Create an Alchemy API Key

👋 New to Alchemy? Start for free by creating an Alchemy account, then follow this guide to get your API Key!

To use Alchemy’s products, you need an API key to authenticate your requests.

With every app you create you get an API key on the dashboard. When you first signup for Alchemy, an app with an API key are created for you:

You can immediately start making requests with that API key!

If you need to create a new app for a new API key, here are the steps to do so:

Navigate to Team Overview

First, navigate to your Team Overview by clicking on your team name.

Navigate to Apps Tab

Click on the “Apps” tab and then the “Create new app” button.

Fill in App Details

Fill in the details for your new app, this includes specifying a name and description (optional) for it. Then click the “Next” button.

Choose Chains

Next, you can choose a chain or multiple chains to be supported on your app.

Select Services

As the last step, you can select what services to activate on your application. You can come back and change these any time! Then select “Create App”:

Get Your API Key

Once your app is created, you will be redirected to the app details page, here you will see your API key in the top right corner:

View Networks and URLs

The API Key will be enabled on the chains you selected in the previous steps, switch to the “Endpoints” tab to toggle certain chains and view the request URLs (which contain your generated API key!).

🔑 Next Steps

Now that you have your API Key, follow along to making your first Alchemy request.