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Pat vs. API Key

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Post by iamonthesnow » Thu, Mar 06, 2025, 3:18 PM UTC

As a developer, do you prefer Personal Access Tokens or API Keys when working with REST APIs? Looking for pros and cons of both. Thanks!

Re: Pat vs. API Key

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Mar 06, 2025, 3:19 PM UTC

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Post by stop50 » Thu, Mar 06, 2025, 4:19 PM UTC

PAT are tied to users, api keys to an team or organization.

Post by stop50 » Thu, Mar 06, 2025, 4:32 PM UTC

stop50 wrote: post #3

PAT are tied to users, api keys to an team or organization.

Pats are good for apps tied to users: cli, gui clients, ...

Api keys and similar are better for services that are long running and should not go down: websites, backends that require access to other services.