Monthly Usage and Rate Limits

Monthly Usage

Monthly API limits are determined by the number of user licences an organisation has purchased. This monthly allowance will be refreshed on a rolling basis from the first time an API key is activated.

To see your current monthly usage, you can simply post your Username and Public API Key to https://enactapifd.lcp.uk.com/auth/usage. The post data will be identical to that used when requesting a Bearer Token (see Managing Bearer Tokens). Requests to the Usage or Bearer Token endpoints do not go towards your monthly usage.

Volume and Rate Limiting

When requesting date ranges, certain limits apply to ensure network traffic is kept to a reasonable limit. You will be notified with an error message from the API if you exceed this. For charts, requests will be capped to 1 year. For BOA data, requests will be capped to 1 day.

Most endpoints are rate limited to 5 calls per second, and 100 per minute. The Series endpoints are 10 calls per second and 200 per minute. Certain larger endpoints will be rate limited to 1 call every 5 seconds.