Quick start · about 5 minutes
From sign-up to your first screening
Step 1 of 4
Get your sandbox key
Create a free account, then open the Developer Portal and create a sandbox key. No credit card, no sales call.
You get two kinds of key. Start with sandbox; switch to production when you go live.
Sandbox key
cg_sk_…
Free, rate limited, mock data. Use it to build and test.
Production key
cg_pk_…
Live data, billed per successful call. Use it when you go live.
# Store your key as an environment variable
export CG_API_KEY="cg_sk_..."Keep keys server-side. We store only a hash of each key, so copy it when you create it; you can always create a new one.