Summary: The Neon CLI api command sends an authenticated request to any Neon API route and prints the response. Pass a path like /projects, set the method with --method, build a body from --field or --data, and add query parameters and headers. Run neon api --list to browse every endpoint.

Call any Neon API route directly as an authenticated passthrough

The api command sends an authenticated request to any Neon API route and prints the response. Pass an API path as the first argument. The method defaults to GET, or POST when you supply a body.

By default the request uses your neon login credentials. To use a specific key, pass --api-key or set NEON_API_KEY. The key's permissions determine what the request can do.

Note: api is a raw passthrough: it does not read your context file or auto-fill parameters. Pass what each route needs explicitly. For example, neon api /projects returns ERROR: org_id is required unless you add -Q org_id=<org_id> or authenticate with an organization API key. Get your organization ID from neon orgs list.

neon api <path> [options]

Pass required parameters with --query (-Q); add --include (-i) to print the status and headers before the body:

neon api /projects -Q org_id=org-cool-darkness-12345678 -i

The response is the route's raw JSON. For the fields each route returns, see the Neon API Reference.

Set body fields with --field (-F) as key=value. Values are typed automatically (numbers, booleans, null, and JSON), and dot-notation nests objects. A body switches the default method to POST:

neon api /projects/{project_id}/branches -F branch.name=dev

This sends { "branch": { "name": "dev" } }. Use --raw-field (-f) to keep a value as a literal string. For a full JSON body, use --data (-d) with a string, @file, or - (stdin).

POST /projects takes a project object. To create it under an organization, set project.org_id in the body (unlike GET /projects, which takes org_id as a query parameter):

neon api /projects -X POST -F project.name=my-project -F project.org_id=org-cool-darkness-12345678

For a larger body, put the JSON in a file and pass it with -d @<file>:

{
  "project": {
    "name": "my-project",
    "org_id": "org-cool-darkness-12345678"
  }
}

neon api /projects -X POST -d @project.json

--list prints every route from the Neon OpenAPI spec; --refresh refetches the cached spec:

neon api --list

Responses print as JSON. Use the global --output yaml (-o yaml) for YAML:

neon api /projects -Q org_id=org-cool-darkness-12345678 -o yaml

• orgs
• ip-allow
• vpc

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