Infrastructure
Rate Limits
API caps that restrict how many requests you can make per minute or day.
Also written as rate limiting, Rate Limit
- Messages
- 84
- Members using it
- 43
- First seen
- Nov 23, 2025
What it means
Restrictions imposed by AI providers on how frequently you can call their APIs within a given time window. When you hit rate limits, the API refuses new requests until the window resets, forcing developers to implement batching, queuing, or exponential backoff strategies to keep their apps running smoothly.
How it's used here
Members discuss navigating rate limits when building high-volume applications that make many API calls, often sharing strategies like batching requests or using custom wrappers to avoid hitting caps during intensive agent workflows.
Seen in the wild
“also for anyone who wanna use the new meta cli its basically just a wrapper for their api with less options, no batching, worse rate limits”
“where does custom create benefits. actually i can ask you specifically as think you mentioned it before. how you naviate rate limits?”
“Yeah I mean my app batches and parallelizes API calls, uses exponential backoff when approaching rate limits. We don’t hammer the API”
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