---
title: "Create"
method: POST
path: "/service_users"
tags: ["ServiceUsers"]
---

# Create

`POST /service_users`

Create a new service user

## Headers

- `ngrok-version` integer, required

## Request body

- ServiceUserCreate
  - `name` string — human-readable name used to identify the service
  - `active` boolean — whether or not the service is active

## Response `201`

Create a new service user

- ServiceUser
  - `id` string — unique API key resource identifier
  - `uri` string — URI to the API resource of this service user
  - `name` string — human-readable name used to identify the service
  - `active` boolean — whether or not the service is active
  - `created_at` string — timestamp when the api key was created, RFC 3339 format

## Other responses

- `4XX` — An error. The body carries a machine-readable error_code and a human-readable msg; every code is documented at https://ngrok.com/docs/errors. A 429 with error code ERR_NGROK_226 means the account exceeded the documented request-rate limit.
- `5XX` — An error. The body carries a machine-readable error_code and a human-readable msg; every code is documented at https://ngrok.com/docs/errors. A 429 with error code ERR_NGROK_226 means the account exceeded the documented request-rate limit.

## Changes

- **2025-12-16** `602cd080d3a7` — 1 info
  - endpoint added

[Change history](https://skmtc.dev/ngrok/apis/ngrok-openapi/changes/service_users/post.md)

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