OpenAI · Rate Limits
Openai Rate Limits
OpenAI rate limits scale by usage tier (Tier 1-5+) which advances automatically based on cumulative spend. Five metrics: RPM, RPD, TPM, TPD, IPM.
Openai Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for OpenAI on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Rate Limits specification.
The profile also includes 3 backoff/retry policies defined and response codes documented for throttled.
Tagged areas include Rate Limiting and AI.
0 Limits
Throttle: 429
Rate LimitingAI
Policies
Auto tier advancement
Tier upgrades happen automatically when both spend and account-age thresholds are crossed.
Above Tier 5
Contact OpenAI sales for custom limits beyond Tier 5.
Per-model limits
Each model has its own RPM/TPM ceiling; check the platform.openai.com/account/limits page.
Sources
Work with this as data
Every rate limit here is available over the APIs.io API and to AI agents over MCP.
MCP server
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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.
Call it yourself
curl for this page
This rate limit
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/rate-limits/openai-rate-limits"
All rate limits
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/rate-limits?limit=25"Discovery needs no key. Ratings and market analysis are Pro.