diff --git a/apps/api/src/controllers/auth.ts b/apps/api/src/controllers/auth.ts
index a5aed8ff..bfcc5ac0 100644
--- a/apps/api/src/controllers/auth.ts
+++ b/apps/api/src/controllers/auth.ts
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ export async function supaAuthenticateUser(
   let priceId: string | null = null;
   let chunk: AuthCreditUsageChunk | null = null;
   let plan: PlanType = "free";
-  if (token == "this_is_just_a_preview_token") {
+  if (token == process.env.PREVIEW_TOKEN) {
     if (mode == RateLimiterMode.CrawlStatus) {
       rateLimiter = getRateLimiter(RateLimiterMode.CrawlStatus, token);
     } else if (mode == RateLimiterMode.ExtractStatus) {
@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ export async function supaAuthenticateUser(
   }
 
   const team_endpoint_token =
-    token === "this_is_just_a_preview_token" ? iptoken : teamId;
+    token === process.env.PREVIEW_TOKEN ? iptoken : teamId;
 
   try {
     await rateLimiter.consume(team_endpoint_token);
@@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ export async function supaAuthenticateUser(
   }
 
   if (
-    token === "this_is_just_a_preview_token" &&
+    token === process.env.PREVIEW_TOKEN &&
     (mode === RateLimiterMode.Scrape ||
       mode === RateLimiterMode.Preview ||
       mode === RateLimiterMode.Map ||
diff --git a/apps/api/src/controllers/v0/crawlPreview.ts b/apps/api/src/controllers/v0/crawlPreview.ts
index 00776e53..ffb8ebba 100644
--- a/apps/api/src/controllers/v0/crawlPreview.ts
+++ b/apps/api/src/controllers/v0/crawlPreview.ts
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ export async function crawlPreviewController(req: Request, res: Response) {
 
     const incomingIP = (req.headers["x-forwarded-for"] ||
       req.socket.remoteAddress) as string;
-    const iptoken = incomingIP + "this_is_just_a_preview_token";
+    const iptoken = incomingIP + process.env.PREVIEW_TOKEN;
     const team_id = `preview_${iptoken}`;
 
     if (!auth.success) {