---
title: "Archive Service Account"
method: POST
path: "/v1/organizations/service_accounts/{service_account_id}/archive"
---

# Archive Service Account

`POST /v1/organizations/service_accounts/{service_account_id}/archive`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.anthropic.com`
- URL: `https://api.anthropic.com/v1/organizations/service_accounts/{service_account_id}/archive`
- Auth: none declared

**Requires an OAuth access token with the `org:admin` scope**, from `ant auth login --scope org:admin` or a workload identity federation rule; Admin API keys are not accepted. See [Manage WIF with the Admin API](/docs/en/manage-claude/wif-admin-api).

Archive a service account.

Idempotent; re-archiving returns the service account with its original
`archived_at`. Rejected with 400 if any live (non-archived) federation
rule still targets this service account, same as issuer archival; archive
those rules first or change their target to another service account.

## Path parameters

- `service_account_id` string, required: ID of the service account to archive.

## Headers

- `anthropic-version` string: The version of the Claude API you want to use. Read more about versioning and our version history [here](https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/api/versioning).

## Response `200`

Successful Response

- ServiceAccount: Named non-human identity within the caller's organization. A service account is a pure identity: name + org. Authorization lives on whatever references it (federation rules).
  - `archived_at` string, date-time, nullable, required: If set, this service account is archived.
  - `archived_by_actor_id` string, nullable, required: Tagged ID (`user_`/`svac_`) of the actor that archived this service account.
  - `created_at` string, date-time, required: When this service account was created.
  - `created_by_actor_id` string, nullable, required: Tagged ID (`user_`/`svac_`) of the actor that created this service account.
  - `description` string, nullable, required: Optional free-text description.
  - `id` string, required: Tagged ID of the service account.
  - `name` string, required: Admin-chosen slug identifier.
  - `organization_role` 'admin' | 'developer', required: Org-level role. A federation rule may only be created or retargeted to grant `org:admin` scope when this is `admin`. A rule granting `org:admin` whose target is later demoted to `developer` is rejected at token exchange. Rules granting `org:admin` are managed in the Console.
  - `type` 'service_account', required
  - `updated_at` string, date-time, required: When this service account was last updated.
  - `updated_by_actor_id` string, nullable, required: Tagged ID (`user_`/`svac_`) of the actor that last updated this service account.

## Other responses

- `400`: Invalid argument - The client specified an invalid argument
- `401`: Unauthenticated - The request does not have valid authentication credentials
- `403`: Permission denied - The caller does not have permission to execute the specified operation
- `404`: Not found - Some requested entity was not found
- `408`: Deadline exceeded - The deadline expired before the operation could complete
- `409`: Aborted - The operation was aborted due to concurrency issue
- `412`: Failed precondition - Operation was rejected because the system is not in required state
- `413`: Out of range - Operation was attempted past the valid range
- `429`: Resource exhausted - Some resource has been exhausted (rate limiting)
- `431`: Request header fields too large - Request metadata was too large
- `499`: Cancelled - The operation was cancelled by the client
- `500`: Internal - Internal server error
- `501`: Unimplemented - The operation is not implemented or supported
- `503`: Unavailable - The service is currently unavailable
- `504`: Deadline exceeded - Upstream service did not respond in time
- `529`: Overloaded - The service is temporarily overloaded

## Changes

- **2026-09-30** `51c5260134e8`: 1 info
  - endpoint added

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/anthropics/apis/anthropic-api/changes/v1/organizations/service_accounts/:service_account_id/archive/post.md)

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