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title: "Authorization"
description: "How browser authorization and workspace API keys differ, and when each is enough."
url: https://docs.spinrun.ai/getting-started/authorization
markdown_url: https://docs.spinrun.ai/getting-started/authorization.md
---

# Authorization

The run surface accepts either a browser authorization or a workspace API key. Build accepts only the first.

A key authenticates a workspace; a Build PUT publishes as someone, and that someone has to be a person.

## Related [#related]

* [Build vs run](https://docs.spinrun.ai/getting-started/build-vs-run.md)
* [Build authorization](https://docs.spinrun.ai/build/authorization.md)