# API rate limits

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/api-rate-limits/208405>\
**Category:** Development\
**Tags:** rest-api\
**Created:** [November 5, 2021, 10:27pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/api-rate-limits/208405 "2021-11-05T22:27:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![blake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/blake/32/157322_2.png) [@blake](https://meta.discourse.org/u/blake)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2021, 6:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/api-rate-limits/208405/4 "2021-11-08T18:10:43Z")

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> [@lstuartfry](#):
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> My team is actually going to lean on Discourse for hosting

👍

> [@lstuartfry](#):
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> Are there any avenues for viewing or tweaking the API limits if this is the route we go down?

If you are on enterprise we can tweak some of these limits for you as well as provide some api guidance so that we can reduce your api usage load.

What we recommend is to have your app that is making the API calls handle 429 errors and then check the `Retry-After` header that is received and this will let you know when you can start making requests again.

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