# Authorization ### **Authentication System** The platform employs bearer token security to control API access and verify user permissions. This authentication standard applies to both inference endpoints and compute deployment services, creating a unified access control system. By implementing token-based authentication, the platform eliminates the need for session management and maintains stateless API interactions. ### **Getting Your Access Token** Before making API calls to inference or compute services, you must first acquire an authentication token. These tokens act as secure credentials that validate your identity when accessing platform resources. ### **Token Creation Process** 1. Navigate to **Management -> Create a new API Key** 2. Select the **Create API key** option 3. The generated key functions as your authentication token for all inference and compute API endpoints ### **Implementing Token Authentication** Include your authentication token in the `Authorization` header for every API request to inference and compute services. This token validates your access rights for each endpoint call. #### **Important Security Guidelines** * Protect your token from unauthorized access and avoid embedding it in frontend applications * Generate a replacement token immediately if you believe your current token may be exposed --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.arkanecloud.com/arkane-cloud/inference/authorization.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.