API Rate Limits - Request Quotas & Throttling

Rate limits are counted per apiKey and by endpoint.

Limits

These endpoints allow higher throughput:

Limit: 10 requests / second

Everything else (metadata, fixtures list, mapping, settlements, historical, media redirects): Limit: 100 requests / minute

Every authenticated response includes:

When limited (429), responses also include:

Requests rejected for authentication (401) are turned away before the limiter runs and carry no rate-limit headers.

You’ll receive:

Example:

{
  "error": 429,
  "message": "rate limit exceeded",
  "code": "rate_limited",
  "retryAfterSec": 1
}