-accounts/{service_account_id}")
  .header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
  .header("X-Pinecone-Api-Version", "<x-pinecone-api-version>")
  .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
  .body("{\"name\":\"ci-prod-renamed\"}")
  .asString();
```

```ruby title="Ruby"
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.pinecone.io/admin/service-accounts/{service_account_id}")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Patch.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
request["X-Pinecone-Api-Version"] = '<x-pinecone-api-version>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\"name\":\"ci-prod-renamed\"}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body
```
:::

:::code-group
```json title="200"
{
  "client_id": "l3Ow0CmFyc4jOONcwiKUCRqQKN0tiCAn",
  "created_at": "2026-04-10T15:23:00.000Z",
  "id": "f8a3b2c1-4d5e-6f7a-8b9c-0d1e2f3a4b5c",
  "name": "My Service Account",
  "updated_at": "2026-04-12T09:11:00.000Z"
}
```

```json title="400"
{
  "error": {
    "code": "INVALID_ARGUMENT",
    "message": "Bad request. The request body included invalid request parameters."
  },
  "status": 400
}
```

```json title="401"
{
  "error": {
    "code": "UNAUTHENTICATED",
    "message": "Invalid API key."
  },
  "status": 401
}
```

```json title="403"
{
  "error": {
    "code": "QUOTA_EXCEEDED",
    "message": "The index exceeds the project quota of 5 pods by 2 pods. Upgrade your account or change the project settings to increase the quota."
  },
  "status": 429
}
```

```json title="404"
{
  "error": {
    "code": "QUOTA_EXCEEDED",
    "message": "The index exceeds the project quota of 5 pods by 2 pods. Upgrade your account or change the project settings to increase the quota."
  },
  "status": 429
}
```

```json title="500"
{
  "error": {
    "code": "UNKNOWN",
    "message": "Internal server error"
  },
  "status": 500
}
```

```json title="4XX"
{
  "error": {
    "code": "QUOTA_EXCEEDED",
    "message": "The index exceeds the project quota of 5 pods by 2 pods. Upgrade your account or change the project settings to increase the quota."
  },
  "status": 429
}
```
:::

#### Authorizations

| Prop | Type | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `Authorization` | `string` | - |  |

An [access token](/guides/admin-organizations-manage-service-accounts#retrieve-an-access-token) must be provided in the `Authorization` header using the `Bearer` scheme.

#### Headers

| Prop | Type | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `X-Pinecone-Api-Version` | `string` | `2026-07` | Required date-based version header |

#### Path Parameters

| Prop | Type | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `service_account_id` | `string` | - | The unique identifier of the service account. |

#### Body

Updated metadata for the service account.

| Prop | Type | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `name?` | `string` | - | A new name for the service account. If omitted, the name is unchanged. Required string length: 1 - 80. Example: ci-prod-renamed |

#### Response

`200` — Service account updated successfully.

A service account. The OAuth `client_secret` is not included.

| Prop | Type | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `id` | `string` | - | The unique identifier for the service account. Use this as the path parameter on /admin/service-accounts/service_account_id endpoints and as the principal_id when querying or creating role bindings. |

| Prop | Type | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `name` | `string` | - | A short human-readable label, set by the caller at creation time. Required string length: 1 - 80 |

| Prop | Type | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `client_id` | `string` | - | The OAuth client ID used by the service account to obtain access tokens. Used only for OAuth token exchange. |

| Prop | Type | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `created_at` | `string` | - | The date and time the service account was created. |

| Prop | Type | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `updated_at` | `string` | - | The date and time of the service account's most recent metadata update. |

## Related pages

- [List service accounts](./admin-2-service-accounts-list-service-accounts.md)
- [Create a service account](./admin-2-service-accounts-create-a-service-account.md)
- [Get service account details](./admin-2-service-accounts-get-service-account-details.md)
- [Delete a service account](./admin-2-service-accounts-delete-a-service-account.md)
- [Rotate a service account's OAuth client secret](./admin-2-service-accounts-rotate-a-service-accounts-oauth-client-secret.md)

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