Authentication

Inference requests authenticate with an Orbit API key. Dashboard pages (catalogue, billing, keys) use your signed-in session instead.

Create a key

Sign in at tryorbit.cloud.
Open API Keys.
Create a key with a name and an expiration (never, 30d, 90d, or 1y).
Copy the secret. It starts with sk-orbit- and is shown once.

Orbit stores a hash and a short preview. If you lose the secret, revoke the key and create a new one.

Treat the secret like a password. Create a separate key per project or environment, and revoke a key immediately if it leaks.

Send the key

Orbit accepts either header the official SDKs already send.

Client	Header
OpenAI SDK, curl, native Orbit API	`Authorization: Bearer sk-orbit-...`
Anthropic SDK	`x-api-key: sk-orbit-...`

export ORBIT_API_KEY="sk-orbit-..."

curl https://api.tryorbit.cloud/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ORBIT_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"claude-sonnet-5","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hi"}]}'

What a key is scoped to

Each key belongs to one organization. Usage, credit holds, and invoices land on that org. The same key reaches every active model in the catalogue. You do not need a per-vendor key.

Revoke a key

From API Keys, delete the key. Requests that still use it return 401 with invalid api key.

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Authentication

Create a key

Send the key

What a key is scoped to

Revoke a key

​Create a key

​Send the key

​What a key is scoped to

​Revoke a key

Create a key

Send the key

What a key is scoped to

Revoke a key