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Rate limiting limits the amount of requests that can be made within a specific timeframe by users, applications, or services. This helps protect your APIs, websites and backend services from excessive amounts of traffic, accidental usage and specific types of abuse.
You can have rate limits based on each individual user, IP address, API key or account. If there are too many requests made then the system may block the request, slow it down or give a response stating when the client can try again.
Why Rate Limiting is important
- Keeps your system stable.
- Helps stop abuse such as automated requests.
- Ensures fair use of resources.
- Helps control costs when using a paid API or AI model.
- Helps keep your service reliable.
Where Rate Limiting can be used
- Public/Internal APIs.
- LLM API’s & AI Inference.
- Too many login attempts.
- Quotas for subscription-based services.
- To help protect websites and apps from a large number of automated requests.
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