Neon CLI command: api-keys

Summary: The neon api-keys CLI command manages API keys for your account, an organization, or a single project. Use it to create a key for scripts and CI, list existing keys and when they were last used, and revoke a key you no longer trust.

Neon CLI command: api-keys

Create, list, and revoke Neon API keys

The api-keys command creates, lists, and revokes the API keys that authenticate requests to the Neon API. Keys belong to your account unless you pass --org-id or --project-id.

A key is shown once, at creation. There is no way to retrieve it later.

For key types, revocation permissions, and rotation, see Manage API keys.

Subcommands: create, list, revoke

neon api-keys list

Lists key metadata, never the keys themselves.

Bash

neon api-keys list [options]

Option	Description	Type	Default	Required
`--org-id`	List the organization's keys instead of your account's	string	—	No

List your account keys:

Bash

neon api-keys list

text

Account API keys
┌─────────┬──────────────────────┬──────────────────────┬──────────────────────┬─────────────────────┐
│ Id      │ Name                 │ Created At           │ Last Used At         │ Last Used From Addr │
├─────────┼──────────────────────┼──────────────────────┼──────────────────────┼─────────────────────┤
│ 3225782 │ ci-deploy            │ 2026-07-29T00:50:26Z │ 2026-07-29T18:06:55Z │ 192.0.2.10          │
└─────────┴──────────────────────┴──────────────────────┴──────────────────────┴─────────────────────┘

Organization keys are invisible to your account, so listing them needs --org-id:

Bash

neon api-keys list --org-id org-example-12345678

This covers both scopes, since a project-scoped key is owned by the project's organization. The Project column tells them apart:

text

API keys in org-example-12345678
┌─────────┬─────────────┬───────────────────────┬──────────────────────┬──────────────────────┬─────────────────────┐
│ Id      │ Name        │ Project               │ Created At           │ Last Used At         │ Last Used From Addr │
├─────────┼─────────────┼───────────────────────┼──────────────────────┼──────────────────────┼─────────────────────┤
│ 3243240 │ preview-bot │ green-breeze-12345678 │ 2026-08-04T18:51:36Z │ 2026-08-05T18:51:36Z │ 192.0.2.10          │
├─────────┼─────────────┼───────────────────────┼──────────────────────┼──────────────────────┼─────────────────────┤
│ 3177950 │ org-key     │ (all projects)        │ 2026-07-08T01:28:49Z │ 2026-07-08T01:31:20Z │ 192.0.2.10          │
└─────────┴─────────────┴───────────────────────┴──────────────────────┴──────────────────────┴─────────────────────┘

(all projects) is a table label only. In JSON and YAML the field is project_id, and it is null for an organization-wide key:

Bash

neon api-keys list --org-id org-example-12345678 -o json

JSON

[
  { "id": 3243240, "name": "preview-bot", "project_id": "green-breeze-12345678" },
  { "id": 3177950, "name": "org-key", "project_id": null }
]

neon api-keys create

Creates a key and prints it once. --name is required.

By default the key reaches everything your account can, in every organization. Two mutually exclusive flags change that:

--project-id limits the key to one project. Use this for anything deployed, so a leaked key cannot reach your other projects.
--org-id transfers ownership to an organization. This is not a restriction: the key reaches every project in that organization, including ones created later.

Both organization forms need organization admin permissions. Each form prints a notice describing what the key can reach.

Bash

neon api-keys create [options]

Option	Description	Type	Default	Required
`--name`	A name to identify the key later	string	—	Yes
`--org-id`	Create a key for this organization instead of your account	string	—	No
`--project-id`	Create a key that can access only this project. Its organization is looked up from the project	string	—	No

Create an account key:

Bash

neon api-keys create --name ci-deploy

text

API key
┌─────────┬───────────┐
│ Id      │ Name      │
├─────────┼───────────┤
│ 3225782 │ ci-deploy │
└─────────┴───────────┘

napi_examplekey1234567890abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
WARNING: Store this key now: it is not shown again.
WARNING: This key reaches everything your account can, in every organization. Pass --org-id or --project-id to narrow it.

Create a key owned by an organization:

Bash

neon api-keys create --name org-key --org-id org-example-12345678

text

API key
┌─────────┬─────────┐
│ Id      │ Name    │
├─────────┼─────────┤
│ 3177950 │ org-key │
└─────────┴─────────┘

napi_examplekey1234567890abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
WARNING: Store this key now: it is not shown again.
WARNING: This key reaches every project in org-example-12345678, including ones created later. Pass --project-id instead to restrict it to one.

Create a key limited to one project. The output adds a Project column:

Bash

neon api-keys create --name preview-bot --project-id green-breeze-12345678

text

API key
┌─────────┬─────────────┬───────────────────────┐
│ Id      │ Name        │ Project               │
├─────────┼─────────────┼───────────────────────┤
│ 3243240 │ preview-bot │ green-breeze-12345678 │
└─────────┴─────────────┴───────────────────────┘

napi_examplekey1234567890abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
WARNING: Store this key now: it is not shown again.
INFO: Limited to green-breeze-12345678: it cannot create projects, mint API keys, or read any other project. It can still change and delete everything inside that project.

Important: A project-scoped key is owned by the project's organization, so it needs --org-id to list or revoke.

The key is the last line of stdout, and the notices go to stderr, so you can capture it directly:

Bash

echo "NEON_API_KEY=$(neon api-keys create --name local-dev -o json | jq -r .key)" >> .env

neon api-keys revoke

Revokes a key immediately and permanently. Anything using it starts failing, so confirm the ID with api-keys list first.

Takes the numeric key ID, not the name. Organization and project-scoped keys need organization admin permissions. See who can revoke keys.

Bash

neon api-keys revoke <id> [options]

Option	Description	Type	Default	Required
`--org-id`	Revoke an organization key instead of an account key	string	—	No

Revoke an account key:

Bash

neon api-keys revoke 3225782

text

API key
┌─────────┬───────────┬─────────┬──────────────────────┐
│ Id      │ Name      │ Revoked │ Last Used At         │
├─────────┼───────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────┤
│ 3225782 │ ci-deploy │ true    │ 2026-07-29T18:06:55Z │
└─────────┴───────────┴─────────┴──────────────────────┘

Last Used At is empty for a key that was never used.

Revoke an organization or project-scoped key:

Bash

neon api-keys revoke 3243240 --org-id org-example-12345678

Without --org-id, the same command fails:

text

ERROR: No account API key with id 3243240. If it belongs to an organization, pass --org-id. Organization keys are not visible to your account.

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Neon CLI command: api-keys

neon api-keys list

neon api-keys create

neon api-keys revoke

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