diff --git a/apps/api/src/controllers/crawl-status.ts b/apps/api/src/controllers/crawl-status.ts
index 3a079455c..a55003ccc 100644
--- a/apps/api/src/controllers/crawl-status.ts
+++ b/apps/api/src/controllers/crawl-status.ts
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ export async function crawlStatusController(req: Request, res: Response) {
     const { current, current_url, total, current_step, partialDocs } = await job.progress();
 
     let data = job.returnvalue;
-    if (process.env.USE_DB_AUTHENTICATION) {
+    if (process.env.USE_DB_AUTHENTICATION === "true") {
       const supabaseData = await supabaseGetJobById(req.params.jobId);
 
       if (supabaseData) {
diff --git a/apps/api/src/controllers/status.ts b/apps/api/src/controllers/status.ts
index 756c42419..ec4ec131e 100644
--- a/apps/api/src/controllers/status.ts
+++ b/apps/api/src/controllers/status.ts
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ export async function crawlJobStatusPreviewController(req: Request, res: Respons
 
     const { current, current_url, total, current_step, partialDocs } = await job.progress();
     let data = job.returnvalue;
-    if (process.env.USE_DB_AUTHENTICATION) {
+    if (process.env.USE_DB_AUTHENTICATION === "true") {
       const supabaseData = await supabaseGetJobById(req.params.jobId);
 
       if (supabaseData) {