# How to build and authenticate an AI API using Modal, Neon, and Unkey

DevFeed: [How to build and authenticate an AI API using Modal, Neon, and Unkey](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-to-build-and-authenticate-an-ai-api-using-modal-neon-and-unkey-5378.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://neon.com/blog/how-to-build-and-authenticate-an-ai-api-using-modal-neon-and-unkey>)

Author: Dom Eccleston

Published: 2024-02-14T11:55:37Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Blog -- Neon Docs](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/blog-neon-docs.md>)

Topics: [API keys](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api-keys.md>)

Tags: [ai-api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-api.md>), [api-keys](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api-keys.md>), [community](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/community.md>), [how-to](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/how-to.md>), [openai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/openai.md>), [postgres](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/postgres.md>), [python](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/python.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>), [whisper](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/whisper.md>)

## AI overview

A tutorial for building and authenticating an AI transcription and summarization API with Modal, Neon, and Unkey.

## Source excerpt

As a developer building a product, you might want to open up access to your API. But this requires you to solve a few problems: All of this takes work and take time away from actually building your product. That's where Unkey comes in. Unkey provides API keys a service so that yo...