Mention Me applies rate limiting to ensure we maintain a high quality of service for all users.

Rate limits are applied for the Merchant API.

Consumer & EntryPoint API Limits

No rate limiting is applied to the EntryPoint and Consumer APIs - however anti-gaming mechanisms are in place. These are confidential and are unlikely to be met in normal operation.

Merchant API Limits

The Merchant API applies rate limits over a 5 minute window. You may make as many as N requests in that 5 minute period.

e.g. if the limit is 100 you could:

• Make 20 requests every minute
• Make 100 requests in 1 one minute, then no more requests for 4 minutes

If you exceed the limit, a 429 error response will be returned.

We will return the following headers with each request (regardless of whether the limit is exceeded or not):

• X-RateLimit-Limit - what is the limit applied to this API endpoint?
• X-RateLimit-Remaining - how many requests can you make before you exceed the limit. If the number is 0, you will receive a 429 error
• X-RateLimit-Reset - the number of seconds before the rate limit resets

The documentation for each API describes the rate limit that applies to that endpoint.

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Hitting the limit?

If you're regularly hitting our rate limits, please speak to us - we can advise on optimal patterns to deploy or increase your limit depending on your use case.