---
title: "Pause a ChatGPT Ads ad"
method: POST
path: "/api/v1/tools/chatgpt_pause_ad/execute"
tags: ["ChatGPT Ads"]
---

# Pause a ChatGPT Ads ad

`POST /api/v1/tools/chatgpt_pause_ad/execute`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://adako.ai`
- URL: `https://adako.ai/api/v1/tools/chatgpt_pause_ad/execute`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

Stops delivery on one ad and leaves everything around it running. Nothing is deleted: the creative, its review verdict and its history stay, and chatgpt_resume_ad starts it again.
Use when: one creative is clearly worse than the others in the same ad group, and you have shown the user the numbers at ad level from chatgpt_get_performance.
Do not pause the only ad in an ad group and call the ad group fixed — an ad group with no active ad delivers nothing at all; say that plainly instead.
Do not judge a creative on a day of data. This platform's daily numbers are noisy at small budgets.
Returns the ad read back from the platform, which is how the pause is confirmed rather than assumed.

## Headers

- `Idempotency-Key` string

## Request body

- object
  - `arguments` object, required
    - `ad_account_id` string: ChatGPT Ads advertiser account id. One advertiser key belongs to one account, so this is only needed when the user has connected more than one key. Omit it to use the primary account.
    - `ad_id` string, required: The ad to act on, from chatgpt_list_ads.
    - `idempotency_key` string: Optional caller-supplied key; identical keys never execute twice.
    - `raw_data` boolean: Return compact JSON only (no markdown). Use when you will compute on the result.

## Response `200`

The tool ran. A write returns proposal_id and approve_url while the change waits for approval.

- SuccessEnvelope
  - `success` unknown, required
  - `tool` string, required
  - `data` object, required: Machine-readable result.
  - `markdown` string, required: The same result written for a person or a model.
  - `quota` Quota: Task usage for the current billing period.
    - `plan` string
    - `used` integer
    - `limit` integer
    - `period_end` string
    - `upgrade_url` string
  - `proposal_id` string: Present for writes. Nothing changes on the ad platform until it is approved.
  - `approve_url` string: Where a person approves the proposal.
  - `request_id` string, required

## Other responses

- `400`: Invalid arguments, or the ad account could not be resolved.
- `401`: Missing, invalid, revoked or expired API key.
- `402`: Monthly task quota used up, or the plan does not include this tool.
- `403`: The connected ad account lacks the access level this tool needs.
- `404`: Unknown tool name.
- `409`: Not connected, reconnect needed, confirmation required, a proposal already pending or no longer pending, an identical create that failed earlier today (proposal_failed_before), a create that duplicates an approved one (duplicate_create), the ad-account limit of the plan reached (account_limit), or an Idempotency-Key reused with different arguments.
- `429`: Rate limited by Adako or by the ad platform. See Retry-After.
- `500`: Unexpected error inside Adako.
- `502`: The ad platform returned an error.

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