Rate limits and throughput
Default limit is 1,000 requests per minute, burst to 5,000. Enterprise plans start at 10,000 per minute with custom capacity reservations for peak-traffic events.
The API is engineered to not rate-limit sensible usage patterns. The default ceilings exist only to protect shared infrastructure from runaway scripts — genuine traffic spikes are handled with a sliding-window burst allowance.
Default limits
- 1000 requests per minute, sustained, per API key.
- 5000 requests per minute, burst, as long as sustained rate stays under the cap.
- 100 simultaneous open connections per key.
- Rate-limit headers (X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, X-RateLimit-Reset) on every response.
Enterprise plans start at 10,000/min sustained and can be raised further against a capacity reservation — useful for Black Friday or exam-result-day traffic.
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