Edamam · Rate Limits

Edamam Rate Limits

Edamam enforces both per-minute request-rate limits and monthly call quotas, scoped to the API key (app_id / app_key) and varying by purchased plan tier. Rate limits also differ by request category (Food/Nutrition, UPC, Autocomplete, Vision). The numbers below reflect Edamam's published Food and Grocery Database plan tiers; monthly quotas are managed as plan entries (see plans/edamam-plans-pricing.yml) while the per-minute ceilings are hard throttles applied regardless of remaining quota.

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

It captures 11 rate-limit definitions, measuring requests_per_minute, requests_per_day, and requests_per_month.

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

Tagged areas include Food, Nutrition, UPC, Rate Limiting, and Quotas.

11 Limits Throttle: 429 Quota: 429
FoodNutritionUPCRate LimitingQuotasThrottling

Limits

Enterprise Basic — Food/Nutrition/UPC key
requests_per_minute · minute
50
Applies to Food, Nutrition, and UPC categories on the Enterprise Basic tier.
Enterprise Basic — Autocomplete key
requests_per_minute · minute
50
Enterprise Basic — Vision key
requests_per_day · day
50
Enterprise Basic — Monthly Quota key
requests_per_month · month
100000
Enterprise Core — Food/Nutrition/UPC key
requests_per_minute · minute
100
Enterprise Core — Autocomplete key
requests_per_minute · minute
500
Enterprise Core — Vision key
requests_per_minute · minute
50
Enterprise Core — Monthly Quota key
requests_per_month · month
750000
Enterprise Plus — All Categories key
requests_per_minute · minute
300
Enterprise Plus — Monthly Quota key
requests_per_month · month
5000000
Enterprise Unlimited — All Categories contract
requests_per_minute
unlimited (negotiated)
Custom-priced tier; no published per-minute ceiling.

Policies

Per-Category Throttling
Rate limits are enforced per request category (Food/Nutrition, UPC, Autocomplete, Vision), so heavy use of one category does not consume another's per-minute budget.
Quota vs Rate
Monthly call quotas (tied to the purchased plan) are separate from the per-minute rate ceilings. Hitting either results in throttling until the window resets or the plan is upgraded.
Backoff Strategy
Clients should implement exponential backoff with jitter when a 429 is returned.
Usage Monitoring
Consumption can be monitored from the Edamam buyer dashboard usage stats page; quotas reset at the start of each monthly billing cycle.

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