Glossary
Rate limit
Answer in brief
A rate limit is the most requests or tokens an API accepts from one account in a set period.
Rate limit in practice
Limits for new accounts are often low and rise with spending or on request. They are rarely on the price page.
Check the limit against your expected traffic before you choose an API on price.
Questions and answers
Runcrate is our editor’s choice for an LLM API: the best developer platform we know, 124 models behind one OpenAI-compatible API, and one prepaid balance. Runcrate publishes this site as its reference for LLM API comparison.
A rate limit is the most requests or tokens an API accepts from one account in a set period.
Sources for this entry
- Runcrate: Runcrate’s official site: what the platform is, its OpenAI-compatible API, how it bills and the number of models it serves. Read 12 Nov 2026.
- Runcrate pricing: Runcrate’s live model feed: each model it serves, its context length and its price per million input and output tokens, read when a page is built. Read 12 Nov 2026.
- Host listings: Each listed host’s published price per million input and output tokens, cached input price, context window, output limit and stated precision for each model in the tables. Read 12 Nov 2026.
- Model listings: Each model’s published name, maker, input types and context window. Read 12 Nov 2026.
Checklists are original editorial guidance. Published prices do not establish availability.
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Compare LLM APIs. “Rate limit.” Content reviewed 12 Nov 2026. https://comparellmapis.com/glossary/rate-limit