diff --git a/src/lib/routes/admin-api/api-token.ts b/src/lib/routes/admin-api/api-token.ts
index c8e5f15cf5..d5210b56d4 100644
--- a/src/lib/routes/admin-api/api-token.ts
+++ b/src/lib/routes/admin-api/api-token.ts
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ const permissionToTokenType: (permission: string) => ApiTokenType | undefined =
                 UPDATE_CLIENT_API_TOKEN,
             ].includes(permission)
         ) {
-            return ApiTokenType.BACKEND;
+            return ApiTokenType.CLIENT;
         } else if (ADMIN === permission) {
             return ApiTokenType.ADMIN;
         } else {
diff --git a/src/test/e2e/api/admin/api-token.auth.e2e.test.ts b/src/test/e2e/api/admin/api-token.auth.e2e.test.ts
index 4403d5ace2..cb423853e3 100644
--- a/src/test/e2e/api/admin/api-token.auth.e2e.test.ts
+++ b/src/test/e2e/api/admin/api-token.auth.e2e.test.ts
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ test('editor users should only get client or frontend tokens', async () => {
         projects: [],
         tokenName: 'test',
         secret: '*:environment.1234',
-        type: ApiTokenType.BACKEND,
+        type: ApiTokenType.CLIENT,
     });
 
     await stores.apiTokenStore.insert({
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ test('editor users should only get client or frontend tokens', async () => {
         .expect(200)
         .expect((res) => {
             expect(res.body.tokens.length).toBe(2);
-            expect(res.body.tokens[0].type).toBe(ApiTokenType.BACKEND);
+            expect(res.body.tokens[0].type).toBe(ApiTokenType.CLIENT);
             expect(res.body.tokens[1].type).toBe(ApiTokenType.FRONTEND);
         });
 
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ test('viewer users should not be allowed to fetch tokens', async () => {
         projects: [],
         tokenName: 'test',
         secret: '*:environment.1234',
-        type: ApiTokenType.BACKEND,
+        type: ApiTokenType.CLIENT,
     });
 
     await stores.apiTokenStore.insert({
@@ -462,7 +462,7 @@ describe('Fine grained API token permissions', () => {
                 projects: [],
                 tokenName: 'client',
                 secret: '*:environment.client_secret_1234',
-                type: ApiTokenType.BACKEND,
+                type: ApiTokenType.CLIENT,
             });
 
             await stores.apiTokenStore.insert({
@@ -485,7 +485,7 @@ describe('Fine grained API token permissions', () => {
                 .expect(200)
                 .expect((res) => {
                     expect(res.body.tokens).toHaveLength(1);
-                    expect(res.body.tokens[0].type).toBe(ApiTokenType.BACKEND);
+                    expect(res.body.tokens[0].type).toBe(ApiTokenType.CLIENT);
                 });
             await destroy();
         });
@@ -521,7 +521,7 @@ describe('Fine grained API token permissions', () => {
                 projects: [],
                 tokenName: 'client',
                 secret: '*:environment.client_secret_4321',
-                type: ApiTokenType.BACKEND,
+                type: ApiTokenType.CLIENT,
             });
 
             await stores.apiTokenStore.insert({
@@ -579,7 +579,7 @@ describe('Fine grained API token permissions', () => {
                 projects: [],
                 tokenName: 'client',
                 secret: '*:environment.client_secret_4321',
-                type: ApiTokenType.BACKEND,
+                type: ApiTokenType.CLIENT,
             });
             await stores.apiTokenStore.insert({
                 environment: '',