Counting Calls for the Rate Limit

API and Webhooks
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Description
The new rate limit are per request type. As a business account, does this mean that I can make, all in one second, 80 Light requests, 60 medium requests and 40 heavy requests? Or if I make 40 heavy requests can I only make 40 more light requests in that same second?

Thanks!

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Hey @NGPVANEveryAction,

That is a good question, I will confirm with our team.

Thanks,
Tommy

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Hey @NGPVANEveryAction,

Yes this is possible.

Thanks,
Tommy

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You are saying that the first scenario with a total of 180 requests in a second spread across the levels would be acceptable?

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Hey @NGPVANEveryAction,

In theory it would work. Are you needing to make that many requests in a second?

-Tommy

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Hi @tommy,

We do not plan on using 180 requests a second. This is just an exercise to understand how your limits our built so that we can build our API batch processor to work efficiently but always below the limit. If you are interested:

  • We will never come even remotely close of hitting the “light” rate limit of 80 calls/s
  • Until webhook retries are re-enabled, we will be making a good number of “medium” calls. It is highly unlikely we would ever have close to 60 calls/s (and we will have an internal batch processor that will keep us from exceeding that rate) but we try to plan for peak usage, so knowing that we have the full 60 medium calls per second available to us even if there are light or heavy calls that also happen that second is helpful.
  • We will have much fewer heavy calls and no resource-intensive calls.

Webhooks are a great way to build an integration, but our clients rely on our features to work 100% of the time. Without retries enabled we have to build API requests into our application as a fail-safe. We will keep those under the rate limits, but there will be a good number of calls.

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Thanks for the info! :slight_smile:

-Tommy