Semrush · Rate Limits

Semrush Rate Limits

Published rate limits for the Semrush API surface, read from the provider's API usage restrictions page. Replaces the 2026-05-04 bulk-sweep scaffold, whose header names and tier numbers were invented defaults. The real posture: a flat 10 requests per second and 10 concurrent requests per account across every Semrush API, per-method exceptions on the Listing Management API, and — critically — no rate-limit response headers of any kind.

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

It captures 13 rate-limit definitions, measuring requests_per_second, concurrent_requests, requests_per_month, and requests_per_minute.

The profile also includes response codes documented for throttled, quotaExceeded, serviceUnavailable, and serviceUnavailableLocal.

Tagged areas include Data, Search Engines, Rate Limiting, Quotas, and Throttling.

13 Limits Throttle: 429 Quota: 429
DataSearch EnginesRate LimitingQuotasThrottling

Limits

General request rate account
requests_per_second · second
10
General concurrency account
concurrent_requests · instant
10
Trends API request rate account
requests_per_second · second
10
Trends API monthly quota account
requests_per_month · month
Create Location account
requests_per_second · second
10
Update Location account
requests_per_second · second
10
Get Location account
requests_per_second · second
10
Get Locations account
requests_per_second · second
10
Get Categories account
requests_per_minute · minute
10
UpdateLocation (deprecated) account
requests_per_second · second
5
UpdateLocations (deprecated) account
requests_per_minute · minute
5
GetLocation (deprecated) account
requests_per_second · second
10
GetLocations (deprecated) account
requests_per_second · second
10

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