Rate Limits

Learn about Tavily’s API rate limits for both development and production environments.

We offer two types of rate limits based on the environment associated with your API key.

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Environment	Requests per minute (RPM)
Development	100
Production	1,000

Crawl Endpoint Rate Limits

The crawl endpoint has a separate rate limit that applies to both development and production keys:

Environment	Requests per minute (RPM)
Development	100
Production	100

Research Endpoint Rate Limits

The research endpoint has a separate rate limit that applies to both development and production keys for creating research tasks. Note that polling requests to retrieve the status of ongoing research tasks follow the default rate limits as decribed above.

Environment	Requests per minute (RPM)
Development	20
Production	20

Usage Endpoint Rate Limits

The usage endpoint has a separate rate limit that applies to both development and production keys:

Environment	Requests per 10 minutes
Development	10
Production	10

Handling Rate Limit Responses

When you exceed the rate limit, the API returns a 429 Too Many Requests response with a retry-after header indicating the number of seconds to wait before making another request.

HTTP/2 429 Too Many Requests
retry-after: 60
{
  "error": "Your request has been blocked due to excessive requests. Please reduce the rate of requests."
}

We recommend implementing retry logic that respects the retry-after header value to automatically handle rate limiting in your application.

1. Access to production keys requires either an active Paid Plan or PAYGO enabled. More information can be found here.
2. When using the REST API, ensure you include your API key in the header to apply the correct rate limits.