Orama · Rate Limits

Orama Rate Limits

Orama Cloud advertises unlimited search queries, unlimited embeddings generation, and unlimited answer sessions across all plans. The primary metered quota is index updates (successful deployments), which is capped per plan - 150 per month on the Free tier, with higher allowances on paid tiers. Additional per-index limits apply to user segments and triggers. Specific per-tier throttling thresholds for write/management endpoints are not published and are not reconciled in this artifact. The open-source engine runs locally and is not rate limited.

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

It captures 6 rate-limit definitions, measuring requests, sessions, embeddings, deployments, and segments.

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

Tagged areas include Search, Vector Search, RAG, Open Source, and Search as a Service.

6 Limits Throttle: 429
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Limits

Search Queries index
requests
unlimited
Unlimited search queries on all plans, including Free.
Answer Sessions index
sessions
unlimited
Unlimited answer (RAG) sessions and answers on all plans.
Embeddings Generation account
embeddings
unlimited
Unlimited embeddings generation on all plans.
Index Updates account
deployments
150 per month (Free); higher on paid tiers
An index update is one successful deployment; the main metered quota.
User Segments index
segments
5 (Free)
Per-index segment cap on the Free tier.
Triggers index
triggers
3 (Free)
Per-index trigger cap on the Free tier.

Policies

Tiered Limits
Quotas (index updates, segments, triggers, analytics retention) scale from Free to Pro, Premium, and Enterprise.
Backoff Strategy
Clients should implement exponential backoff with jitter and honor Retry-After on 429 responses.

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