Optional - Obtaining access to the AI Developer Edition API Service

Creating a user account and completing the registration.

Registration is only required for running the APIs to protect, unprotect, and reprotect data. The find and redact that uses Data Discovery, Semantic Guardrail, and Synthetic Data features can be used without registration. Skip this section if find and protect that uses the tokenization and encryption feature is not required.

Registering for access

Sign up for access to the AI Developer Edition API Service. This is required for obtaining access to use the APIs.

  1. Open a web browser.
  2. Navigate to https://www.protegrity.com/developers/dev-edition-api.
  3. Specify the following details:
    • First Name
    • Last Name
    • Work Email
    • Job Title
    • Company Name
    • Country
  4. Click the Terms & Conditions link and read the terms and conditions.
  5. Select the check box to accept the terms and conditions.
  6. Click Get Started.

The request is analyzed. After the request is approved, a password and API key to access the AI Developer Edition API Service is sent to the Work Email specified. If the account already exists, then the details are re-sent to the email address. The email takes a minute or two to arrive. If the email does not arrive in the specified email’s inbox, check the spam or junk folder first, before retrying.

Use the online Protegrity notebook with the credentials to test tokenization.

Specifying the authentication information

Add the login information provided by Protegrity to the environment to access the AI Developer Edition API Service.

Note: It is recommended to add the details to the environment variables to avoid specifying the information every time the environment is initialized.

  1. Open a command prompt.
  2. Initialize a Python virtual environment.
  3. Add the email address of the user.
export DEV_EDITION_EMAIL='<Email_used_for_registration>'

$env:DEV_EDITION_EMAIL = '<Email_used_for_registration>' 

export DEV_EDITION_EMAIL='<Email_used_for_registration>'
  1. Specify the password provided in the registration email.
export DEV_EDITION_PASSWORD='<Password_provided_in_email>'

$env:DEV_EDITION_PASSWORD = '<Password_provided_in_email>' 

export DEV_EDITION_PASSWORD='<Password_provided_in_email>'
  1. Specify the API key for accessing the AI Developer Edition API Service.
export DEV_EDITION_API_KEY='<API_key_provided_in_email>'

$env:DEV_EDITION_API_KEY = '<API_key_provided_in_email>'  

export DEV_EDITION_API_KEY='<API_key_provided_in_email>'
  1. Verify that the variables are set.
test -n "$DEV_EDITION_EMAIL" && echo "EMAIL $DEV_EDITION_EMAIL set" || echo "EMAIL missing"
test -n "$DEV_EDITION_PASSWORD" && echo "PASSWORD $DEV_EDITION_PASSWORD set" || echo "PASSWORD missing"
test -n "$DEV_EDITION_API_KEY" && echo "API KEY $DEV_EDITION_API_KEY set" || echo "API KEY missing"

if ($env:DEV_EDITION_EMAIL) { Write-Output "EMAIL $env:DEV_EDITION_EMAIL set"} else { Write-Output "EMAIL missing"} 
if ($env:DEV_EDITION_PASSWORD) { Write-Output "PASSWORD $env:DEV_EDITION_PASSWORD set" } else { Write-Output "PASSWORD missing" } 
if ($env:DEV_EDITION_API_KEY) { Write-Output "API KEY $env:DEV_EDITION_API_KEY set" } else { Write-Output "API KEY missing" } 

test -n "$DEV_EDITION_EMAIL" && echo "EMAIL $DEV_EDITION_EMAIL set" || echo "EMAIL missing"
test -n "$DEV_EDITION_PASSWORD" && echo "PASSWORD $DEV_EDITION_PASSWORD set" || echo "PASSWORD missing"
test -n "$DEV_EDITION_API_KEY" && echo "API KEY $DEV_EDITION_API_KEY set" || echo "API KEY missing"

AI Developer Edition API Service usage guidelines

To ensure fair use of the API service, a rate limit is enforced on API requests to the AI Developer Edition API Service.

These limits are:

  • Request rate: 50 per second
  • Burst: up to 100
  • Quota: 10,000 requests per user per day
  • Maximum payload size: 1MB

Last modified : January 23, 2026