Create a workspace

curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.pinecone.io/workspaces \
  --header 'Api-Key: <api-key>' \
  --header 'X-Pinecone-Api-Version: <x-pinecone-api-version>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{
  "name": "production",
  "spec": {
    "byoc": {
      "environment": "aws-us-east-1-b921.byoc"
    }
  }
}'

import requests

url = "https://api.pinecone.io/workspaces"

payload = {
  "name": "production",
  "spec": {
    "byoc": {
      "environment": "aws-us-east-1-b921.byoc"
    }
  }
}
headers = {
    "Api-Key": "<api-key>",
    "X-Pinecone-Api-Version": "<x-pinecone-api-version>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

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

print(response.text)

const options = {method: "POST", headers: {"Api-Key": "<api-key>", "X-Pinecone-Api-Version": "<x-pinecone-api-version>", "Content-Type": "application/json"}, body: JSON.stringify({
  "name": "production",
  "spec": {
    "byoc": {
      "environment": "aws-us-east-1-b921.byoc"
    }
  }
})};

fetch("https://api.pinecone.io/workspaces", options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.pinecone.io/workspaces",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => "{\"name\":\"production\",\"spec\":{\"byoc\":{\"environment\":\"aws-us-east-1-b921.byoc\"}}}",
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "Api-Key: <api-key>",
    "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;
}

package main

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

func main() {

	url := "https://api.pinecone.io/workspaces"

	payload := strings.NewReader("{\"name\":\"production\",\"spec\":{\"byoc\":{\"environment\":\"aws-us-east-1-b921.byoc\"}}}")

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

	req.Header.Add("Api-Key", "<api-key>")
	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))

}

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://api.pinecone.io/workspaces")
  .header("Api-Key", "<api-key>")
  .header("X-Pinecone-Api-Version", "<x-pinecone-api-version>")
  .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
  .body("{\"name\":\"production\",\"spec\":{\"byoc\":{\"environment\":\"aws-us-east-1-b921.byoc\"}}}")
  .asString();

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.pinecone.io/workspaces")

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

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Api-Key"] = '<api-key>'
request["X-Pinecone-Api-Version"] = '<x-pinecone-api-version>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\"name\":\"production\",\"spec\":{\"byoc\":{\"environment\":\"aws-us-east-1-b921.byoc\"}}}"

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

{
  "created_at": "2026-06-01T00:00:00.000Z",
  "host": "production-c01b5b5.wksp.aws-us-east-1-b921.byoc.pinecone.io",
  "name": "production",
  "spec": {
    "byoc": {
      "environment": "aws-us-east-1-b921.byoc"
    }
  },
  "status": {
    "ready": false,
    "state": "Initializing"
  },
  "updated_at": "2026-06-01T00:00:00.000Z"
}

{
  "error": {
    "code": "INVALID_ARGUMENT",
    "message": "Workspace name must be 1-45 characters, contain only lowercase alphanumeric characters or '-', and start and end with an alphanumeric character."
  },
  "status": 400
}

{
  "error": {
    "code": "UNAUTHENTICATED",
    "message": "Invalid API key."
  },
  "status": 401
}

{
  "error": {
    "code": "FORBIDDEN",
    "message": "This project has reached its workspace limit. Delete an existing workspace or contact support to raise the limit."
  },
  "status": 403
}

{
  "error": {
    "code": "ALREADY_EXISTS",
    "message": "A workspace named 'production' already exists in this project. Choose a different name."
  },
  "status": 409
}

{
  "error": {
    "code": "UNPROCESSABLE_ENTITY",
    "message": "Failed to deserialize the JSON body into the target type: missing field `spec` at line 1 column 20"
  },
  "status": 422
}

{
  "error": {
    "code": "UNKNOWN",
    "message": "Internal server error"
  },
  "status": 500
}