---
title: Overview
url: https://docs.kaltura.com/docs/getting-started/general/credentials-overview
---

## Kaltura API Credentials — Setup Guide

How to obtain and configure the credentials needed for all Kaltura API integrations.

**Applies to:** All Kaltura API services and embeddable components  
**Time to complete:** ~5 minutes (existing account) or ~15 minutes (new account)  
**Output:** A populated `.env` file ready for any guide in this project


## When to Use

- **First-time developers** setting up their Kaltura API environment from scratch.
- **Development teams** onboarding new engineers to an existing Kaltura integration.
- **AI agents** that need to programmatically validate credentials before making API calls.


## Get a Kaltura Account

Sign up for a Kaltura account at:

```
https://corp.kaltura.com/pricing/
```

Upon account creation, you receive:

| Credential | Description |
|-----------|-------------|
| Partner ID | Numeric account identifier |
| Admin Secret | Master API key for generating sessions |

Enterprise users with existing accounts: contact your Kaltura administrator for access.

Credentials are permanent per account. The Admin Secret is the single key used for all session generation — KS type (0 or 2) determines whether the resulting session has user-level or admin-level privileges.