---
title: "API tokens - Deplo"
description: "A token is a principal with its own capabilities, its own scope tree of teams, projects, folders or apps, and an expiry that defaults to ninety days. Start from a template or from scratch, and edit what it can do without reissuing it."
url: "https://web-isometric-9487cf1e.deplo.site/features/api-tokens"
image: "https://web-isometric-9487cf1e.deplo.site/api/media/file/api-tokens.webp"
updated: "2026-09-06"
---

# API tokens

A token is a principal with its own capabilities, its own scope tree of teams, projects, folders or apps, and an expiry that defaults to ninety days. Start from a template or from scratch, and edit what it can do without reissuing it.

![API tokens](https://web-isometric-9487cf1e.deplo.site/api/media/file/api-tokens.webp)

## The lever is the member

Its effective power is the live intersection of what it was granted and what its owner can still do. Take a capability from someone and every token they own is blunted at once, in that team. Nobody hunts for a forgotten credential.

[Learn more](https://web-isometric-9487cf1e.deplo.site/docs/advanced/api-tokens-and-oauth#create-one)

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