Does a call to the API affects on automation counter?

Drew_S · ‎Mar 11, 2021

We have the limit of 50 000 automation runs in our plan. Does this limit includes API calls?

ScottWorld · ‎Mar 11, 2021

Welcome to the community, @Drew_S!

No, API calls do not count towards your automation runs.

Although there are rate limits:

The API is limited to 5 requests per second per base. If you exceed this rate, you will receive a 429 status code and will need to wait 30 seconds before subsequent requests will succeed.

The official JavaScript client has built-in retry logic.

If you anticipate a higher read volume, we recommend using a caching proxy. This rate limit is the same for all plans and increased limits are not currently available.

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ScottWorld · ‎Mar 11, 2021

Welcome to the community, @Drew_S!

No, API calls do not count towards your automation runs.

Although there are rate limits:

The API is limited to 5 requests per second per base. If you exceed this rate, you will receive a 429 status code and will need to wait 30 seconds before subsequent requests will succeed.

The official JavaScript client has built-in retry logic.

If you anticipate a higher read volume, we recommend using a caching proxy. This rate limit is the same for all plans and increased limits are not currently available.

Bill_French · ‎Mar 11, 2021

Although, it appears lots of API calls may affect your own user’s performance. Hard to fathom why, but Airtable support has said exactly this.