ZotGPT (UC Irvine) · Rate Limits

Zotgpt Rate Limits

UC Irvine publishes no numeric request-rate table for either ZotGPT API — no requests-per-minute, no tokens-per-minute, no burst ceiling. What it publishes instead is a SPEND ceiling: usage is governed by dollar-denominated credits, per-key spend limits, and workspace budget enforcement, tiered by affiliation and by whether a funding source has been validated. That is a meaningful design choice rather than an omission — for an internal AI utility the scarce resource is budget, not concurrency, and metering in dollars lets one control surface span models whose per-token costs differ by an order of magnitude.

Zotgpt Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for ZotGPT (UC Irvine) on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Rate Limits specification.

It captures 6 rate-limit definitions, measuring usd-spend, usd-credits, usd-budget, and requests-per-minute.

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

Tagged areas include Generative AI, Rate Limiting, Budget, and Higher Education.

6 Limits Throttle: 429
Generative AIRate LimitingBudgetHigher Education

Limits

Gateway virtual key spend limit key
usd-spend
per-key limit set by the key owner in the Gateway workspace
Documented as "budget enforcement and per-key spend limits available." The caller sets it; the workspace bounds it.
Gateway Free Tier credit user
usd-credits
50
"$50 free credits for testing," affiliation-gated.
Gateway Standard Tier budget account
usd-budget
higher, KFS-validated
Chargeback to a campus financial account raises the ceiling.
Gateway Advanced Research budget account
usd-budget
high-limit, case-validated
Reserved for validated research use cases.
Deprecated Azure API credit user
usd-credits
200
"$200 in initial API credits," faculty and staff only. Being retired.
Request rate client
requests-per-minute
not published
No RPM/TPM figure appears anywhere in ZotGPT documentation. Upstream vendor limits apply through the gateway.

Policies

Backoff strategy
Exponential backoff with jitter on 429; honor Retry-After where the upstream provider sets it.
Budget exhaustion
Spend exhaustion is the primary throttle. Request a tier upgrade with a KFS account rather than retrying.

Sources