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Flightaware Rate Limits

FlightAware's published rate limits for AeroAPI and Firehose. This REPLACES the 2026-05-04 scaffold that previously stood here, which asserted invented per-minute quotas and a full X-RateLimit-* header family that AeroAPI does not return. The real posture is the opposite: limits are published as COMMERCIAL TIER ATTRIBUTES measured in result sets, and there is no runtime rate-limit signal at all.

Flightaware Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for FlightAware on the APIs.io network, in the API Commons Rate Limits shape.

It captures 6 rate-limit definitions, across the Personal, Standard, Premium, and all tiers, measuring result_sets_per_minute, result_sets_per_second, result_sets_per_month, and concurrent_connections.

Limit state is signalled in the limit, remaining, reset, and retryAfter response headers, and an exhausted limit returns HTTP undocumented.

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

Tagged areas include Aviation, Rate Limiting, Quotas, Throttling, and Metering.

6 Limits Exhausted: HTTP undocumented Quota: undocumented limitremainingresetretryAfter
Transcribed from the provider's documentation on 2026-09-10 — www.flightaware.com/commercial/aeroapi/ (published tier l....
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AviationRate LimitingQuotasThrottlingMetering

Limits

Personal tier request rate api-key
result_sets_per_minute · minute
10
Standard tier request rate api-key
result_sets_per_second · second
5
Premium tier request rate api-key
result_sets_per_second · second
100
Historical endpoint monthly ceiling account
result_sets_per_month · month
500000
Historical endpoint monthly ceiling account
result_sets_per_month · month
500000
Firehose concurrent connections account
concurrent_connections · concurrent
4

Policies

Cost is the real limit
Because AeroAPI meters per result set with no request quota, the binding constraint for most consumers is spend, not throttling. `max_pages` is the single most cost-sensitive parameter in the API; there is no budget cap or spend guard in the contract.
Firehose reconnect
Firehose publishes operational guidance rather than a rate limit: disconnect and reconnect if no message has arrived in 5 minutes, and resume with `pitr ` or `range ` from the last received timestamp so no data is lost.

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

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

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