Admin API key is not working

Bug Reports
1

Describe the Bug

Can’t use Cursor Admin API.
Already have admin permissions on our team.
Keep getting this response on any request from this page Cursor – Admin API

{“statusCode”:401,“error”:“Unauthorized”,“message”:“Invalid API key”}

Steps to Reproduce

curl -X GET https://api.cursor.com/teams/members
-u YOUR_API_KEY:{MY_CURSOR_ADMIN_API}

Expected Behavior

suppose to get an actual response from api with data from our account

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

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Operating System

MacOS

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 1.1.6
VSCode Version: 1.96.2
Commit: 5b19bac7a947f54e4caa3eb7e4c5fbf832389850
Date: 2025-06-25T02:14:24.784Z
Electron: 34.5.1
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.0
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 24.5.0

2

cc @danperks @IsaacHopkinson

3

Hey there! This is most likely an issue with the API key and how it’s being passed in. From the API docs, it’s passed in as a username with no password as basic auth.

Basic auth is just an authorization header in the format: Authorization: Basic Username:Password (where user:pass is base64 encoded). Since we don’t use a password in the docs, the equivalent JS code would be:

async function getCursorUsageData() {
  const response = await fetch('https://api.cursor.com/teams/members', {
    headers: {
      'Authorization': `Basic ${btoa(YOUR_API_KEY+':')}` //replace KEY with your key
    }
  });

Hope that makes sense!

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