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# Rate Limiting

To ensure a smooth experience for all Users, all our endpoint have a quota of number of requests per minute that your Service Account can make. If you go beyond this threshold, the request will return a 429 Error (Too Many requests)

The rate limit is based on Service Account and can differ per endpoint. 

By default, all endpoints have a quota of **500 requests per minute**. If an endpoint have a different quota, it is documented on its reference page.

## Rate limit Headers

Every API request returns header contains the following fields:

`X-RateLimit-Limit`: *Quota limit for this endpoint* \
`X-RateLimit-Remaining`: *Number of remaining API calls that you can do before a quota reset*\
`X-RateLimit-Reset`: *Number of seconds before the quota is reset to the limit*

In case of 429 errors, an additional Header is added to the response:

`Retry-After`: Number of seconds that you should wait before retrying the call to see it succeed.