CurrencyAPI · Rate Limits

Currencyapi Rate Limits

CurrencyAPI enforces two layers of limiting - a monthly request quota that varies by plan (300 on Free up to 1,700,000 on Large, custom on enterprise) and a per-minute rate limit on some plans (10 requests/minute on Free; paid plans advertise no per-minute limit). Exceeding either returns HTTP 429. Only successful calls count against quota - failed requests, server errors, and validation errors are not counted, and the /status endpoint is always free of quota and rate limiting. Every response carries four headers for real-time consumption monitoring.

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

It captures 6 rate-limit definitions, measuring requests.

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

Tagged areas include Foreign Exchange, Currency, Exchange Rates, FX, and Rate Limiting.

6 Limits Throttle: 429
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Limits

Free Plan Monthly Quota account
requests
300 per month
Free plan monthly allowance; resets monthly.
Free Plan Minute Limit account
requests
10 per minute
Per-minute rate limit on the Free plan; 429 until the minute resets.
Small Plan Monthly Quota account
requests
15000 per month
No per-minute limit advertised on paid plans.
Medium Plan Monthly Quota account
requests
600000 per month
No per-minute limit advertised on paid plans.
Large Plan Monthly Quota account
requests
1700000 per month
Overages supported; no per-minute limit advertised.
Status Endpoint endpoint
requests
not counted
Requests to /status never count against quota or rate limit.

Policies

Successful Calls Only
Only successful calls count against quota - failed requests, server errors, and validation errors do not consume the monthly or minute allowance.
Quota Exceeded Behavior
Exceeding the monthly quota returns 429 until you upgrade or the month resets; exceeding the minute limit returns 429 until the minute resets.
Grace Quota
A grace (overage) quota is reported by the /status endpoint alongside the monthly quota, giving bounded headroom past the plan allowance.
Backoff Strategy
Clients should watch the X-RateLimit-Remaining-Quota-* headers and apply exponential backoff with jitter on 429 responses.

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