Algolia · Rate Limits

Algolia Rate Limits

Algolia publishes a genuinely detailed service-limits page. The important structural finding for an agent is that the runtime signal is INCONSISTENT across the estate: the Analytics-family APIs return x-ratelimit-* response headers, and the Search-family APIs return none at all.

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

It captures 12 rate-limit definitions, measuring concurrent_pending_requests, pending_requests, calls_per_minute, indexing_operations_per_unit, and calls_per_10_minutes.

The profile also includes response codes documented for throttled.

Tagged areas include Rate Limiting and Search.

12 Limits Throttle: 429
Rate LimitingSearch

Limits

Pending requests (throttling limit) application
concurrent_pending_requests
100
Pending requests (queue ceiling) application
pending_requests
5000
Analytics API calls application
calls_per_minute · minute
100
Indexing rate application
indexing_operations_per_unit
10000
Ingestion push endpoint ip
calls_per_minute · minute
2000
Ingestion observability endpoints ip
calls_per_minute · minute
2000
Ingestion runTask task
calls_per_10_minutes · 10 minutes
10
Ingestion other endpoints ip
calls_per_minute · minute
200
Agent Studio completions application
completions_per_minute · minute
3000
AI Assist tokens application
combined_tokens_per_day · day
25000000
DocSearch queries application
queries_per_second
3
Insights tag processing index
unique_tag_combinations_per_5_minutes · 5 minutes
1750

Sources

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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.
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Call it yourself

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This rate limit 
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/rate-limits/algolia-rate-limits"
All rate limits 
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/rate-limits?limit=25"

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