Authentication and access control with Momento

You've decided to try out Momento, yeehaw! Let's talk about how you're going to make your first call and subsequently allow your app users to make calls.

We have a bunch of different ways you can interact with our services:

In your browser via the Momento Console
Long-term stored usage with API keys
Short-term and limited scope with tokens

Each one of these methods comes with their own range of use cases and varying implementations. Based on the type of application you're building, you might choose to issue a bunch of short-lived, limited scope tokens to your users. If that's the case, then check out our page on tokens. Maybe you're interested in creating a key and forgetting about it for a year. Hop over to our API keys page.

Need help deciding which one is for you? We got you 👇

Table of differences between API keys and tokens

Still confused? Stay a while and check out our detailed documentation on the next page or send us a message in Discord!