# Consume a service

**Steps to Consume a Service:**

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* **Sign Up** on [apinity Xplore](https://marketplace.apinity.io/) with your e-mail address and log in.
* In the top-right corner, create a Workspace for your company by clicking on **Create Workspace** and filling out the form.

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You will manage your services and subscriptions from the workspace.
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* Go to the [**Catalog**](https://marketplace.apinity.io/catalog).
* Browse to the service you are looking for and click it to open.
* In the service description click on the tab **Available Plans** to see the different pricing options. By clicking on the plan cards you can see all pricing details, limits and technical documentation.

  <div data-gb-custom-block data-tag="hint" data-style="info" class="hint hint-info"><p>If the service offers a <strong>Demo Plan</strong> (indicated with a badge), you can use the demo plan for testing the API and integration for free.</p></div>

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* On the preferred Plan, click on **Subscribe.** A “Review order” page will show you all details of the subscription as well as the legal documents. In order to continue, click on **Complete Order**.
* The technical setup of the subscription will happen in the background and after a few seconds you will be brought to the [**Subscriptions**](https://marketplace.apinity.io/my-hub/subscriptions) page where the new subscription will be visible.
* In the next step, you need to set up your API credentials. Click on the subscription and scroll down to the *Create or Assign Consumer Clients* section. Click **Create New & Assign**.
* Define a name for this Consumer client and copy the automatically generated API-Key. **Save the API Key in a secure place.**

<img src="/files/MPmgSGIHkpjlfWzjvfq2" alt="(blue star)" data-size="line"> Your subscription is now set up and can be consumed via any application, command line tool or Postman.

In order to see details on the technical consumption of an API, please refer to [<mark style="color:blue;">**Consuming an API**</mark>](/step-by-step/subscribe-and-consume-a-service/consume-an-api-technical-implementation.md).


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