Rate limits

How Wire meters requests and what to do when you hit a limit.

Wire applies per-key rate limits to keep the service fast and fair. Limits scale with your plan.

When you're limited

A throttled request returns 429 with a Retry-After header indicating how many seconds to wait:

{ "status": "error", "error": { "code": "RATE_LIMITED", "message": "slow down" } }

Handling it

• Honor the Retry-After header and retry with exponential backoff.
• Spread bursts out rather than firing everything at once.
• Concurrency, not just request rate, counts toward your limit; keep in-flight tasks within your plan.

Need more?

Higher throughput comes with the paid plans, and Scale/Enterprise can negotiate custom limits. See pricing or email support@anakin.io.