Rate Limiting Information

Rate Limiting

Your query may be limited in the following circumstances:

  • You have reached your monthly spend limit.
  • You are using a demo key and have exceeded your demo usage allowance.
  • You are making too many calls per second.
  • You have hit your daily, weekly or monthly key quota limit.

See Throttling Your Queries for information on how to implement throttling to avoid hitting rate limiting errors.

Rate limit information in included in the HTTP response headers:

Header

Description

X-QPS-Allotted

The number of queries you are allowed to do per second.

X-QPS-Current

The number of queries you have run this second.

X-QPS-Live-Allotted

The number of live queries you are allowed to do per second.

X-QPS-Live-Current

The number of live queries you have run this second.

X-QPS-Demo-Allotted

The number of demo queries you are allowed to do per second.

X-QPS-Demo-Current

The number of demo queries you have run this second.

X-Demo-Usage-Allotted

The number of queries you can make with demo keys

X-Demo-Usage-Current

The number of queries you made with demo keys.

X-Demo-Usage-Expiry

The time (in UTC) when your demo allowance will expire.

X-APIKey-Quota-Allotted

Your API key’s quota limit.

X-APIKey-Quota-Current

Your API key’s used quota.

X-Quota-Reset

The time (in UTC) that your quota will be reset.

Example QPS Responses

Example Response: Error 403 - Per second limit reached (without live)

X-QPS-Current > X-QPS-Allotted

{
    "@http_status_code": 403, 
    "error": "Per second limit for total calls reached."
}

Example Response: Error 403 - Per second limit reached (with live)

X-QPS-Live-Current > X-QPS-Live-Allotted

{
    "@http_status_code": 403, 
    "error": "Per second limit for live calls reached."
}

Example Response: Error 403 - Per second limit reached on demo key

X-QPS-Demo-Current > X-QPS-Demo-Allotted

{
    "@http_status_code": 403, 
    "error": "Per second limit for demo calls reached."
}