Where to find your Pipedrive API key

The exact clicks to your Pipedrive API key, the permission that can hide it, and what the token reaches once you copy it.

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  • PipedriveAPI tokenPersonal API token ยท Every Pipedrive plan includes an API token
    Where to click
    Your account name (top right) > Company settings > Personal preferences > API > copy your personal API token
    Scopes or permissions
    No scopes to pick: the token gives access to your account. Your permission set needs Access their own API token, which is on by default. If the API tab is missing, an admin turns it on under Settings > Manage users > Permission sets > Global regular user > Tools and setup.

    Source: support.pipedrive.com (opens in a new tab), pipedrive.readme.io: how to find the api token (opens in a new tab), support.pipedrive.com: can all users access the pipedrive api (opens in a new tab), pipedrive.com: crm api (opens in a new tab)

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Updated Nov 11, 2026

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Your Pipedrive API key is called a personal API token inside Pipedrive. Click your account name in the top right, then Company settings, Personal preferences and the API tab, and copy it. It has no scopes to pick: it reaches everything your own user can see in that company account.

The steps above come from Pipedrive's guide on how to find the API token and its support article, with the day we last checked them.

If the API tab is missing

That is a permission, not a plan. Pipedrive puts the token behind a permission called Access their own API token, which is on by default, and an admin can turn it off for a whole permission set.

To turn it back on, an admin opens Settings, then Manage users, then Permission sets, picks your set and switches the permission on under Tools and setup. Then reload Personal preferences.

If you belong to more than one Pipedrive company, each one gives you a different token. Open the company you mean to connect before you copy it.

Limit what the token can reach

With no scopes, the token is its user. A token from a sales manager who sees every deal gives the integration every deal too.

To narrow it, create a dedicated Pipedrive user whose visibility covers only the records the integration needs, and make the token there. Treat that user as the real permission setting, and the token itself like a password.

What to do next

If the token is for a sync, read Pipedrive's daily token budget and burst limits next. Every call the integration makes spends from one budget the whole company shares.

In Oneprofile, Pipedrive connects with this token. Paste it when you add the connection, and Oneprofile sees what the token's user sees. From there, import people, organizations, deals or leads into a table and keep them current.

Pipedrive API key: questions

Is a Pipedrive API key the same as an API token?

Yes. Pipedrive's pages use both names for one thing: the personal API token tied to your user in one company account. There is no separate key to create.

Do I need a paid Pipedrive plan to get an API token?

No. Pipedrive says every plan comes with an API token and access to its REST API. When the token is missing, the cause is a permission set, not the plan.

Can I have more than one Pipedrive API token?

No. Pipedrive allows one active API token at a time, and a new one replaces the old. Update every script and tool that used the old token before you make a new one.

About this article

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Utku Zihnioglu

CEO & co-founder

Serial entrepreneur who built infrastructure companies handling billions of requests. Now leads engineering at Oneprofile, which finds the people worth talking to, researches each one, and follows up until they reply.

Drafted with AI from our product docs and code. Utku Zihnioglu answers for what it says.

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Connect Pipedrive with your API key

Paste the token into Oneprofile and import your people, organizations, deals and leads.

Free plan: 200 credits a month, 3 integrations, no card