# Claude Console The web dashboard for the [[Claude Platform]]. It's where you do everything that isn't a code change: create API keys, watch your usage, set spend limits, manage workspaces, and try prompts in the browser before you ship them. It lives at platform.claude.com. Think of it as the cockpit. The [[Claude API]] is the engine; the Console is where you read the gauges and flip the switches. ## What you actually use it for - **API keys** — generate, rotate, and revoke the keys that authenticate every [[Claude API]] call - **Workspaces** — segment keys by project or team, each with its own spend cap and rate limits - **Usage and billing** — token spend, request volume, and which usage tier you're on - **Workbench** — a browser playground to draft and test prompts, then export them as code - **Limits** — view your rate limits and request a bump (or Priority Tier) when you outgrow them ## Why it matters Without the Console you'd be flying blind. No way to see what you're spending. No way to cap a runaway script before it burns the budget. No way to hand a teammate a scoped key instead of your master one. Workspaces are the part that quietly saves you. They're the difference between one shared key everyone is scared to touch, and clean per-project isolation where a leaked or misused key only affects one slice of your spend. ## References - Console: https://platform.claude.com/ - Workbench: https://platform.claude.com/workbench - API keys: https://platform.claude.com/settings/keys - Workspaces: https://platform.claude.com/settings/workspaces ## Related - [[Claude Platform]] - [[Claude API]] - [[Claude]] - [[Anthropic]] - [[Claude Managed Agents]]