Lightcast · Rate Limits

Lightcast Rate Limits

Machine-readable rate limit definitions for the Lightcast API surface. Captures per-tier quotas, burst behavior, response signaling, and recovery semantics. Defaults are scaffold values to be replaced with published provider limits.

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

It captures 5 rate-limit definitions, across the free, professional, and enterprise tiers, measuring requests_per_minute and requests_per_month.

Limit state is signalled in the limit, remaining, reset, and retryAfter response headers, and an exhausted limit returns HTTP 429.

This profile was written by API Evangelist and has not been verified against a page the provider published; treat every limit as unconfirmed until a dated transcription replaces it.

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

Tagged areas include Careers, Economics, Labor Market, Workforce, and Rate Limiting.

5 Limits Exhausted: HTTP 429 Quota: 429 limitremainingresetretryAfter
Method: generated, dated 2026-05-04.
Written by API Evangelist on 2026-05-04 and not verified against a page the provider published. Treat every limit as unconfirmed until a dated transcription replaces it.
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CareersEconomicsLabor MarketWorkforceRate LimitingQuotasThrottling

Limits

Free Tier Default api-key
requests_per_minute · minute
10
Free Tier Monthly Quota api-key
requests_per_month · month
1000
Professional Tier Default api-key
requests_per_minute · minute
100
Professional Tier Monthly Quota api-key
requests_per_month · month
100000
Enterprise Negotiated Limit contract
requests_per_minute · minute
1000

Policies

Backoff Strategy
Clients should implement exponential backoff with jitter, honoring the Retry-After header when present.
Burst Handling
Short bursts above the steady-state limit are tolerated up to the documented burst ceiling before throttling engages.
Quota Reset
Monthly quotas reset at the start of each calendar month in UTC. Per-minute and per-second windows reset on a sliding-window basis.
Fair Use
Even on uncapped enterprise tiers, sustained usage that materially impacts shared infrastructure may be subject to fair-use throttling.

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

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