diff --git a/src/db/export/filter.ts b/src/db/export/filter.ts
index 9f78890..23876bd 100644
--- a/src/db/export/filter.ts
+++ b/src/db/export/filter.ts
@@ -24,9 +24,10 @@ export function kindAllowed(
 }
 
 /**
- * Whether an individual record passes a filter's `abodes`/`users` allowlists.
- * `abodes` scopes abode/resident/note (by aid); `users` scopes user/apikey
- * (by uid). An absent allowlist means "unrestricted".
+ * Whether an individual record passes a filter's `abodes`/`users`/`apikeys`
+ * allowlists. `abodes` scopes abode/resident/note (by aid); `users` scopes user
+ * (by uid); `apikey` records are scoped by `apikeys` when present, else by
+ * `users`. An absent allowlist means "unrestricted".
  */
 export function recordAllowed(
   filter: ExportFilter | undefined,
@@ -36,8 +37,11 @@ export function recordAllowed(
   if (!filter) return true;
   switch (kind) {
     case "user":
-    case "apikey":
       return !filter.users || filter.users.includes(record.uid as string);
+    case "apikey": {
+      const allow = filter.apikeys ?? filter.users;
+      return !allow || allow.includes(record.uid as string);
+    }
     case "abode":
     case "resident":
     case "note":
@@ -75,5 +79,6 @@ export function intersectExportFilters(
     excludeKinds: unionList(a.excludeKinds, b.excludeKinds),
     abodes: intersectList(a.abodes, b.abodes),
     users: intersectList(a.users, b.users),
+    apikeys: intersectList(a.apikeys, b.apikeys),
   };
 }
diff --git a/src/db/types/ExportImport.ts b/src/db/types/ExportImport.ts
index 9c600b2..e1afa39 100644
--- a/src/db/types/ExportImport.ts
+++ b/src/db/types/ExportImport.ts
@@ -15,8 +15,16 @@ export type ExportFilter = {
   excludeKinds?: ExportKind[];
   /** aid allowlist — scopes abode/resident/note. */
   abodes?: string[];
-  /** uid allowlist — scopes user/apikey. */
+  /** uid allowlist — scopes user (and apikey, unless `apikeys` is set). */
   users?: string[];
+  /**
+   * uid allowlist scoping apikey records specifically. When set it takes
+   * precedence over `users` for the `apikey` kind — used to export a
+   * non-admin's own keys while still exporting co-residents' *user* records
+   * for referential integrity, without leaking their apikey metadata. Absent =
+   * fall back to `users`.
+   */
+  apikeys?: string[];
 };
 
 export interface ExportOptions {
diff --git a/src/webapi/exportScope.ts b/src/webapi/exportScope.ts
index aa79bc8..12e0b97 100644
--- a/src/webapi/exportScope.ts
+++ b/src/webapi/exportScope.ts
@@ -9,10 +9,13 @@ import type { ExportFilter } from "../db/types/ExportImport.js";
  * global admin whose credential imposes no narrowing) — their own filter, if
  * any, is then honored verbatim as a voluntary narrowing.
  *
- * Otherwise returns `{ abodes, users }`: the abodes the caller resides in, and
- * the users needed to keep that data referentially whole (the caller plus every
- * co-resident of those abodes). This is the maximum a non-admin may export; the
- * route intersects it with any caller-supplied filter (never a union).
+ * Otherwise returns `{ abodes, users, apikeys }`: the abodes the caller resides
+ * in, the users needed to keep that data referentially whole (the caller plus
+ * every co-resident of those abodes), and — scoped tighter than `users` —
+ * apikeys limited to the caller alone, so a non-admin never exports another
+ * user's apikey metadata even though that user's record is included. This is
+ * the maximum a non-admin may export; the route intersects it with any
+ * caller-supplied filter (never a union).
  */
 export async function computeForcedExportFilter(
   db: BackendDbInterface,
@@ -40,6 +43,8 @@ export async function computeForcedExportFilter(
 
   let abodes = [...abodeSet];
   let users = [...userSet];
+  // apikeys are self-only for non-admins, regardless of co-residency.
+  let apikeys = [user.uid];
 
   // An apikey can only narrow what its owning user could otherwise export.
   if (session.source === "apikey") {
@@ -51,8 +56,9 @@ export async function computeForcedExportFilter(
     if (p.restrict_users?.length) {
       const allow = new Set(p.restrict_users);
       users = users.filter((u) => allow.has(u));
+      apikeys = apikeys.filter((u) => allow.has(u));
     }
   }
 
-  return { abodes, users };
+  return { abodes, users, apikeys };
 }
diff --git a/test/tools/export-import.test.ts b/test/tools/export-import.test.ts
index 359c529..c8bdaca 100644
--- a/test/tools/export-import.test.ts
+++ b/test/tools/export-import.test.ts
@@ -109,6 +109,12 @@ async function seed(db: TestDb["db"]): Promise<Seed> {
     permissions: {},
     expires_at: null,
   });
+  await db.createApikey({
+    uid: co.uid,
+    name: "co key",
+    permissions: {},
+    expires_at: null,
+  });
   const note1 = await db.createNote(
     {
       aid: abode1.aid,
@@ -312,6 +318,9 @@ describe("exportScope: computeForcedExportFilter", () => {
         new Set([s.normal.uid, s.co.uid]),
       );
       assert.ok(!forced!.users!.includes(s.admin.uid));
+      // apikeys are self-only, even though co is a co-resident whose user
+      // record is exported for referential integrity.
+      assert.deepEqual(forced!.apikeys, [s.normal.uid]);
 
       // A caller requesting a wider abode never gets it: intersection, not union.
       const effective = intersectExportFilters(
@@ -557,6 +566,17 @@ describe("GET /export endpoint", () => {
     assert.ok(userUids.has(s.co.uid));
     assert.ok(!userUids.has(s.admin.uid), "admin not a co-resident of aid1");
 
+    // apikeys are self-only: the caller's own key is exported, but a
+    // co-resident's key metadata is NOT, even though their user record is.
+    const apikeyUids = lines
+      .filter((l) => l.kind === "apikey")
+      .map((l) => l.data.uid);
+    assert.deepEqual(new Set(apikeyUids), new Set([s.normal.uid]));
+    assert.ok(
+      !apikeyUids.includes(s.co.uid),
+      "co-resident apikey metadata must not leak",
+    );
+
     // The meta line records the *effective* (narrowed) filter.
     const meta = lines.find((l) => l.kind === "meta");
     assert.ok(meta);