---
title: "Create policy version"
url: https://hexelstudio.com/docs/api/ciam-iam/policies/create-policy-version
---

# Create policy version

**POST** `/policies/{policy_id}/versions`

Create a new version of a policy

## Path parameters

- `policy_id: string`

  Policy ID

## Headers

- `Authorization: string`

  `Bearer <token>`.

## Body parameters

- `created_at: optional string`

- `created_by_user_id: optional string`

- `id: optional string`

- `is_default: optional boolean`

- `policy_document: optional array of integer`

- `policy_id: optional string`

- `version_number: optional integer`

## Returns

`201` Created (`PolicyVersion`)

- `created_at: optional string`

- `created_by_user_id: optional string`

- `id: optional string`

- `is_default: optional boolean`

- `policy_document: optional array of integer`

- `policy_id: optional string`

- `version_number: optional integer`

## Errors

- `400` Bad Request
- `500` Internal Server Error

## Example

```bash
curl --request POST \
  --url 'https://api.hexelstudio.com/v1/policies/{policy_id}/versions' \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $ACCESS_TOKEN" \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '{
  "created_at": "2026-01-01T00:00:00Z",
  "created_by_user_id": "string",
  "id": "string",
  "is_default": true,
  "policy_document": [
    0
  ],
  "policy_id": "string",
  "version_number": 0
}'
```

### Response (201)

```json
{
  "created_at": "2026-01-01T00:00:00Z",
  "created_by_user_id": "string",
  "id": "string",
  "is_default": true,
  "policy_document": [
    0
  ],
  "policy_id": "string",
  "version_number": 0
}
```

### Response (400)

```json
{
  "key": "string"
}
```

### Response (500)

```json
{
  "key": "string"
}
```