Create Tunnel

BetaTunnel beta().tunnels().create(, )

POST/v1/tunnels

The Tunnels API is in research preview. It requires the anthropic-beta: mcp-tunnels-2026-06-22 header and may change without a deprecation period. It supersedes the Admin API endpoints at /v1/organizations/tunnels, which remain available during a migration window.

Creates a tunnel. Creation allocates a fresh hostname and provisions the tunnel; it is not idempotent. The new tunnel rejects MCP traffic until at least one CA certificate is added.

Parameters

TunnelCreateParams params

Optional<List<AnthropicBeta>> betas

Optional header to specify the beta version(s) you want to use.

MESSAGE_BATCHES_2024_09_24("message-batches-2024-09-24")

PROMPT_CACHING_2024_07_31("prompt-caching-2024-07-31")

COMPUTER_USE_2024_10_22("computer-use-2024-10-22")

COMPUTER_USE_2025_01_24("computer-use-2025-01-24")

PDFS_2024_09_25("pdfs-2024-09-25")

TOKEN_COUNTING_2024_11_01("token-counting-2024-11-01")

TOKEN_EFFICIENT_TOOLS_2025_02_19("token-efficient-tools-2025-02-19")

OUTPUT_128K_2025_02_19("output-128k-2025-02-19")

FILES_API_2025_04_14("files-api-2025-04-14")

MCP_CLIENT_2025_04_04("mcp-client-2025-04-04")

MCP_CLIENT_2025_11_20("mcp-client-2025-11-20")

DEV_FULL_THINKING_2025_05_14("dev-full-thinking-2025-05-14")

INTERLEAVED_THINKING_2025_05_14("interleaved-thinking-2025-05-14")

CODE_EXECUTION_2025_05_22("code-execution-2025-05-22")

EXTENDED_CACHE_TTL_2025_04_11("extended-cache-ttl-2025-04-11")

CONTEXT_1M_2025_08_07("context-1m-2025-08-07")

CONTEXT_MANAGEMENT_2025_06_27("context-management-2025-06-27")

MODEL_CONTEXT_WINDOW_EXCEEDED_2025_08_26("model-context-window-exceeded-2025-08-26")

SKILLS_2025_10_02("skills-2025-10-02")

FAST_MODE_2026_02_01("fast-mode-2026-02-01")

OUTPUT_300K_2026_03_24("output-300k-2026-03-24")

USER_PROFILES_2026_03_24("user-profiles-2026-03-24")

USER_PROFILES_2026_08_18("user-profiles-2026-08-18")

ADVISOR_TOOL_2026_03_01("advisor-tool-2026-03-01")

MANAGED_AGENTS_2026_04_01("managed-agents-2026-04-01")

CACHE_DIAGNOSIS_2026_04_07("cache-diagnosis-2026-04-07")

DREAMING_2026_04_21("dreaming-2026-04-21")

THINKING_TOKEN_COUNT_2026_05_13("thinking-token-count-2026-05-13")

SERVER_SIDE_FALLBACK_2026_06_01("server-side-fallback-2026-06-01")

SERVER_SIDE_FALLBACK_2026_07_01("server-side-fallback-2026-07-01")

FALLBACK_CREDIT_2026_06_01("fallback-credit-2026-06-01")

FALLBACK_CREDIT_2026_07_01("fallback-credit-2026-07-01")

AGENT_MEMORY_2026_07_22("agent-memory-2026-07-22")

MID_CONVERSATION_TOOL_CHANGES_2026_07_01("mid-conversation-tool-changes-2026-07-01")

COMPACT_2026_01_12("compact-2026-01-12")

COMPUTER_USE_2025_11_24("computer-use-2025-11-24")

MCP_TUNNELS_2026_06_22("mcp-tunnels-2026-06-22")

STRUCTURED_OUTPUTS_2025_11_13("structured-outputs-2025-11-13")

TASK_BUDGETS_2026_03_13("task-budgets-2026-03-13")

THINKING_DISPLAY_UPDATES_2026_08_18("thinking-display-updates-2026-08-18")

CE_USER_MANAGEMENT_2026_07_13("ce-user-management-2026-07-13")

Optional<String> displayName

Optional human-readable name for the tunnel (1-255 characters).

minLength1

maxLength255

Returns

class BetaTunnel:

An MCP tunnel.

String id

Unique identifier for the tunnel, prefixed with tnl_.

Optional<LocalDateTime> archivedAt

A timestamp in RFC 3339 format

formatdate-time

LocalDateTime createdAt

A timestamp in RFC 3339 format

formatdate-time

Optional<String> displayName

Human-readable name for the tunnel (1-255 characters). Null if unset.

String domain

Anthropic-assigned hostname for the tunnel. MCP server URLs whose host is a subdomain of this value are routed through the tunnel. Globally unique and never reused, even after the tunnel is archived.

JsonValue type

Create Tunnel

package com.anthropic.example;

import com.anthropic.client.AnthropicClient;
import com.anthropic.client.okhttp.AnthropicOkHttpClient;
import com.anthropic.models.beta.tunnels.BetaTunnel;
import com.anthropic.models.beta.tunnels.TunnelCreateParams;

public final class Main {
    private Main() {}

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        AnthropicClient client = AnthropicOkHttpClient.fromEnv();

        BetaTunnel betaTunnel = client.beta().tunnels().create();
    }
}

{
  "id": "id",
  "archived_at": "2019-12-27T18:11:19.117Z",
  "created_at": "2019-12-27T18:11:19.117Z",
  "display_name": "display_name",
  "domain": "domain",
  "type": "tunnel"
}

Returns Examples

{
  "id": "id",
  "archived_at": "2019-12-27T18:11:19.117Z",
  "created_at": "2019-12-27T18:11:19.117Z",
  "display_name": "display_name",
  "domain": "domain",
  "type": "tunnel"
}