Cursor API Key

Description

General

• Documentation: https://docs.cursor.com/en/account/teams/admin-api
• Summary: There are 2 types of Cursor API Keys: Cursor User API Key and Cursor Admin API Key.

The Cursor User API Key provides access to the headless Cursor Agent CLI and the Background Agent API. This API allows to programmatically create and manage background agents that work on the user's repositories. https://docs.cursor.com/en/background-agent/api/overview Note: Free Plan API Keys do not allow Background Agent API usage (only headless CLI).

The Cursor Admin API allows to: Access team metrics, usage data, and spending information via API The Admin API lets Cursor Team Admins programmatically access their team’s data, including member information, usage metrics, and spending details. Build custom dashboards, monitoring tools, or integrate with existing workflows. https://docs.cursor.com/en/account/teams/admin-api

Revoke the secret

User API Key can be removed from the Cursor Integrations Dashboard

Details for Cursor API Key

• Family: token

• Category: ai

• Company: Cursor

• High recall: False

• Validity check available: True

• Analyzer available: False

• On-premise instances exist: False

• Only valid secrets raise an alert: False

• Minimum number of matches: 1

• Occurrences found for one million commits: 0.03

• Prefixed: False