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# Rate Limiting

> We use rate limiting to safeguard the stability of our API.

## Limits

Rate limits are evaluated over a 60-second window.

| Request type                   | API key limit  | Account limit  |
| ------------------------------ | -------------- | -------------- |
| Failed authentication attempts | 10 per minute  | Not applicable |
| GET requests                   | 100 per minute | 300 per minute |
| POST, PUT, DELETE requests     | 20 per minute  | 60 per minute  |

## How limits are applied

Authenticated requests use two buckets: one for the API key and one for the authenticated account.

The account limit is tracked separately for each account, route, and HTTP method.

The response headers show the most restrictive active limit for that request.

Authentication uses a separate limiter, and only failed login attempts count toward it.

Any request over the limit returns a `429 Too Many Requests` response.

## Rate limit headers

Responses include standard rate limit headers.

| Header                | Description                                                                    |
| --------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| `RateLimit-Policy`    | The current request limit and time window                                      |
| `RateLimit-Limit`     | The maximum number of requests allowed in the active window                    |
| `RateLimit-Remaining` | The number of requests still available in the active window                    |
| `RateLimit-Reset`     | The number of seconds until the window resets                                  |
| `Retry-After`         | Returned on `429` responses with the number of seconds to wait before retrying |

Example response headers:

```http theme={null}
RateLimit-Policy: 100;w=60
RateLimit-Limit: 100
RateLimit-Remaining: 30
RateLimit-Reset: 53
```