Listen Notes · Rate Limits

Listennotes Rate Limits

The Listen API governs usage in two ways: a monthly request quota tied to your plan (FREE, PRO, ENTERPRISE), and per-request rate limits plus a search-result-depth cap. The FREE plan is bounded by its monthly quota and a 30-result search-depth cap. The PRO plan documents rate limits of about 2 requests/second and 20 requests/minute and a 300-result search-depth cap. ENTERPRISE offers higher rate limits and up to 10,000 results per query. Exceeding limits returns HTTP 429.

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

It captures 8 rate-limit definitions, measuring requests, results, and ids.

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

Tagged areas include Podcasts, Podcast Search, Search, Rate Limiting, and Quotas.

8 Limits Throttle: 429
PodcastsPodcast SearchSearchRate LimitingQuotas

Limits

Monthly Request Quota (FREE) account
requests
300 per month
FREE plan allowance; access is suspended when exceeded.
Monthly Request Quota (PRO) account
requests
5000 included per month, metered overage beyond
Additional requests billed per 1,000; no hard cap.
Requests Per Second (PRO) account
requests
~2 per second
Documented PRO-tier per-second rate limit.
Requests Per Minute (PRO) account
requests
~20 per minute
Documented PRO-tier per-minute rate limit.
Search Result Depth (FREE) request
results
30 (offset < 30)
Maximum reachable search results per query on FREE.
Search Result Depth (PRO) request
results
300 (offset < 300)
Maximum reachable search results per query on PRO.
Search Result Depth (ENTERPRISE) request
results
10000 (offset < 10000)
Maximum reachable search results per query on ENTERPRISE.
Batch Fetch Size request
ids
up to 10 per batch request
POST /podcasts and POST /episodes accept up to ~10 comma-separated ids.

Policies

Quota Suspension
On the FREE plan, API access is suspended once the monthly request allowance is exceeded.
Metered Overage
On the PRO plan, requests beyond the included allowance are billed per additional 1,000 requests.
Backoff Strategy
Clients should implement exponential backoff with jitter and honor Retry-After on HTTP 429 responses.
Server-Side Caching
Caching API responses server-side is permitted under ENTERPRISE terms; verify terms of use for other plans.

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