Covalent · Rate Limits
Covalent Rate Limits
Reconciled rate limits for the GoldRush platform. Requests-per-second caps gate burst traffic; a credit allotment governs monthly consumption with optional Flex-credit overage on paid plans.
Covalent Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for Covalent on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Rate Limits specification.
It captures 4 rate-limit definitions, across the Free Trial, Vibe Coding, Professional, and Inner Circle (Enterprise) tiers.
The profile also includes 4 backoff/retry policies defined and response codes documented for throttled and quotaExceeded.
Tagged areas include Blockchain, Rate Limiting, Credits, and Quotas.
4 Limits
Throttle: 429
Quota: 429
BlockchainRate LimitingCreditsQuotas
Limits
Policies
Rate-limit headers
HTTP 429 responses include retry guidance; clients should respect retry-after and back off exponentially.
Burst control
RPS caps are token-bucketed at the plan limit; sustained excess returns 429.
Credit consumption visibility
The GoldRush Platform dashboard surfaces real-time credit consumption per key and per endpoint family.
Flex credits
Paid plans (Vibe Coding, Professional) auto-scale beyond the included allotment at $0.00077 per credit unless capped.
Sources
Work with this as data
Every rate limit here is available over the APIs.io API and to AI agents over MCP.