# Rate limits for API users

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/rate-limits-for-api-users/63328>\
**Category:** Development\
**Tags:** rest-api\
**Created:** [May 24, 2017, 11:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rate-limits-for-api-users/63328 "2017-05-24T23:58:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![AstonJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/astonj/32/215041_2.png) [@AstonJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AstonJ)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2017, 5:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rate-limits-for-api-users/63328/4 "2017-05-25T17:21:58Z")

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I’m not too bothered by validations Sam, but by-passing rate limits for specific accounts could be helpful.

Does the response include the specific error code if rate limits have been by-passed? That could be helpful if there’s no chance of including an option to by-pass..

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