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Count Users in an Okta Group

The Okta List all groups API includes an optional expand parameter. This parameter returns the number of users in an Okta group when set to stats.

This Okta-Custom API Action card returns all the groups. Each group result includes the number of users in that group with the expand parameter.

API response includes the number of users in each group:

It is also possible to get the user count in just group when you add the group ID to the endpoint:

API response with the usersCount in the embed object:

{
    "id": "00g2emd7ymboJdfzc0h8",
    "created": "2025-05-27T16:32:39.000Z",
    "lastUpdated": "2025-10-29T19:47:34.000Z",
    "lastMembershipUpdated": "2025-07-16T20:15:00.000Z",
    "objectClass": [
        "okta:user_group"
    ],
    "type": "OKTA_GROUP",
    "profile": {
        "name": "Automation Learners",
        "description": "Folks who love to learn about automation."
    },
    "_embedded": {
        "stats": {
            "usersCount": 4,
            "appsCount": 1,
            "groupPushMappingsCount": 0,
            "hasAdminPrivilege": false,
            "_links": {}
        }
    }
}

This Okta Workflows tip is based on API to Return the Number of Users in a Group KB article.

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