Create a service account

curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.pinecone.io/admin/service-accounts \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'X-Pinecone-Api-Version: <x-pinecone-api-version>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{
  "name": "ci-prod",
  "role_bindings": [
    {
      "resource_id": "a2f7dddb-1597-4eff-9f71-535fde243f58",
      "resource_type": "project",
      "role": "DataPlaneEditor"
    }
  ]
}'

import requests

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

payload = {
  "name": "ci-prod",
  "role_bindings": [
    {
      "resource_id": "a2f7dddb-1597-4eff-9f71-535fde243f58",
      "resource_type": "project",
      "role": "DataPlaneEditor"
    }
  ]
}
headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
    "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: {"Authorization": "Bearer <token>", "X-Pinecone-Api-Version": "<x-pinecone-api-version>", "Content-Type": "application/json"}, body: JSON.stringify({
  "name": "ci-prod",
  "role_bindings": [
    {
      "resource_id": "a2f7dddb-1597-4eff-9f71-535fde243f58",
      "resource_type": "project",
      "role": "DataPlaneEditor"
    }
  ]
})};

fetch("https://api.pinecone.io/admin/service-accounts", 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/admin/service-accounts",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => "{\"name\":\"ci-prod\",\"role_bindings\":[{\"resource_id\":\"a2f7dddb-1597-4eff-9f71-535fde243f58\",\"resource_type\":\"project\",\"role\":\"DataPlaneEditor\"}]}",
  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;
}

package main

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

func main() {

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

	payload := strings.NewReader("{\"name\":\"ci-prod\",\"role_bindings\":[{\"resource_id\":\"a2f7dddb-1597-4eff-9f71-535fde243f58\",\"resource_type\":\"project\",\"role\":\"DataPlaneEditor\"}]}")

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

}

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://api.pinecone.io/admin/service-accounts")
  .header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
  .header("X-Pinecone-Api-Version", "<x-pinecone-api-version>")
  .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
  .body("{\"name\":\"ci-prod\",\"role_bindings\":[{\"resource_id\":\"a2f7dddb-1597-4eff-9f71-535fde243f58\",\"resource_type\":\"project\",\"role\":\"DataPlaneEditor\"}]}")
  .asString();

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

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

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

request = Net::HTTP::Post.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\",\"role_bindings\":[{\"resource_id\":\"a2f7dddb-1597-4eff-9f71-535fde243f58\",\"resource_type\":\"project\",\"role\":\"DataPlaneEditor\"}]}"

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

{
  "client_secret": "8p-kkC23XOWvkCosKq-BOn3G74qp__rBcDMxc82iB4gfzRvuhSCRBKM7C5Q7TAzj",
  "service_account": {
    "client_id": "l3Ow0CmFyc4jOONcwiKUCRqQKN0tiCAn",
    "created_at": "2026-04-10T15:23:00.000Z",
    "id": "f8a3b2c1-4d5e-6f7a-8b9c-0d1e2f3a4b5c",
    "name": "My Service Account",
    "updated_at": "2026-04-10T15:23:00.000Z"
  }
}

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

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

{
  "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
}

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

{
  "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
}