curl -X POST 'https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/service-accounts' \
  -H "xi-api-key: $ELEVENLABS_API_KEY" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
  "name": "string",
  "default_sharing_groups": [
    {
      "group_id": "string",
      "permission_level": "admin"
    }
  ]
}'

# POST /v1/service-accounts (ElevenLabs API)
Base URL: https://api.elevenlabs.io
Auth: xi-api-key: <ELEVENLABS_API_KEY>
Last verified: 2026-09-03

> Create Service Account

## Critical Gotchas
* Authentication uses the non-standard `xi-api-key` header, not `Authorization: Bearer`. Sending a Bearer token returns HTTP 401.
* Text-to-speech responses are raw binary audio, not JSON. Write the body to a file (`--output speech.mp3`) rather than parsing it.

## cURL
curl -X POST 'https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/service-accounts' \
  -H "xi-api-key: $ELEVENLABS_API_KEY" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"name":"string","default_sharing_groups":[{"group_id":"string","permission_level":"admin"}]}'

## Parameters
| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| name | body | string | Yes | Request body field name. |
| default_sharing_groups | body | object[] | No | List of groups with their permission levels to share with... |

## Response (200 OK)
{"service-account-user-id":"string"}

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POST

/v1/service-accounts

ElevenLabs API

Create Service Account

Base URL: https://api.elevenlabs.io
Auth: xi-api-key: <ELEVENLABS_API_KEY>
Last verified: 2026-09-03 · upstream hash matched

Actions

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Critical gotchas

Authentication uses the non-standard xi-api-key header, not Authorization: Bearer. Sending a Bearer token returns HTTP 401.

Text-to-speech responses are raw binary audio, not JSON. Write the body to a file (--output speech.mp3) rather than parsing it.

cURL

curl -X POST 'https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/service-accounts' \  -H "xi-api-key: $ELEVENLABS_API_KEY" \  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \  -d '{  "name": "string",  "default_sharing_groups": [    {      "group_id": "string",      "permission_level": "admin"    }  ]}'

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Parameters

Name	In	Type	Required	Description
name	body	string	Yes	Request body field name.
default_sharing_groups	body	object[]	No	List of groups with their permission levels to share with by default. Each entry should specify a group_id and a permission_level (admin, editor, or viewer).

Response 200 OK

{
  "service-account-user-id": "string"
}