What is a rate limit? What are requests per minute?

What is a rate limit? What are requests per minute?

A rate limit is a limit on the number of times you can make a request to our API within a given time span. Limited and Standard subscribers are limited to the number of requests they can make per minute while Premium subscribers have unlimited requests.

Please refer to our Pricing Table for more information.

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