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Yummly Rate Limits

HISTORICAL / DEPRECATED. The Yummly Recipe API's usage limits were expressed as monthly call allowances tied to each developer plan rather than as per-second throttles: a free evaluation cap of roughly 500 calls, a Lite tier of about 250,000 calls/month, and a Plus tier of about 4,000,000 calls/month, with per-call overage billing above the allowance. These quotas applied to the Search Recipes, Get Recipe, and Metadata endpoints. The developer program is deprecated and the api.yummly.com endpoints are offline, so none of these limits are enforced or obtainable today; they are recorded for archival reference.

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

It captures 4 rate-limit definitions, measuring requests.

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

Tagged areas include Recipes, Food, Recipe Search, Deprecated, and Historical.

4 Limits Throttle: 429
RecipesFoodRecipe SearchDeprecatedHistoricalRate LimitingQuotas

Limits

Free Evaluation Allowance account
requests
~500 total (historical)
Evaluation cap for testing; no longer available.
Lite Plan Monthly Allowance account
requests
~250000 per month (historical)
Overage billed at ~$0.002 per additional call.
Plus Plan Monthly Allowance account
requests
~4000000 per month (historical)
Overage billed at ~$0.001 per additional call.
Request Rate Throttle account
requests
not published
No documented per-second/per-minute rate limit; usage governed by monthly plan allowance.

Policies

Deprecated Program
The Yummly developer API program is deprecated; new signups were closed and the api.yummly.com endpoints are offline. No limits are enforceable today.
Attribution Requirement
All historical plans required displaying Yummly Attribution alongside recipe data returned by the API.

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