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# API token templates

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Below is a table of the currently available API token templates and the default [token permissions](https://641a99ee.previews.developers.cloudflare.com/fundamentals/api/reference/permissions/) they grant. You can start creating a token with one of these templates and modify the permissions and resources from there.

| Template Name | Permission | Resource |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Edit Zone DNS | DNS Write | Zone |
| Read billing info | Billing Read | Account |
| Account resources: Include all accounts | |
| Read analytics and logs | Analytics Read | Zone |
| Logs Read | Zone |
| Edit Cloudflare Workers | Workers Routes Write | Zone |
| Workers Scripts Write | Account |
| Workers KV Storage Write | Account |
| Workers Tail Read | Account |
| Workers R2 Storage Write | Account |
| Account Settings Read | Account |
| User Details Read | User |
| User Memberships Read | User |
| Edit load balancing configuration | Load Balancing: Monitors and Pools Write | Account |
| Load Balancers Write | Zone |
| WordPress | Analytics Read | Zone |
| Zone Read | Zone |
| Zone Settings Write | Zone |
| Account Settings Read | Account |
| DNS Read | Zone |
| Cache Purge | Zone |
| Account resources: Include all accounts | |
| Zone resources: Include all zones | |
| Create Additional Tokens | API Tokens Write | User |
| Read All Resources | *(All read permissions)* | Account, Zone, User |
| Account resources: Include all accounts | |
| Zone resources: Include all zones | |

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