46elks · Rate Limits

46Elks Rate Limits

46elks does not publish fixed public request-per-second quotas for its HTTP API. In practice throughput is governed by carrier and operator constraints on SMS and voice delivery, by your prepaid account balance, and by anti-abuse controls. High volume senders are onboarded and rate-shaped with 46elks support. Specific numeric limits are not reconciled in this artifact.

46Elks Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for 46elks on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Rate Limits specification.

It captures 4 rate-limit definitions, measuring messages, concurrent_calls, requests, and balance.

The profile also includes 3 backoff/retry policies defined and response codes documented for throttled.

Tagged areas include CPaaS, SMS, MMS, Voice, and Rate Limiting.

4 Limits Throttle: 429
CPaaSSMSMMSVoiceRate LimitingQuotasThrottling

Limits

SMS Send Rate account
messages
see provider support
Effective throughput is shaped by operator/carrier limits and account standing.
Voice Call Concurrency account
concurrent_calls
see provider support
Governed by allocated call channels; extra channels can be rented per month.
API Requests account
requests
see provider support
No fixed public RPS documented; abusive traffic is throttled.
Account Balance account
balance
prepaid
Sending stops when the prepaid balance is exhausted.

Policies

Prepaid Gating
Usage is gated by the prepaid account balance rather than a hard rate cap.
Backoff Strategy
Clients should implement retries with exponential backoff and honor Retry-After on 429.
Volume Onboarding
High-volume messaging and calling is arranged with 46elks support for capacity and deliverability.

Sources

Work with this as data

Every rate limit here is available over the APIs.io API and to AI agents over MCP.

MCP server

One button, every client — Claude, Cursor, VS Code and the rest.

https://apis.io/mcp

Tools for rate limits

4 MCP tools reach this
  • find_rate_limitsBrowse and filter every rate limit in the catalog.
  • apis_io_searchSTART HERE — APIs, providers and tags for one query, each with its total.
  • resolveTurn a domain, URL or GitHub org into the provider it belongs to.
  • find_cohortsEvery scored population of providers in the catalog.
All 92 tools →

Call it yourself

curl for this page
This rate limit 
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/rate-limits/46elks-rate-limits"
All rate limits 
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/rate-limits?limit=25"

Discovery needs no key. Ratings and market analysis are Pro.

Get an API key

Free tier, no form to fill in. Signing in shares your email address with us — we store it to create your key and to recognise you if you sign in with another provider. See our Privacy Policy and Terms.

GitHub Google LinkedIn

A second provider on the same verified email joins the account you already have.