Rate Limits
Your requests to the API will be rate limited, based on the limit specified in your plan. Rate limits are specified in rps (requests per second) and your request rate is measured across a one second window.
E.g. a rate limit of 50 rps means you can make 50 requests in a second.
The rate limit applies to your entire Organization as a whole, regardless of IP address or API Token. If you exceed your rate limit, requests may be rejected with the 429 Too Many Requests response code until the rate limit resets at the start of the next window.
From time-to-time we may introduce additional temporary rate limits to ensure the reliability of our service is maintained.
Concurrent Requests
Your rate limit controls how many requests per second your organisation can make, but it does not limit how many of those requests can be in-flight simultaneously. Sending a large number of concurrent requests — even within your rps limit — can cause bursts that exceed your limit, result in 429 errors, and put unnecessary pressure on the API.
We recommend limiting the number of concurrent requests your application makes at any one time. A good rule of thumb is to keep concurrent requests well below your rps limit, and to prefer sequential or lightly-concurrent patterns when fetching data in bulk.
If you are building a system that needs to make many requests (for example, fetching data across a large number of locations or date ranges), consider:
Using a queue or worker pool with a fixed concurrency limit rather than parallelising all requests at once
Adding a small delay between requests if you are iterating sequentially
Implementing retry logic with exponential backoff to handle any
429responses gracefully
See Retrying Failed Requests for guidance on backoff and retry behaviour.
Retrying Failed Requests
Please ensure you are using appropriate retries and exponential backoff's to work within the rate limits. Please see the following page with advice on retrying failed requests.
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