# API

> Authenticate, query, and automate your OVHcloud services with the OVHcloud API - application keys, tokens, OAuth2, and call best practices.
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> Other OVHcloud products: https://docs.ovhcloud.com/en/llms.txt

- [API](https://docs.ovhcloud.com/en/guides/manage-and-operate/api/overview.md): Authenticate, query, and automate your OVHcloud services with the OVHcloud API - application keys, tokens, OAuth2, and call best practices.

## Getting started

- [First Steps with the OVHcloud APIs](https://docs.ovhcloud.com/en/guides/manage-and-operate/api/first-steps.md): Learn how to use OVHcloud APIs
- [Exploring the OVHcloud APIs](https://docs.ovhcloud.com/en/guides/manage-and-operate/api/console-preview.md): Discover how to explore the OVHcloud APIs

## APIv6

- [OVHcloud API v2 - Principles of operation](https://docs.ovhcloud.com/en/guides/manage-and-operate/api/apiv2.md): Discover the new principles of exposure and consumption linked to the OVHcloud API v2
- [Manage services](https://docs.ovhcloud.com/en/guides/manage-and-operate/api/services.md): Manage the life cycle of your OVH Service after delivery
- [Manage payment and billing of OVHcloud services](https://docs.ovhcloud.com/en/guides/manage-and-operate/api/enterprise-payment.md): Discover how to add a payment mean, automate accounting and manage your corporate billing
- [How to manage a customer’s account via OVHcloud API](https://docs.ovhcloud.com/en/guides/manage-and-operate/api/api-right-delegation.md): Find out how to create an application and manage services for your customers
- [Create a OVH sub-account and a user account with OVH API](https://docs.ovhcloud.com/en/guides/manage-and-operate/api/account.md): Create a sub-account and a user account with OVH API to access to OVH Manager
- [Managing OVHcloud service accounts](https://docs.ovhcloud.com/en/guides/manage-and-operate/api/manage-service-account.md): Find out how to create, manage and use service accounts to connect to OVHcloud APIs via the Control Panel or the API
- [How to use service accounts to connect to OVHcloud APIs](https://docs.ovhcloud.com/en/guides/account-and-service-management/account-information/authenticate-api-with-service-account.md): How to connect to APIs with OVHcloud service accounts using the OAuth2 protocol
- [Generating OVHcloud account logs with Logs Data Platform](https://docs.ovhcloud.com/en/guides/manage-and-operate/iam/logs-forwarding.md): Find out how to forward OVHcloud customer account logs to Logs Data Platform