Create User Profile

beta.user_profiles.create(**kwargs) -> BetaUserProfile

POST/v1/user_profiles

Create User Profile

Parameters

access_type: :application | :passthrough

How the platform uses the API on behalf of the entity this profile represents. application: the platform sells a product that uses the API behind the scenes, and the profile represents an individual end-user of that product. passthrough: the platform resells raw inference, and the profile identifies the resold-to company.

One of the following:

:application

:passthrough

external_id: String

Platform's own identifier for this user. Not enforced unique. Maximum 255 characters.

minLength1

maxLength255

metadata: Hash[Symbol, String]

Free-form key-value data to attach to this user profile. Maximum 16 keys, with keys up to 64 characters and values up to 512 characters. Values must be non-empty strings.

name: String

Optional for all profiles. Real-world name of the entity this profile represents (company or individual); for a resold-to company (relationship resold / access_type passthrough), that company's name where known. Maximum 255 characters.

minLength1

maxLength255

relationship: :external | :resold | :internal

How the entity behind a user profile relates to the platform that owns the API key. external: an individual end-user of the platform. resold: a company the platform resells Claude access to. internal: the platform's own usage.

One of the following:

:external

:resold

:internal

betas: Array[AnthropicBeta]

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

One of the following:

String = String

AnthropicBeta = :"message-batches-2024-09-24" | :"prompt-caching-2024-07-31" | :"computer-use-2024-10-22" | 38 more

One of the following:

:"message-batches-2024-09-24"

:"prompt-caching-2024-07-31"

:"computer-use-2024-10-22"

:"computer-use-2025-01-24"

:"pdfs-2024-09-25"

:"token-counting-2024-11-01"

:"token-efficient-tools-2025-02-19"

:"output-128k-2025-02-19"

:"files-api-2025-04-14"

:"mcp-client-2025-04-04"

:"mcp-client-2025-11-20"

:"dev-full-thinking-2025-05-14"

:"interleaved-thinking-2025-05-14"

:"code-execution-2025-05-22"

:"extended-cache-ttl-2025-04-11"

:"context-1m-2025-08-07"

:"context-management-2025-06-27"

:"model-context-window-exceeded-2025-08-26"

:"skills-2025-10-02"

:"fast-mode-2026-02-01"

:"output-300k-2026-03-24"

:"user-profiles-2026-03-24"

:"user-profiles-2026-08-18"

:"advisor-tool-2026-03-01"

:"managed-agents-2026-04-01"

:"cache-diagnosis-2026-04-07"

:"dreaming-2026-04-21"

:"thinking-token-count-2026-05-13"

:"server-side-fallback-2026-06-01"

:"server-side-fallback-2026-07-01"

:"fallback-credit-2026-06-01"

:"fallback-credit-2026-07-01"

:"agent-memory-2026-07-22"

:"mid-conversation-tool-changes-2026-07-01"

:"compact-2026-01-12"

:"computer-use-2025-11-24"

:"mcp-tunnels-2026-06-22"

:"structured-outputs-2025-11-13"

:"task-budgets-2026-03-13"

:"thinking-display-updates-2026-08-18"

:"ce-user-management-2026-07-13"

Returns

class BetaUserProfile { id, created_at, metadata, 7 more }

Create User Profile

require "anthropic"

anthropic = Anthropic::Client.new(api_key: "my-anthropic-api-key")

beta_user_profile = anthropic.beta.user_profiles.create

puts(beta_user_profile)

{
  "id": "uprof_011CZkZCu8hGbp5mYRQgUmz9",
  "created_at": "2026-03-15T10:00:00Z",
  "metadata": {},
  "trust_grants": {
    "cyber": {
      "status": "active"
    }
  },
  "type": "user_profile",
  "updated_at": "2026-03-15T10:00:00Z",
  "access_type": "application",
  "external_id": "user_12345",
  "name": "Example User",
  "relationship": "external"
}

Returns Examples

{
  "id": "uprof_011CZkZCu8hGbp5mYRQgUmz9",
  "created_at": "2026-03-15T10:00:00Z",
  "metadata": {},
  "trust_grants": {
    "cyber": {
      "status": "active"
    }
  },
  "type": "user_profile",
  "updated_at": "2026-03-15T10:00:00Z",
  "access_type": "application",
  "external_id": "user_12345",
  "name": "Example User",
  "relationship": "external"
}