--- title: "POST /v1/projects/{projectsId}/locations/{locationsId}/models:copy" method: POST path: "/v1/projects/{projectsId}/locations/{locationsId}/models:copy" tags: ["projects"] --- # POST /v1/projects/{projectsId}/locations/{locationsId}/models:copy `POST /v1/projects/{projectsId}/locations/{locationsId}/models:copy` ## Request - Base URL: `https://aiplatform.googleapis.com` - URL: `https://aiplatform.googleapis.com/v1/projects/{projectsId}/locations/{locationsId}/models:copy` - Auth: one of: - OAuth 2 and OAuth 2 - Implicit: `https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth` - Scopes: `https://www.googleapis.com/auth/aiplatform` - Authorization code: `https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth` - Token URL: `https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token` scopes: `https://www.googleapis.com/auth/aiplatform` - OAuth 2 and OAuth 2 - Implicit: `https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth` - Scopes: `https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform` - Authorization code: `https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth` - Token URL: `https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token` scopes: `https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform` Copies an already existing Vertex AI Model into the specified Location. The source Model must exist in the same Project. When copying custom Models, the users themselves are responsible for Model.metadata content to be region-agnostic, as well as making sure that any resources (e.g. files) it depends on remain accessible. ## Path parameters - `projectsId` string, required - `locationsId` string, required ## Request body - GoogleCloudAiplatformV1CopyModelRequest: Request message for ModelService.CopyModel. - `customServiceAccount` string: Optional. The user-provided custom service account to use to do the copy model. If empty, [Vertex AI Service Agent](https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/docs/general/access-control#service-agents) will be used to access resources needed to upload the model. This account must belong to the destination project where the model is copied to, i.e., the project specified in the `parent` field of this request and have the Vertex AI Service Agent role in the source project. Requires the user copying the Model to have the `iam.serviceAccounts.actAs` permission on this service account. - `encryptionSpec` GoogleCloudAiplatformV1EncryptionSpec: Represents a customer-managed encryption key specification that can be applied to a Vertex AI resource. - `kmsKeyName` string: Required. Resource name of the Cloud KMS key used to protect the resource. The Cloud KMS key must be in the same region as the resource. It must have the format `projects/{project}/locations/{location}/keyRings/{key_ring}/cryptoKeys/{crypto_key}`. - `modelId` string: Optional. Copy source_model into a new Model with this ID. The ID will become the final component of the model resource name. This value may be up to 63 characters, and valid characters are `[a-z0-9_-]`. The first character cannot be a number or hyphen. - `parentModel` string: Optional. Specify this field to copy source_model into this existing Model as a new version. Format: `projects/{project}/locations/{location}/models/{model}` - `sourceModel` string: Required. The resource name of the Model to copy. That Model must be in the same Project. Format: `projects/{project}/locations/{location}/models/{model}` ## Response `200` Successful response - GoogleLongrunningOperation: This resource represents a long-running operation that is the result of a network API call. - `done` boolean: If the value is `false`, it means the operation is still in progress. If `true`, the operation is completed, and either `error` or `response` is available. - `error` GoogleRpcStatus: The `Status` type defines a logical error model that is suitable for different programming environments, including REST APIs and RPC APIs. It is used by [gRPC](https://github.com/grpc). Each `Status` message contains three pieces of data: error code, error message, and error details. You can find out more about this error model and how to work with it in the [API Design Guide](https://cloud.google.com/apis/design/errors). - `code` integer: The status code, which should be an enum value of google.rpc.Code. - `details` object[]: A list of messages that carry the error details. There is a common set of message types for APIs to use. - `message` string: A developer-facing error message, which should be in English. Any user-facing error message should be localized and sent in the google.rpc.Status.details field, or localized by the client. - `metadata` object: Service-specific metadata associated with the operation. It typically contains progress information and common metadata such as create time. Some services might not provide such metadata. Any method that returns a long-running operation should document the metadata type, if any. - `name` string: The server-assigned name, which is only unique within the same service that originally returns it. If you use the default HTTP mapping, the `name` should be a resource name ending with `operations/{unique_id}`. - `response` object: The normal, successful response of the operation. If the original method returns no data on success, such as `Delete`, the response is `google.protobuf.Empty`. If the original method is standard `Get`/`Create`/`Update`, the response should be the resource. For other methods, the response should have the type `XxxResponse`, where `Xxx` is the original method name. For example, if the original method name is `TakeSnapshot()`, the inferred response type is `TakeSnapshotResponse`. ## Changes - **2026-11-06** `3aca3b348f0c`: 4 info - the security scope `https://www.googleapis.com/auth/aiplatform` was added to the endpoint's security scheme `Oauth2` - the security scope `https://www.googleapis.com/auth/aiplatform` was added to the endpoint's security scheme `Oauth2c` - the security scope `https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform` was removed from the endpoint's security scheme `Oauth2` - the security scope `https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform` was removed from the endpoint's security scheme `Oauth2c` - **2026-10-30** `34fcc627b062`: 4 info - the security scope `https://www.googleapis.com/auth/aiplatform` was added to the endpoint's security scheme `Oauth2` - the security scope `https://www.googleapis.com/auth/aiplatform` was added to the endpoint's security scheme `Oauth2c` - the security scope `https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform` was removed from the endpoint's security scheme `Oauth2` - the security scope `https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform` was removed from the endpoint's security scheme `Oauth2c` [Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/google/apis/aiplatform/changes/v1/projects/:projectsId/locations/:locationsId/models:copy/post.md) --- [API](https://skmtc.dev/google/apis/aiplatform.md) - [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/google/apis/aiplatform/llms.txt) - [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/google/apis/aiplatform/revisions/3aca3b348f0c?raw)