API Rate Limits

Comments focus on rate limiting in APIs and services, including questions about their existence, strictness, specific quotas, and implementation concerns.

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IMHO EasyList OpenRouter REST LinkedIn API UDP IP rate limit rate limit limiting limits quota throttling unlimited requests bandwidth

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Tepix Dec 4, 2015 View on HN

They enforce certain rate limits. Check their website.

owenpalmer Dec 30, 2024 View on HN

Do they have really strict rate limits? How much did you use it?

bambax Oct 7, 2014 View on HN

Any kind of rate limitations we should be made aware of?

geeio Apr 2, 2017 View on HN

I'd hope they have some sort of rate limiting built in

apearson Jul 5, 2018 View on HN

I would assume they have rate limiting for all clients if it affects them that much

osrec Apr 25, 2020 View on HN

Nice work! What sort of rate limits do you impose on the API?

slig Oct 23, 2012 View on HN

I suppose you'd get rate limited.

radq May 29, 2023 View on HN

Sounds like they don't have rate limiting implemented? That seems odd, and it's also surprising it isn't talked about in the post.

dspillett Feb 11, 2022 View on HN

You might want to rate limit that if you don't magically have free unlimited bandwidth quota.

Jordan-117 Oct 4, 2025 View on HN

Current limit seems to be 100 per rolling 24 hour period, so not unlimited but definitely huge given the compute costs.