fatsecret · Rate Limits

Fatsecret Rate Limits

Published rate limits for the fatsecret Platform API. The runtime signal is the weak point for agents: there are no rate-limit response headers of any kind, no Retry-After, and no distinct HTTP status. A client only learns it is over quota by parsing error.code == 11 out of a body that otherwise looks like a normal response.

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

It captures 3 rate-limit definitions, across the Basic, Premier Free, and Premier tiers, measuring requests_per_day and requests.

The profile also includes 2 backoff/retry policies defined and response codes documented for throttled, quotaExceeded, and note.

Tagged areas include Barcode Scanning, Calories, Nutrition, Rate Limiting, and Quotas.

3 Limits
Barcode ScanningCaloriesNutritionRate LimitingQuotasThrottling

Limits

Basic edition daily quota api-key
requests_per_day · day
5000
Premier Free edition api-key
requests · none
-1
Premier edition contract
requests · none
-1

Policies

Per-profile throttle
Error code 12 is scoped to one member, not the application. Back off for that profile only; other members are unaffected.
Backoff strategy
With no Retry-After and no reset header, a client cannot compute a wait. On error 11 the only safe behaviour is to stop calling for that key and resume on the next day boundary; on error 12 use exponential backoff with jitter for that member.

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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

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This rate limit 
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/rate-limits/fatsecret-rate-limits"
All rate limits 
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/rate-limits?limit=25"

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