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Rate limits and quotas

Per-second limits, monthly quotas and the RateLimit headers.

Each key has a per-second limit (one-second fixed windows) and a monthly call quota set by your plan. See pricing for the numbers.

Every response carries:

RateLimit-Limit: 5
RateLimit-Remaining: 4
RateLimit-Reset: 1

Over the per-second limit you get 429 with type rate-limited and a Retry-After header. On the Free plan, using up the monthly quota returns 429 quota-exceeded until the next calendar month (UTC); paid plans keep working and bill the overage.

MCP tool calls count exactly like REST calls.