---
title: "API keys"
description: "Create account-wide keys for calling models."
---

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# API keys

[API keys](https://noket.dev/api-keys) are the credentials your applications use to call models. A key
belongs to your account and can call every model your account can call — the ones you created and the
ones shared with you. There is no per-key model scoping, and keys do not carry their own limits.

## Create a key

1. Open [API keys](https://noket.dev/api-keys) and choose **Create key**.
2. Give it a name that says where it is used, for example `prod-backend` or `laptop`.
3. Copy the value from the dialog that follows.

The full value is shown once. After you close the dialog, only a masked fragment remains, and the full
value cannot be retrieved again.

## Using a key

Send it as a bearer token for OpenAI-protocol models:

```bash
curl https://api.noket.dev/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model": "your-username/your-slug", "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]}'
```

For an Anthropic-protocol model, send the same key in `x-api-key` to `/v1/messages`.

Keep keys out of source control and shell history. Read them from your environment or a secret manager
in the application that uses them.

## Managing keys

The table lists each key's name, a masked value, when it was created, and when it was last used. You
can search by name, rename a key, and delete it.

- Keys do not expire; they work until you delete them.
- Deleting a key is permanent. Requests already in flight can finish within their budget, but new
  requests with that key fail.
- Deleting a key does not remove the models it could call, and it does not affect other keys in the
  account.

## Access changes

When your account loses access to a model — an invitation expires, the owner revokes it, or the owner
pauses the model — every key in your account loses that model at once. Other models keep working.

## Next

- [Usage](https://docs.noket.dev/console/usage/)
- [Logs](https://docs.noket.dev/console/logs/)

Source: https://docs.noket.dev/console/api-keys/index.mdx