Geocodio · Rate Limits

Geocodio Rate Limits

Geocodio enforces a per-minute lookup rate limit and a daily free allowance. Pay-as-you-go and Flex accounts receive 2,500 free lookups per day and are limited to roughly 1,000 lookups per minute. The Unlimited plan provisions a dedicated instance with no rate limiting, scaling to roughly 3,333 lookups per minute (about 5,000,000 per day). Batch and list endpoints process up to 10,000 records per request.

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

It captures 4 rate-limit definitions, measuring lookups and records.

The profile also includes 3 backoff/retry policies defined and response codes documented for throttled.

Tagged areas include Geocoding, Reverse Geocoding, Addresses, Data Append, and Census.

4 Limits Throttle: 429
GeocodingReverse GeocodingAddressesData AppendCensusRate LimitingQuotasThrottling

Limits

Lookups Per Minute (Pay-as-you-go / Flex) account
lookups
1000
Approximately 1,000 lookups per minute on metered and Flex plans.
Daily Free Lookups account
lookups
2500
First 2,500 lookups per day are free and do not roll over.
Lookups Per Minute (Unlimited) account
lookups
3333
Dedicated Unlimited instance has no rate limiting; scales to ~3,333 lookups/minute (~5M/day).
Batch Size request
records
10000
Up to 10,000 addresses or coordinates per batch geocode or reverse request.

Policies

Daily Free Allowance
2,500 free lookups per day; unused free lookups do not carry over.
Field Appends Count As Lookups
Each requested data append field counts as an additional lookup against the rate limit and quota.
Backoff Strategy
Clients should implement exponential backoff with jitter and honor 429 responses.

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