TheSportsDB · Rate Limits

Sportsdb Rate Limits

TheSportsDB enforces per-minute request rate limits that vary by subscription tier: 30 requests/minute on the Free tier, 100 requests/minute on the Single Developer tier, and 120 requests/minute on the Small Business tier. Exceeding the limit returns HTTP 429 and clients must wait one minute before resuming. Many V1 endpoints additionally cap the number of records returned on the Free tier; premium tiers raise or remove those data limits.

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

It captures 4 rate-limit definitions, measuring requests and records.

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

Tagged areas include Sports, Sports Data, Rate Limiting, Quotas, and Throttling.

4 Limits Throttle: 429
SportsSports DataRate LimitingQuotasThrottling

Limits

Free Tier Requests Per Minute account
requests
30
Free shared test key; most queries return a limited number of records.
Single Developer Requests Per Minute account
requests
100
Paid $9/month tier with full premium data and higher data limits.
Small Business Requests Per Minute account
requests
120
Paid $20/month tier with no limit on returned data and a private key.
Per-Endpoint Free Record Caps endpoint
records
see provider documentation
Free tier caps records per endpoint (e.g. searches limited to 1, lists higher); premium raises these.

Policies

Tiered Limits
Rate and data limits increase across Free, Single Developer, and Small Business tiers.
Retry After Throttle
On HTTP 429, clients must wait one minute before resuming requests.

Sources

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