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Brandwatch Rate Limits

Published rate limits for the Brandwatch Consumer Research API, harvested from the provider's own rate-limiting page. This replaces a 2026-05-04 scaffold whose tier numbers (10/min free, 100/min professional) were invented; the real limit is a single flat 30 requests per rolling 10 minutes, applied per Client rather than per user or per key, with no published tier variation.

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

It captures 1 rate-limit definition, measuring requests.

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

Tagged areas include Analytics, Social Media, Consumer Intelligence, Rate Limiting, and Quotas.

1 Limits Throttle: 429 Quota: 429
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Limits

Consumer Research API default client
requests
30

Policies

Rolling window
For a request to be inside the limit there must have been fewer than 30 other API requests for the same Client in the preceding 10 minutes. Requests beyond the limit are rejected with HTTP 429 Too Many Requests.
Serialize, do not parallelize
Brandwatch recommends queuing requests client-side and executing them linearly. Parallel requests may be throttled and take longer to return than the same requests issued in sequence.
Cache reference data
Brandwatch recommends caching Categories, Tags and Lists locally rather than re-fetching them alongside every Mentions call — direct guidance for staying inside 30 calls per 10 minutes.
Choose polling intervals by data volatility
Poll a Mentions stream roughly every 30 seconds; poll a weekly volume chart far less often.
Raising the limit is a sales conversation
"If you have a use case that doesn't fit within these rate limits, then please get in touch with your account manager." There is no published higher tier and no self-service increase.