Trading Economics · Rate Limits

Tradingeconomics Rate Limits

Trading Economics documents a general limitation of 2 requests per second on the REST API, with per-call row caps rather than daily quotas - a maximum of 10,000 rows per historical data call and 1,000 rows per economic calendar call - and a 260-character limit on request URLs. Overall request volumes depend on the subscription plan, with higher tiers allowing greater volumes. Trial accounts are capped at 100,000 data points and 100 data requests.

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

It captures 5 rate-limit definitions, measuring requests, rows, characters, and data_points.

The profile also includes 3 backoff/retry policies defined.

Tagged areas include Economic Indicators, Interest Rates, Macroeconomics, Financial Data, and Rate Limiting.

5 Limits
Economic IndicatorsInterest RatesMacroeconomicsFinancial DataRate LimitingQuotasThrottling

Limits

Requests Per Second account
requests
2 per second
General limitation across the REST API, documented on the rate limits page.
Historical Rows Per Call request
rows
10000
Single API calls for historical data return at most 10,000 rows; page with date ranges.
Calendar Rows Per Call request
rows
1000
Economic Calendar calls return at most 1,000 rows per request.
URL Length request
characters
260
One API call is limited to URLs of 260 characters; batch fewer countries/indicators per call.
Trial Quota account
data_points
100000 data points and 100 requests
Applies to trial users only, per the pricing page.

Policies

Plan-Based Volumes
Specific request volumes depend on the subscription plan; higher-tier plans allow greater request volumes and more frequent access.
Pagination by Date Range
Work within the 10,000-row historical and 1,000-row calendar caps by slicing requests into date ranges.
Backoff Strategy
Stay under 2 requests per second; implement client-side spacing and retry with backoff on throttle responses.

Sources