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# Update a custom organization role

> Rename a custom role in your organization or replace the capabilities it grants.



## OpenAPI

````yaml patch /v2/organization/roles/{id}
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: Runpod REST API
  version: 2.0.0
  description: Runpod public REST API — v2
servers:
  - url: https://api.runpod.io
    description: Runpod API v2 production server
security:
  - bearerAuth: []
tags:
  - name: Organization
    description: Organization identity, membership, and access management.
  - name: Account
    description: Account-scoped settings and primitives (SSH public keys).
  - name: Pods
    description: GPU and CPU pod lifecycle, configuration, actions, and log streaming.
  - name: Serverless
    description: >-
      Serverless endpoint lifecycle, worker visibility, releases, and worker log
      streaming.
  - name: Templates
    description: Reusable pod and endpoint configuration templates.
  - name: Network Volumes
    description: Persistent network storage volumes for workloads.
  - name: Global Volumes
    description: >-
      Cross-data-center storage volumes that mount into workloads without
      pinning them to a data center.
  - name: Registries
    description: Container registry credentials used to pull private images.
  - name: Catalog
    description: Available GPU, CPU, data center, and public template catalog metadata.
  - name: Billing
    description: Billing history and usage cost records across resource types.
  - name: Cost Centers
    description: Named labels that attribute resource spend for billing breakdowns.
  - name: Audit Logs
    description: Record of who did what to which resource on the account.
paths:
  /v2/organization/roles/{id}:
    parameters:
      - name: id
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
        description: Role identifier
        example: cmcustomrole0001
    patch:
      tags:
        - Organization
      summary: Update a custom organization role
      description: >-
        Changes a custom role's name, its capabilities, or both, and returns the
        role. Sent capabilities replace the whole grant set. Returns 400 for a
        built-in role, which cannot be changed; 404 when the ID is unknown or
        names another organization's role; 403 when the caller does not hold
        every capability the role grants, before or after the change; 409 when
        the organization already has a role with the new name; and 422 when a
        capability is unknown or the name is reserved. Updating roles requires
        the organization's role-management capability, which the built-in admin
        role holds; other members, and callers outside an organization, receive
        403, as does a caller for whom organizations are unavailable.
      operationId: updateOrganizationRole
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/UpdateOrganizationRoleRequest'
            examples:
              rename:
                summary: Rename a role
                value:
                  name: Pod operator
              capabilities:
                summary: Replace a role's capabilities
                value:
                  capabilities:
                    - POD:USE
                    - POD:VIEW
      responses:
        '200':
          headers:
            RateLimit:
              $ref: '#/components/headers/RateLimit'
            RateLimit-Policy:
              $ref: '#/components/headers/RateLimit-Policy'
          description: OK
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/OrganizationRole'
              examples:
                role:
                  summary: Successful response
                  value:
                    id: cmcustomrole0001
                    name: Pod operator
                    type: custom
                    capabilities:
                      - POD:USE
                      - POD:VIEW
                    createdAt: '2026-10-01T09:00:00Z'
                    updatedAt: '2026-10-03T09:00:00Z'
        '400':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/BadRequestError'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/UnauthorizedError'
        '403':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/ForbiddenError'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFoundError'
        '409':
          description: The organization already has a role with this name.
          content:
            application/problem+json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
        '413':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/RequestTooLargeError'
        '422':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/UnprocessableEntityError'
        '429':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/TooManyRequestsError'
        default:
          headers:
            RateLimit:
              $ref: '#/components/headers/RateLimit'
            RateLimit-Policy:
              $ref: '#/components/headers/RateLimit-Policy'
          description: Error
          content:
            application/problem+json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
components:
  schemas:
    UpdateOrganizationRoleRequest:
      type: object
      additionalProperties: false
      minProperties: 1
      description: >-
        The fields to change; omitted fields are unchanged. `capabilities`
        replaces the role's whole grant set rather than adding to it.
      properties:
        name:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/OrganizationRoleName'
        capabilities:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/OrganizationRoleCapabilitiesInput'
    OrganizationRole:
      description: >-
        A role an organization member or invite can hold: one of Runpod's
        built-in roles, or a custom role the organization defined.
      oneOf:
        - $ref: '#/components/schemas/BuiltinOrganizationRole'
        - $ref: '#/components/schemas/CustomOrganizationRole'
      discriminator:
        propertyName: type
        mapping:
          builtin: '#/components/schemas/BuiltinOrganizationRole'
          custom: '#/components/schemas/CustomOrganizationRole'
    ErrorResponse:
      type: object
      required:
        - title
        - status
        - detail
      properties:
        title:
          type: string
          description: Short human-readable summary
          examples:
            - Not Found
        status:
          type: integer
          description: HTTP status code
          examples:
            - 404
        detail:
          type: string
          description: Human-readable explanation
          examples:
            - pod not found
        errors:
          type: array
          description: Individual request-validation failures.
          items:
            type: string
          examples:
            - - '$: additional properties ''bogus'' not allowed'
    OrganizationRoleName:
      type: string
      minLength: 1
      maxLength: 191
      pattern: "[^\\t-\\r \N\_  - \L\P  　]"
      description: >-
        Display name, 1–191 characters with at least one non-whitespace
        character. Leading and trailing whitespace is trimmed. It must be unique
        within the organization and cannot be a built-in role's name.
      examples:
        - Pod viewer
    OrganizationRoleCapabilitiesInput:
      type: array
      description: >-
        What the role grants, as `FAMILY:VERB` capabilities from `GET
        /v2/organization/roles/capabilities`. The caller must hold every
        capability it lists.
      minItems: 1
      uniqueItems: true
      items:
        type: string
        pattern: ^[A-Z0-9_]+:[A-Z0-9_]+$
      examples:
        - - POD:VIEW
    RateLimitHeader:
      type: string
      description: |
        Live per-window quota state. Optional — omitted for rate-limit-exempt
        callers.

        A structured-field list with one member per window (`minute`, `hour`,
        `day`), each carrying the remaining request count `r` and seconds until
        the window resets `t` (at least 1). Windows are fixed and aligned to the
        clock, not sliding. Returned on responses to authenticated requests,
        not only on 429s.
      examples:
        - '"minute";r=0;t=12, "hour";r=2800;t=1812, "day";r=49500;t=45012'
    RateLimitPolicyHeader:
      type: string
      description: >
        Static per-window quota policy. Optional — omitted for rate-limit-exempt

        callers.


        A structured-field list with one member per window (`minute`, `hour`,

        `day`), each carrying the quota `q` and the window length in seconds
        `w`.

        Returned on responses to authenticated requests, not only on 429s.


        Limits are per user, and every `/v2` route counts toward the same

        limits; creating pods has no separate limit. Read the current quotas
        from

        this header instead of hard-coding them, because they can change and
        some

        accounts have higher limits. A 429 only slows you down: wait for the

        `Retry-After` time and retry. Your account isn't suspended.
      examples:
        - '"minute";q=180;w=60, "hour";q=3600;w=3600, "day";q=43200;w=86400'
    BuiltinOrganizationRole:
      type: object
      description: A role Runpod defines. Built-in roles cannot be changed.
      required:
        - id
        - name
        - type
        - capabilities
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
          description: Role ID, `builtin:` followed by the role's key.
          examples:
            - builtin:dev
        name:
          type: string
          description: Display name.
          examples:
            - Developer
        type:
          type: string
          description: Always `builtin` for this variant.
          x-enum-varnames:
            - BuiltinOrganizationRoleTypeBuiltin
          enum:
            - builtin
        capabilities:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/OrganizationRoleCapabilities'
    CustomOrganizationRole:
      type: object
      description: A role the caller's organization defined.
      required:
        - id
        - name
        - type
        - capabilities
        - createdAt
        - updatedAt
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
          description: Role ID.
          examples:
            - cmcustomrole0001
        name:
          type: string
          description: Display name, unique within the organization.
          examples:
            - Pod viewer
        type:
          type: string
          description: Always `custom` for this variant.
          x-enum-varnames:
            - CustomOrganizationRoleTypeCustom
          enum:
            - custom
        capabilities:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/OrganizationRoleCapabilities'
        createdAt:
          type: string
          format: date-time
          description: When the role was created.
          examples:
            - '2026-10-01T09:00:00Z'
        updatedAt:
          type: string
          format: date-time
          description: >-
            When the role last changed. Assigning the role to a member or invite
            can also move it.
          examples:
            - '2026-10-02T09:00:00Z'
    OrganizationRoleCapabilities:
      type: array
      description: >-
        What the role grants, as `FAMILY:VERB` capabilities, sorted. A member's
        effective access can also include account-level access that no role
        grants.
      items:
        type: string
      examples:
        - - POD:CREATE
          - POD:VIEW
  headers:
    RateLimit:
      description: Live quota state for the caller, per the IETF ratelimit-headers draft.
      schema:
        $ref: '#/components/schemas/RateLimitHeader'
    RateLimit-Policy:
      description: >-
        The quota policy behind `RateLimit`, per the IETF ratelimit-headers
        draft.
      schema:
        $ref: '#/components/schemas/RateLimitPolicyHeader'
  responses:
    BadRequestError:
      headers:
        RateLimit:
          $ref: '#/components/headers/RateLimit'
        RateLimit-Policy:
          $ref: '#/components/headers/RateLimit-Policy'
      description: >-
        The request could not be processed because it is malformed or conflicts
        with request rules.
      content:
        application/problem+json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
          examples:
            badRequest:
              summary: Bad request
              value:
                title: Bad Request
                status: 400
                detail: request could not be processed
    UnauthorizedError:
      description: >-
        Authentication failed because the bearer token is missing, malformed,
        expired, or invalid.
      content:
        application/problem+json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
          examples:
            missingBearerToken:
              summary: Missing bearer token
              value:
                title: Unauthorized
                status: 401
                detail: missing bearer token
    ForbiddenError:
      headers:
        RateLimit:
          $ref: '#/components/headers/RateLimit'
        RateLimit-Policy:
          $ref: '#/components/headers/RateLimit-Policy'
      description: >-
        The bearer token is valid, but it does not grant access to the requested
        resource or action.
      content:
        application/problem+json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
          examples:
            insufficientAccess:
              summary: Insufficient access
              value:
                title: Forbidden
                status: 403
                detail: access denied
    NotFoundError:
      headers:
        RateLimit:
          $ref: '#/components/headers/RateLimit'
        RateLimit-Policy:
          $ref: '#/components/headers/RateLimit-Policy'
      description: The requested resource was not found or is not accessible to the caller.
      content:
        application/problem+json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
          examples:
            notFound:
              summary: Resource not found
              value:
                title: Not Found
                status: 404
                detail: resource not found
    RequestTooLargeError:
      headers:
        RateLimit:
          $ref: '#/components/headers/RateLimit'
        RateLimit-Policy:
          $ref: '#/components/headers/RateLimit-Policy'
      description: |
        The incoming request body exceeds 1048576 bytes (1 MiB). Body size is
        checked after authentication and rate limiting. GET and DELETE reject
        any nonempty request body with `422` instead.

        An operation can also return this status when the request it expands
        into is too large, even if the incoming body is within the limit.
      content:
        application/problem+json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
          examples:
            requestTooLarge:
              summary: Request body exceeds the limit
              value:
                title: Request Entity Too Large
                status: 413
                detail: Request body exceeds the 1048576 byte limit.
    UnprocessableEntityError:
      headers:
        RateLimit:
          $ref: '#/components/headers/RateLimit'
        RateLimit-Policy:
          $ref: '#/components/headers/RateLimit-Policy'
      description: >-
        The request body or parameters were syntactically valid but failed
        validation.
      content:
        application/problem+json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
          examples:
            validationFailed:
              summary: Validation failed
              value:
                title: Unprocessable Entity
                status: 422
                detail: Request validation failed.
    TooManyRequestsError:
      description: >
        The caller exceeded its per-user rate limit. The response identifies the
        window that was exceeded and how long to wait. The `RateLimit` and
        `RateLimit-Policy` headers (per the IETF ratelimit-headers draft) also
        accompany successful responses, so clients can track quota before a 429.
      headers:
        Retry-After:
          description: Seconds to wait before retrying, per the exceeded window.
          schema:
            type: integer
          example: 12
        RateLimit:
          $ref: '#/components/headers/RateLimit'
        RateLimit-Policy:
          $ref: '#/components/headers/RateLimit-Policy'
      content:
        application/problem+json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResponse'
          examples:
            rateLimited:
              summary: Rate limit exceeded
              value:
                title: Too Many Requests
                status: 429
                detail: rate limit exceeded for the minute window
  securitySchemes:
    bearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      bearerFormat: Runpod API Key
      description: >
        Runpod API key authentication. Generate an API key in the Runpod console
        and send it in the `Authorization` header as `Bearer <api_key>`. Keys
        are scoped to the permissions granted when created; requests may return
        `403` when a valid key lacks access to the requested resource or action.


        Console sessions (Clerk JWTs) act for the signed-in user. To act for a
        team instead, also send `X-Team-Id: <team_id>`; it applies only when the
        user owns or belongs to that team, otherwise the request runs against
        the user's own account. API keys created inside a team already act for
        that team and do not need the header.

````