Get your key
Every client below needs one key, created once in the YOUR API KEYS panel of your account.
- Sign in to the Ledge (if you do not have an account yet, create a free account first), then press K or click the key icon in the bottom bar (bottom-right), or open Settings and choose API keys. Signed in already? Open YOUR API KEYS.
- Under YOUR API KEYS choose + Create key.
- The key is shown once — copy it now into your client's own configuration file (never into a chat); the steps for each client below show exactly where.
- Come back to this page for your client's steps.
The key lives in your client's config — never in a chat. An assistant that asks for it is misconfigured. Treat it like a password: if it leaks, delete it under YOUR API KEYS and create another. Hosted transport reads X-API-Key; Authorization: Bearer is not supported.
A trial key (ol_trial_...) works the same way.