aid: unkey-dev
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/unkey-dev/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Unkey
kind: company
description: Unkey is an open-source developer platform for modern APIs, providing
  globally distributed API key management, authentication, and rate limiting. The
  platform lets API providers issue, verify, update, reroll, and revoke keys with
  metadata, expiration, usage credits, permissions, and roles, plus standalone rate
  limiting, identities, RBAC, and key-verification analytics. Unkey exposes an
  RPC-style REST API (all POST) with a stable v2 at api.unkey.com and a legacy v1 at
  api.unkey.dev, authenticated with Bearer root keys.
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
- API Keys
- Rate Limiting
- Authentication
- Access Control
- Identity
- RBAC
- Analytics
- Open Source
created: '2026-07-02'
modified: '2026-07-02'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: unkey-dev:unkey-dev-keys-api
  name: Unkey Keys API
  tags:
  - API Keys
  - Verification
  - Lifecycle
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://www.unkey.com/docs/api-reference/keys/create
  baseURL: https://api.unkey.com
  properties:
  - url: https://www.unkey.com/docs/api-reference/overview
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://www.unkey.com/docs/api-reference/keys/create
    type: APIReference
  - url: openapi/unkey-dev-openapi.yml
    type: OpenAPI
  - url: collections/unkey-dev.postman_collection.json
    type: PostmanCollection
  - url: collections/unkey-dev.opencollection.json
    type: OpenCollection
  description: Full API key lifecycle - create, verify, get, update, delete, reroll,
    updateCredits, and whoami. Keys carry metadata, expiration, usage credits,
    external identity links, permissions, and roles. keys.verifyKey is the hot-path
    endpoint API providers call to authenticate and authorize each request.
- aid: unkey-dev:unkey-dev-apis-api
  name: Unkey APIs (Namespaces) API
  tags:
  - Namespaces
  - API Management
  - Keyspaces
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://www.unkey.com/docs/api-reference/apis/create
  baseURL: https://api.unkey.com
  properties:
  - url: https://www.unkey.com/docs/api-reference/apis/create
    type: APIReference
  - url: openapi/unkey-dev-openapi.yml
    type: OpenAPI
  - url: collections/unkey-dev.postman_collection.json
    type: PostmanCollection
  - url: collections/unkey-dev.opencollection.json
    type: OpenCollection
  description: Manage APIs - the namespaces (keyspaces) that group and isolate keys.
    Create, get, and delete an API, and list all keys belonging to it. Each API is
    the container against which keys are issued and verified.
- aid: unkey-dev:unkey-dev-ratelimit-api
  name: Unkey Ratelimit API
  tags:
  - Rate Limiting
  - Overrides
  - Namespaces
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://www.unkey.com/docs/api-reference/ratelimits/limit
  baseURL: https://api.unkey.com
  properties:
  - url: https://www.unkey.com/docs/api-reference/ratelimits/limit
    type: APIReference
  - url: openapi/unkey-dev-openapi.yml
    type: OpenAPI
  - url: collections/unkey-dev.postman_collection.json
    type: PostmanCollection
  - url: collections/unkey-dev.opencollection.json
    type: OpenCollection
  description: Standalone, key-independent rate limiting. Check or enforce a limit
    for any identifier (ratelimit.limit), evaluate several limits at once
    (multiLimit), and manage per-identifier overrides within a namespace (set, get,
    list, delete override).
- aid: unkey-dev:unkey-dev-identities-api
  name: Unkey Identities API
  tags:
  - Identities
  - Tenants
  - Users
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://www.unkey.com/docs/api-reference/identities/create-identity
  baseURL: https://api.unkey.com
  properties:
  - url: https://www.unkey.com/docs/api-reference/identities/create-identity
    type: APIReference
  - url: openapi/unkey-dev-openapi.yml
    type: OpenAPI
  - url: collections/unkey-dev.postman_collection.json
    type: PostmanCollection
  - url: collections/unkey-dev.opencollection.json
    type: OpenCollection
  description: Model your users, tenants, or organizations as identities and attach
    multiple keys and shared rate limits to each via an externalId. Create, get,
    list, update, and delete identities so limits and metadata follow the entity
    rather than a single key.
- aid: unkey-dev:unkey-dev-permissions-api
  name: Unkey Permissions and Roles API
  tags:
  - RBAC
  - Permissions
  - Roles
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://www.unkey.com/docs/api-reference/permissions/create-permission
  baseURL: https://api.unkey.com
  properties:
  - url: https://www.unkey.com/docs/api-reference/permissions/create-permission
    type: APIReference
  - url: openapi/unkey-dev-openapi.yml
    type: OpenAPI
  - url: collections/unkey-dev.postman_collection.json
    type: PostmanCollection
  - url: collections/unkey-dev.opencollection.json
    type: OpenCollection
  description: Role-based access control. Define permissions and roles and manage
    their lifecycle (create, get, list, delete), then attach or detach them on keys
    with the keys.addPermissions / setPermissions / addRoles / setRoles family so
    verifyKey can enforce fine-grained authorization.
- aid: unkey-dev:unkey-dev-analytics-api
  name: Unkey Analytics API
  tags:
  - Analytics
  - Verifications
  - Usage
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://www.unkey.com/docs/api-reference/analytics/get-verifications
  baseURL: https://api.unkey.com
  properties:
  - url: https://www.unkey.com/docs/api-reference/analytics/get-verifications
    type: APIReference
  - url: openapi/unkey-dev-openapi.yml
    type: OpenAPI
  - url: collections/unkey-dev.postman_collection.json
    type: PostmanCollection
  - url: collections/unkey-dev.opencollection.json
    type: OpenCollection
  description: Query key-verification analytics (analytics.getVerifications) to
    understand usage over time, by key, identity, or outcome. Powers usage
    dashboards, billing, and abuse detection built on top of Unkey verifications.
- aid: unkey-dev:unkey-dev-migrations-api
  name: Unkey Key Migrations API
  tags:
  - Migration
  - Import
  - Bulk
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://www.unkey.com/docs/api-reference/keys/create
  baseURL: https://api.unkey.com
  properties:
  - url: https://www.unkey.com/docs/api-reference/keys/create
    type: APIReference
  - url: openapi/unkey-dev-openapi.yml
    type: OpenAPI
  - url: collections/unkey-dev.postman_collection.json
    type: PostmanCollection
  - url: collections/unkey-dev.opencollection.json
    type: OpenCollection
  description: Bulk-import existing keys from another system into an Unkey namespace
    via keys.migrateKeys, letting providers move onto Unkey without forcing every
    customer to rotate their key.
- aid: unkey-dev:unkey-dev-deploy-api
  name: Unkey Deploy API
  tags:
  - Deployments
  - Platform
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://www.unkey.com/docs/api-reference/overview
  baseURL: https://api.unkey.com
  properties:
  - url: https://www.unkey.com/docs/api-reference/overview
    type: APIReference
  - url: openapi/unkey-dev-openapi.yml
    type: OpenAPI
  - url: collections/unkey-dev.postman_collection.json
    type: PostmanCollection
  - url: collections/unkey-dev.opencollection.json
    type: OpenCollection
  description: Deployment operations (deploy.createDeployment, deploy.getDeployment)
    from Unkey's newer "ship APIs, not infrastructure" deploy platform, exposed in
    the v2 API alongside the key-management surface.
- aid: unkey-dev:unkey-dev-liveness-api
  name: Unkey Liveness API
  tags:
  - Health
  - Monitoring
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://www.unkey.com/docs/api-reference/overview
  baseURL: https://api.unkey.com
  properties:
  - url: https://www.unkey.com/docs/api-reference/overview
    type: APIReference
  - url: openapi/unkey-dev-openapi.yml
    type: OpenAPI
  - url: collections/unkey-dev.postman_collection.json
    type: PostmanCollection
  - url: collections/unkey-dev.opencollection.json
    type: OpenCollection
  description: Simple health-check endpoint (liveness) for verifying API
    availability from monitors and load balancers.
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/unkey-dev-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/unkey-dev-authentication.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/unkeyed
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/unkeyed
- type: Website
  url: https://www.unkey.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.unkey.com/docs
- type: Plans
  url: plans/unkey-dev-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/unkey-dev-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/unkey-dev-finops.yml
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.unkey.com/blog
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com