BerriAI/litellm · error · HTTPException

Relocating a team to a different organization requires PROXY

Error message

Relocating a team to a different organization requires PROXY_ADMIN or org-admin of the destination org.

What it means

Error "Relocating a team to a different organization requires PROXY_ADMIN or org-admin of the destination org." thrown in BerriAI/litellm.

Source

Thrown at litellm/proxy/management_endpoints/team_endpoints.py:2058

            current_org_id: Final = getattr(existing_team_row, "organization_id", None)
            if (
                data.organization_id != current_org_id
                and user_api_key_dict.user_role != LitellmUserRoles.PROXY_ADMIN.value
            ):
                # Is the caller org_admin of the destination org?
                caller_memberships: Final = (
                    await _org_membership_db(prisma_client).find_many(
                        where={
                            "user_id": user_api_key_dict.user_id,
                            "organization_id": data.organization_id,
                            "user_role": LitellmUserRoles.ORG_ADMIN.value,
                        }
                    )
                    if user_api_key_dict.user_id
                    else []
                )
                if not caller_memberships:
                    raise HTTPException(
                        status_code=403,
                        detail={
                            "error": (
                                "Relocating a team to a different organization "
                                "requires PROXY_ADMIN or org-admin of the "
                                "destination org."
                            )
                        },
                    )

            await fetch_and_validate_organization(
                organization_id=data.organization_id,
                existing_team_row=existing_team_row,
                llm_router=llm_router,
                prisma_client=prisma_client,
                user_api_key_dict=user_api_key_dict,
            )
        elif data.organization_id is not None and len(data.organization_id) == 0:

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Solutions

1. Retry with a PROXY_ADMIN key, or with a key that is org-admin of the destination organization.

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at litellm/proxy/management_endpoints/team_endpoints.py:2058 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

AI-assisted analysis of BerriAI/litellm@77b7c6c40c (2026-08-18). Data as JSON: /api/errors/af99e584f0e1d30f. Report an issue: GitHub.