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Key-Based Authentication

There are two main reasons to use key-based authentication:

  1. When calling ready-to-use models
  2. In headless remote environments or CI/CD (where GitHub authentication is not available)

Generating the keys

Navigate to our dashboard keys page and generate a key from the UI fal.ai/dashboard/keys

Scopes

Scopes provide a way to control the permissions and access level of a given key. By assigning scopes to keys, you can limit the operations that each key can perform. Currently there are only two scopes, ADMIN and API. If you are just consuming ready-to-use models, we recommend that you use the API scope.

API scope

  • Grants access to ready-to-use models.

ADMIN scope

  • Grants full access to private models.
  • Grants full access to CLI operations.
  • Grants access to ready-to-use models.