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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, in the API Commons Rate Limits shape.

It captures 1 rate-limit definition, measuring requests.

Limit state is signalled in the limit, limit_format, used, and remaining response headers, and an exhausted limit returns HTTP 429.

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 Exhausted: HTTP 429 Quota: 429 limitlimit_formatusedremaining
Transcribed from the provider's documentation on 2026-08-13 — developers.brandwatch.com/docs/rate-limiting.
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AnalyticsSocial MediaConsumer IntelligenceRate LimitingQuotasThrottling

Limits

Consumer Research API default client
requests · per 10
30/10

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.

Work with this as data

Every rate limit here is available over the APIs.io API and to AI agents over MCP.

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Tools for rate limits

4 MCP tools reach this
  • 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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Call it yourself

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

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