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Organizations and projects

Understand organization-wide roles, project boundaries, grants, and lifecycle.

An organization is the top-level tenancy boundary in the API Platform. It owns projects, members, billing, and organization-wide policy. Projects divide integrations within that boundary: they scope API keys, member access, usage and request-log attribution, and applicable project limits.

Roles and project grants

Role Scope Primary responsibilities
Owner Organization-wide Full administration, including ownership transfer and organization deletion. An organization has exactly one Owner.
Admin Organization-wide Manage members, invites, project grants, projects, and organization settings.
Developer Granted projects Create and revoke credentials and read operational data within explicitly granted projects.
Viewer Granted projects Read usage, logs, resolved limits, and membership information without creating credentials or changing configuration.

Developer and Viewer access is default-deny: they can access only explicitly granted projects. Owner and Admin access is organization-wide and does not depend on project grants.

API key authority is independent of the role held by the member who created the key. A later role or membership change does not silently change a running integration’s key permissions.

Open Organization

Manage organization membership, roles, invitations, grants, and settings.

Project lifecycle

Every organization has a Default Project and can create additional projects for separate applications, environments, teams, or customers.

  • The Default Project can be renamed but cannot be archived.
  • Archiving another project retires its API keys; final invalidation can take about a minute.
  • Archived projects remain as historical attribution for usage and request logs.
  • Treat each production integration as its own project when it needs independent credentials, access, or attribution.

Open Projects

Manage the project boundaries within an organization.

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