Concepts

Rate Limit

How many requests you can make per day or minute before you're throttled

Category: Concepts Also known as: 5 Related terms: 3

Definition

A cap on requests-per-time-window per user/IP. Protects the service from abuse and from overload. Our tiers: Free 1,000/day, Intelligence 10,000/day, Research API 100,000/month with 60/minute burst. Hitting the limit returns HTTP 429.

Context anchor

Public APIs typically allow 10–60 calls/min anonymously; we're at 30–60/min for paid tiers

Example

Rate limit: Free tier = 1,000 calls/day, Research API = 100,000/month

Also known as

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