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API keys
A key is how your code signs in as you. Make one for each place it runs, so revoking the one on a decommissioned server does not break the notebook.
Sign in to make a key.
Keys belong to a full account — an anonymous session lives in one browser, and a key would outlive it. A free account comes with credits the API can spend straight away.
A few things worth knowing:
- Keys start with
cor_sk_. Secret scanners recognise the prefix, so a key committed to a public repository is usually reported before anyone uses it. - An account can hold 10 active keys.
- A key opens the API and nothing else: it cannot read your threads in the app, change billing or make more keys. Those need the browser session.
- Everything a key starts is billed to this account. See credits and limits.