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Nov 17, 2016 11:29 AM
Is the API Rate Limit tied to an API Key? Or to an APP ID? Or a combination of both?
I have developed several websites that pull and/or sync data with Airtable, and while none of them individually will generate more than 5 requests per second, I’m now concerned that (since they’re all using the same API Key) they will collectively generate more than 5 requests per second.
However, if the Rate Limit is tied to the API Key and APP ID, I have nothing to worry about as each application is built using a different Airtable Base.
Please advise! Thanks!

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Nov 20, 2016 05:57 AM
I would be interested in the official line too. I always figured it’s per API key…

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Nov 20, 2016 08:08 AM
Here’s the response I got:
Right now rate limiting is done by API key and source IP address. We have plans to change it to API key and base ID in the future.

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Feb 23, 2017 06:58 AM
How many requests per seconds has the plus and pro account?

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Feb 23, 2017 07:51 AM
AFAIK they’re all identical. Only the Enterprise version has custom limits.
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May 04, 2017 09:11 AM
It mean currently an User IP can request API 5 times/second, isn’t it?
Thank you!

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May 04, 2017 11:29 AM
You are correct sir.

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Nov 21, 2017 06:23 AM
Does it mean that in case of having 5 parallel calls to Airtable each executed in 200ms I then need to wait for 800ms to start requesting AirTable again?

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Nov 21, 2017 06:36 AM
You can do 5 calls in one second. Not 5 in 800ms. :slightly_smiling_face:
But you’ll get an error back when you’re too quick…

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Nov 21, 2017 07:31 AM
I meant does it matter if I’ll have those 5 calls evenly distributed over the second or I do all of them together?
