# Creating API key

**URL:** <https://forum.weaviate.io/t/creating-api-key/505>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [August 8, 2023, 11:02pm UTC](https://forum.weaviate.io/t/creating-api-key/505 "2023-08-08T23:02:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Hawajka](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.weaviate.io/hawajka/32/356_2.png) [@Hawajka](https://forum.weaviate.io/u/Hawajka)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2023, 11:02pm UTC](https://forum.weaviate.io/t/creating-api-key/505/1 "2023-08-08T23:02:44Z")

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Hello!  
I’ve created a sandbox cluster via weaviate cloud services. I’ve enabled authentication and an admin API key got created automatically. I would like to now add a read-only api key. What is the quickest and easiest way to do this? I do not use any docker configuration files nor docker currently and if possible would like to avoid it for now!

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**Author:** ![zainhas](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.weaviate.io/zainhas/32/17_2.png) [@zainhas](https://forum.weaviate.io/u/zainhas)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2023, 11:33pm UTC](https://forum.weaviate.io/t/creating-api-key/505/2 "2023-08-08T23:33:37Z")

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Hi @Hawajka 👋,

Currently only paid accounts have access to read-only API keys and the ability to add more keys if needed, free sandbox accounts only have one admin key that should be visible in the WCS console.