Aug 26, 2026: Organization user types (General availability)¶

With this release, you can specify whether an organization user represents a person or a service. Set the TYPE property to SERVICE for a service or application that interacts with Snowflake without human interaction. If you don’t specify a type, the organization user is a PERSON user, which matches the previous behavior.

The type of an organization user determines the following:

• The type of the user objects that Snowflake creates when an account administrator imports an organization user group. Importing a group that contains a SERVICE organization user creates a SERVICE user in the regular account.
• The existing users that the organization user is eligible to link to. The SYSTEM$LINK_ORGANIZATION_USER function now requires the type of the local user to be compatible with the type of the organization user.

PERSON and SERVICE are the only types available to an organization user, and you can’t change the type after you create the organization user.

For more information, see the following topics:

• Organization user types
• Types of users
• CREATE ORGANIZATION USER
• SYSTEM$LINK_ORGANIZATION_USER