API Football · Rate Limits

Api Football Rate Limits

Published request limits for the API-Football v3 API. THIS FILE REPLACES A 2026-05-04 SCAFFOLD that carried invented per-minute ceilings (10/100/1000 rpm) and an invented 1,000-request monthly free quota. Those numbers were never published by API-Sports and have been removed. What remains is the provider's real metering unit — a DAILY request quota attached to the plan — plus an honest record of what we could not verify.

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

It captures 5 rate-limit definitions, across the free, pro, ultra, mega, and higher tiers, measuring requests_per_day.

The profile also includes 2 backoff/retry policies defined.

Tagged areas include Sports, Football, Soccer, Live Scores, and Statistics.

5 Limits
SportsFootballSoccerLive ScoresStatisticsRate LimitingQuotas

Limits

Free plan daily quota api-key
requests_per_day · day
100
Pro plan daily quota api-key
requests_per_day · day
7500
Ultra plan daily quota api-key
requests_per_day · day
75000
Mega plan daily quota api-key
requests_per_day · day
150000
Highest published daily quota api-key
requests_per_day · day
1500000

Policies

Per-key metering
The quota is attached to the API key / account, and one key spans every API-Sports sport surface. Spending the daily allowance on basketball spends it for football too.
Client-side caching is the documented mitigation
The API sends `cache-control: private, no-store, no-cache`, so HTTP caching is off. The provider's own guidance (and its widgets' minimum 15-second `data-refresh`) push quota management onto the consumer.

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Tools for rate limits

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

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