API Key Authentication
Simple key-based authentication for server-to-server calls.
Authentication via an issued API key or secret passed in a header or query parameter. The lowest-friction path to a first successful call, and still the default for most machine-to-machine integrations.
78 API providers on the APIs.io network offer api key authentication. The highest-rated are OpenAI, Iterable, UserGems, Healthie, Inworld AI.
Providers
Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.
Exemplar 5 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 24 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 32 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 14 Limited public surface area
Emerging 3 Early or largely undocumented
What Providers Actually Declared
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