---
title: "Create an AI Labs organization"
description: "Create an AI Labs organization in TIR for a class or a team, choose an hourly or committed plan, and fix the messages that stop it."
content_type: "how-to"
product: "ai-labs"
platform: "TIR"
url: "/tir/ai-labs/how-to/create-an-organization/"
topic: ["organizations"]
---

# Create an AI Labs organization

Create an organization to give a class or a team its own AI Labs workspace, with its own members, courses,
and GPUs.

## Before you begin

Make sure that you:

- Are an Admin. Admins create and configure organizations.
- Are signed in to TIR in Delhi, where AI Labs runs.
- On a prepaid account, have enough infra credits for the plan. See
  [Billing and Usage](/tir/tir-billing/).

## Choose a plan

The plan sets how many GPU servers the organization gets and how it is billed.

- **Hourly** suits a course with breaks or a trial. You are billed for the hours the organization runs,
  and you can stop it when nobody needs it. Choose it first if you are trying AI Labs out.
- **Committed** suits a long course of fixed length, at a discounted price. A committed organization runs
  until its period ends.

You can convert an hourly organization to a committed plan later. See
[Convert an organization to a committed plan](/tir/ai-labs/how-to/manage-ai-labs-as-an-admin/#convert-an-organization-to-a-committed-plan).

## Create the organization

1. In the **AI LABS** group of the TIR side menu, select **AI Labs**. The AI Labs portal opens.
2. Select **Create Organization**.
3. Enter an **Organization Name**. It can have up to 50 characters: letters, digits, spaces, underscores,
   and hyphens, starting and ending with a letter or a digit. Each organization needs a name of its own.
4. Enter a **Description** of up to 2,000 characters.
5. Choose the **Plan Type** and the plan.
6. Select **Create**.

The organization opens on its home page, where you manage courses and members, watch resource use, and open
the organization's settings. It already has a group named **Default**, which gives learners every AI Labs
service and the plans with 5 GB of GPU memory, one instance per plan.

## If the organization is not created

- **Insufficient Credits! Please buy additional ... credits to launch AI Labs** means your balance is below
  what the plan needs to launch; see
  [Why can I not launch a resource on a prepaid account?](/tir/tir-billing/faq/#why-can-i-not-launch-a-resource-on-a-prepaid-account).
  [Buy credits](/tir/tir-billing/how-to/pay-now/) and try again.
- **Inventory temporarily unavailable. Please try again after some time.** means every GPU server for the
  plan is in use. Try again later, or choose another plan.
- **Organization with the same name already exists in the Project.** means the name is taken. Choose
  another.

For other messages, see [Troubleshooting AI Labs](/tir/ai-labs/troubleshooting/ai-labs/).

## What to do next

Decide what each learner can launch with
[groups](/tir/ai-labs/how-to/manage-groups-and-members/#create-a-group), invite your
[Professors and learners](/tir/ai-labs/how-to/manage-groups-and-members/#add-a-member), then
[create a course](/tir/ai-labs/how-to/create-a-course/) for them to work in.