> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://help.clinikehr.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# The developer API

> ClinikAPI is a separate FHIR R4 developer platform with its own SDKs, components and documentation, licensed apart from your subscription.

export const Availability = ({editions = ['all'], plans, roles, note}) => {
  const list = editions.includes('all') ? ['clinic', 'pharmacy', 'lims'] : editions;
  return <div className="ck-avail" role="note" aria-label="Feature availability">
      <span className="ck-avail__label">Available in</span>

      {list.map(e => <span key={e} className={`ck-pill ck-pill--${e}`}>
          {EDITION_LABELS[e] || e}
        </span>)}

      {plans ? <span className="ck-avail__label">Plan</span> : null}
      {plans ? <span className="ck-pill ck-pill--plan">{plans}</span> : null}

      {roles ? <span className="ck-avail__label">Who</span> : null}
      {roles ? <span className="ck-pill ck-pill--role">{roles}</span> : null}

      {note ? <span className="ck-avail__note">{note}</span> : null}
    </div>;
};

<Availability editions={['all']} plans="Licensed separately from your ClinikEHR subscription" roles="Developers" />

**ClinikAPI** is a developer platform for building healthcare software. It is a separate product from ClinikEHR, with its own account, its own pricing and its own documentation.

## What it is

A **FHIR R4** API — the healthcare interoperability standard — with SDKs and embeddable React components on top of it, so a developer can read and write clinical records from their own application rather than through a ClinikEHR screen.

## Who it is for

Engineering teams building a product: a companion app, an integration between ClinikEHR and another system, a bespoke portal, or a research tool.

It is **not** the way to get your own data out of ClinikEHR for a spreadsheet or a migration. For that, use [Export your data](/platform/security/data-export), which needs no code and no separate account.

## Licensing

ClinikAPI is **licensed separately from your ClinikEHR subscription**. Being on any ClinikEHR plan, including Enterprise, does not include API access, and adding API access does not change your ClinikEHR plan. They are billed independently.

## Where the documentation is

Everything a developer needs — authentication, resources, SDKs, the React components, sandbox keys and rate limits — is at [docs.clinikapi.com](https://docs.clinikapi.com). None of it is duplicated here, so that there is only one version to be correct.

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  </Card>
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