Admin key
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An admin key — sk-admin-… on OpenAI, sk-ant-admin… on Anthropic — reads organisation usage and cost and manages API keys, projects and members. It cannot make inference calls.
Its blast radius is different from an inference key's. A leaked inference key lets someone spend your money, bounded by your spend limit. A leaked admin key lets someone read all your billing data and delete every key in the organisation — an instant, total outage.
So: never store one alongside your inference keys, and never ship one to a client. How to create an OpenAI admin key · Is it safe to give an app your admin key?