---
title: "Create Project"
method: POST
path: "/v4/organizations/{organizationId}/projects"
tags: ["Projects"]
---

# Create Project

`POST /v4/organizations/{organizationId}/projects`

Creates a new project under the organization.

In order to access this endpoint, the provided API key must have at least one of the following roles:
- Organization Owner
- Project Creator

To learn more, see [Organization, Project, and Database Access Overview](https://docs.couchbase.com/cloud/organizations/organization-projects-overview.html).

## Request body

- CreateProjectRequest
  - `name` string, required — The name of the project (up to 128 characters).
  - `description` string — A short description of the project (up to 256 characters).

## Response `201`

Successfully created a project under the organization.

- CreateProjectResponse
  - `id` string, uuid, required — The ID of the project created.

## Other responses

- `400` — Returned when we are unable to decode the recevied payload.
- `403` — The client does not have the necessary permissions to access this resource.
- `422` — Request validation error.
- `429` — Returned when the client exceeds the rate limit for the given APIKey.
- `500` — An unexpected error occurred in the server while processing this request.

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