diff --git a/src/jsonapi_client/resourceobject.py b/src/jsonapi_client/resourceobject.py
index 9cc5ee7..957f340 100644
--- a/src/jsonapi_client/resourceobject.py
+++ b/src/jsonapi_client/resourceobject.py
@@ -529,7 +529,7 @@ def _post_commit(self, status, result, location):
         # is received for PATCH, for example).
         self.mark_clean()
 
-        if status == HttpStatus.ACCEPTED_202:
+        if status == HttpStatus.CREATED_201:
             return self.session.read(result, location, no_cache=True).resource
 
     async def _commit_async(self, url: str= '', meta=None) -> None: