Rate Limits

Terminal enforces API Rate Limits to protect against traffic spikes impacting our system and other Terminal customers.

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Global Rate Limits

Every endpoint enforces the following rate limits:

• Per Connection
  • Each connection token may make 100 API requests per second
• Per Application
  • Each application may make 400 API requests per second

This means that if you have multiple connections, you may make up to 100 requests per second per connection with a maximum of 400 requests per second across all connections.

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Handling Rate Limit Errors

When you exceed the rate limit, you will receive a 429 Too Many Requests error. The response body will contain a Retry-After header with the number of seconds you should wait before retrying the request.

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Example

HTTP/1.1 429 Too Many Requests
Retry-After: 0.62
Content-Type: application/json
Body: {
  "message": "Too Many Requests",
  "detail": "API rate limit exceeded - please try again in 0.62 s"
}