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Claude subscription or API key: what the terms actually say

The secondary sources disagree with the primary one. The difference matters if you are choosing how to pay for model access.

Supesonic · 05.09.2026 · Developer Library

For live models and prices, use the pricing page and marketplace. Dated examples in the Developer Library are planning aids, not quotes.

The secondary sources disagree with the primary one. The difference matters if you are choosing how to pay for model access.

Subscription vs API key

A consumer subscription and a developer API key are different products with different terms. Third-party tools that ask you to paste a subscription session are not the same as pointing an SDK at an OpenAI-compatible base URL with a scoped key. Read the provider's own terms before you trust a blog that summarizes them.

Supesonic issues its own API keys. You do not paste a consumer subscription into the console. Create a key in API keys.