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) {
diff --git a/apps/api/src/main/runWebScraper.ts b/apps/api/src/main/runWebScraper.ts
index 9f35c4d0a..2b141daa4 100644
--- a/apps/api/src/main/runWebScraper.ts
+++ b/apps/api/src/main/runWebScraper.ts
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ export async function runWebScraper({
 
 const saveJob = async (job: Job, result: any) => {
   try {
-    if (process.env.USE_DB_AUTHENTICATION) {
+    if (process.env.USE_DB_AUTHENTICATION === "true") {
       const { data, error } = await supabase_service
         .from("firecrawl_jobs")
         .update({ docs: result })
diff --git a/apps/api/src/services/logging/log_job.ts b/apps/api/src/services/logging/log_job.ts
index 7c8c78f99..9764493fb 100644
--- a/apps/api/src/services/logging/log_job.ts
+++ b/apps/api/src/services/logging/log_job.ts
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import "dotenv/config";
 
 export async function logJob(job: FirecrawlJob) {
   try {
-    if (!process.env.USE_DB_AUTHENTICATION) {
+    if (process.env.USE_DB_AUTHENTICATION === "false") {
       return;
     }