Rate Limiting Strategy
Configuration
Calculated Limits
Requests per Minute
600
Requests per Hour
36,000
Requests per Day
864,000
Burst Capacity
100 requests
Maximum requests allowed in a short burst
Recommended HTTP Headers
X-RateLimit-Limit: 600 X-RateLimit-Remaining: 500 X-RateLimit-Reset: 1640000000 Retry-After: 10
Implementation Example
Popular API Rate Limits
GitHub API
5,000 requests/hour (authenticated)
Twitter API
300 requests/15 min (user auth)
OpenAI API
3,500 requests/min (GPT-4)
Stripe API
100 requests/sec (live mode)