Amplitude · Authentication Profile

Amplitude Authentication

Authentication

Amplitude secures its APIs with apiKey and http across 3 declared security schemes, as derived from its OpenAPI definitions.

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Methods: apiKey, http Schemes: 3 OAuth flows: API key in: header

Security Schemes

basicAuth http
scheme: basic
apiKeyAuth apiKey
· in: header (Authorization)
bearerAuth http
scheme: bearer

Source

Authentication Profile

Raw ↑ 
generated: '2026-07-11'
method: derived
source: openapi/amplitude-behavioral-cohorts-api-openapi.yml, openapi/amplitude-chart-annotations-api-openapi.yml,
  openapi/amplitude-dashboard-rest-api-openapi.yml, openapi/amplitude-dsar-api-openapi.yml,
  openapi/amplitude-experiment-evaluation-api-openapi.yml, openapi/amplitude-experiment-management-api-openapi.yml,
  openapi/amplitude-export-api-openapi.yml, openapi/amplitude-scim-api-openapi.yml, openapi/amplitude-taxonomy-api-openapi.yml,
  openapi/amplitude-user-mapping-api-openapi.yml, openapi/amplitude-user-profile-api-openapi.yml
summary:
  types:
  - apiKey
  - http
  api_key_in:
  - header
schemes:
- name: basicAuth
  type: http
  scheme: basic
  description: Use your Amplitude API key as the username and your secret key as the password.
    Encode them as base64 in the format api_key:secret_key.
  sources:
  - openapi/amplitude-behavioral-cohorts-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/amplitude-chart-annotations-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/amplitude-dashboard-rest-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/amplitude-dsar-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/amplitude-export-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/amplitude-taxonomy-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/amplitude-user-mapping-api-openapi.yml
- name: apiKeyAuth
  type: apiKey
  in: header
  parameter: Authorization
  description: Pass your deployment key in the Authorization header with the prefix Api-Key,
    for example Api-Key YOUR_DEPLOYMENT_KEY.
  sources:
  - openapi/amplitude-experiment-evaluation-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/amplitude-user-profile-api-openapi.yml
- name: bearerAuth
  type: http
  scheme: bearer
  description: Use a Management API key generated in the Experiment sidebar of the Amplitude
    UI. Pass it in the Authorization header as Bearer [example key]
  sources:
  - openapi/amplitude-experiment-management-api-openapi.yml
  - openapi/amplitude-scim-api-openapi.yml

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