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Wolframalpha Rate Limits
Wolfram|Alpha publishes a non-commercial allowance of 2,000 API calls per account per month across the API family but does not publish per-second or per-minute throttling rates, response codes, or rate-limit headers in the public API reference. Query-shaping is exposed through per-request timeout parameters (scantimeout, podtimeout, formattimeout, parsetimeout, totaltimeout) rather than request-rate limits. Quantitative throttling values must be requested from Wolfram Research; the entries here capture only what is publicly documented.
| Wolframalpha Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for [Wolfram | Alpha](https://apis.io/providers/wolframalpha/) on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Rate Limits specification. |
It captures 2 rate-limit definitions, measuring requests_per_month and varies.
The profile also includes 2 backoff/retry policies defined.
Tagged areas include AI, Computational Knowledge, and Rate Limiting.
2 Limits
AIComputational KnowledgeRate Limiting
Limits
Non-Commercial Monthly Allowance account
2000
Immediate free access threshold across the Wolfram|Alpha API family for non-commercial use; documented on the Wolfram|Alpha API portal.
Standard / Custom API Throttling account
not publicly documented; contact Wolfram sales for paid-tier throttling specifics
Wolfram does not publish per-second/per-minute throttling values for paid Standard or Custom API tiers.
Policies
Per-Request Timeouts
Each API call accepts scantimeout (default 3.0s), podtimeout (default 4.0s), formattimeout (default 8.0s), parsetimeout (default 5.0s), and totaltimeout (default 20.0s) parameters; these shape per-call processing time rather than request rate.
Terms of Use
Use of the Full Results API and the broader Wolfram|Alpha API family is subject to the Wolfram|Alpha API Terms of Use; sustained or abusive usage patterns are governed contractually rather than by published numeric rate limits.