API-Sports · Rate Limits

Api Sports Rate Limits

Rate-limit contract for the API-Sports family. API-Sports enforces two independent windows simultaneously — a per-minute request rate and a per-day request quota — and signals each with its own header family. Both are set by the subscription plan.

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

It captures 2 rate-limit definitions, measuring requests_per_minute and requests_per_day.

The profile also includes 4 backoff/retry policies defined and response codes documented for throttled, quotaExceeded, and note.

Tagged areas include Rate Limiting, Quotas, Throttling, and Sports Data.

2 Limits Throttle: 429 Quota: 200
Rate LimitingQuotasThrottlingSports Data

Limits

Per-minute request rate api-key
requests_per_minute · minute
Per-day request quota api-key
requests_per_day · day

Policies

Media does not count
The provider states that calls to logos and images do not count against the daily quota. Only data endpoints are metered.
Client-side spreading
The provider's stated purpose for returning the headers is to let clients adapt their logic and spread calls over time rather than discovering the ceiling by hitting it.
Quota preservation through caching
The provider publishes guidance on caching responses and hosting media on a CDN to reduce metered calls, while the API's own cache-control header is "no-store, no-cache". Application-layer caching is the provider's intended protection, not HTTP caching.
Marketplace channel is metered separately
Requests routed through RapidAPI (api-football-v1.p.rapidapi.com) are metered and billed by RapidAPI under its own plan names, not by the API-Sports daily allowance.

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