Bing News Search · Rate Limits

Bing News Rate Limits

Machine-readable rate limit definitions for the Bing News Search API v7. Rate limits vary by subscription tier. The API returned a Retry-After header when throttled (HTTP 429). The API was retired on August 11, 2025.

Bing News Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for Bing News Search on the APIs.io network, in the API Commons Rate Limits shape.

It captures 3 rate-limit definitions, across the free and standard tiers, measuring requests_per_second and requests_per_month.

Limit state is signalled in the retryAfter, traceId, market, and clientId response headers, and an exhausted limit returns HTTP 429.

This profile was written by API Evangelist and has not been verified against a page the provider published; treat every limit as unconfirmed until a dated transcription replaces it.

The profile also includes 5 backoff/retry policies defined and response codes documented for throttled, notFound, and serviceUnavailable.

Tagged areas include News, Search, Microsoft, Bing, and Rate Limiting.

3 Limits Exhausted: HTTP 429 retryAftertraceIdmarketclientId
Method: generated, dated 2026-06-13.
Written by API Evangelist on 2026-06-13 and not verified against a page the provider published. Treat every limit as unconfirmed until a dated transcription replaces it.
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Limits

Free Tier (F1) - Queries Per Second api-key
requests_per_second · second
3
Free Tier (F1) - Monthly Quota api-key
requests_per_month · month
1000
Standard Tier (S1) - Queries Per Second api-key
requests_per_second · second
100

Policies

Retry-After Compliance
When HTTP 429 is returned, clients must honor the Retry-After response header value (in seconds) before issuing another request.
Exponential Backoff
Clients should implement exponential backoff with jitter when encountering repeated 429 responses beyond the Retry-After window.
Monthly Quota Reset
Monthly transaction quotas reset at the start of each calendar month in UTC.
URL Length Limit
Maximum URL length is 2,048 characters. Query parameters should be kept under 1,500 characters to avoid 404 Not Found errors.
HTTPS Required
All requests must use the HTTPS protocol; HTTP requests are not accepted.

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