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Apis Io Rate Limits

Enforced rate limits for the APIs.io API. Metered per API key at the AWS API Gateway usage plan bound by the request authorizer: a sustained per-second rate with a short burst ceiling, plus a rolling daily quota. Exceeding either answers 429.

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

It captures 8 rate-limit definitions, across the free, starter, pro, and business tiers, measuring requests_per_second and requests_per_day.

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

Tagged areas include API Aggregation, API Directory, API Discovery, API Indexing, and API Rating.

8 Limits Throttle: 429 Quota: 429
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Limits

Free Tier Rate api-key
requests_per_second · second
5
Free Tier Daily Quota api-key
requests_per_day · day
1000
Starter Tier Rate api-key
requests_per_second · second
20
Starter Tier Daily Quota api-key
requests_per_day · day
10000
Pro Tier Rate api-key
requests_per_second · second
100
Pro Tier Daily Quota api-key
requests_per_day · day
100000
Business Tier Rate api-key
requests_per_second · second
400
Business Tier Daily Quota api-key
requests_per_day · day
1000000

Policies

Backoff Strategy
Clients should implement exponential backoff with jitter on 429. Retry-After is not currently sent; back off on the documented policy rather than waiting for it.
Burst Handling
Short bursts above the sustained per-second rate are tolerated up to the burst ceiling before throttling engages.
Quota Reset
The quota window is a rolling 24 hours enforced by the gateway, not a calendar month. The per-second rate is a token bucket.
Tier Gating
Resources above a caller's tier answer 402, not 403 and not 429 — a payment signal, distinct from being rate limited.

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

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