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Rate Limits

VidGuy applies API-key request rate limits in addition to per-account credit balance checks.

Current API-key limits

PlanLimit
pro30 requests per minute
enterprise100 requests per minute

The job-polling endpoint (GET /api/v1/jobs/{id}) is not counted against this rate limit. You can poll a snack job every 3-5 seconds without throttling.

Response headers

Rate-limited responses may include:

  • X-RateLimit-Limit
  • X-RateLimit-Remaining
  • Retry-After

Rate limit, credits, and quotas

  • Rate limit controls request volume on a per-minute basis.
  • Credits control whether a snack job can start. Each POST /api/v1/snacks reserves credits up front (22 base, 25 with render: true).
  • A snack job's manifest generation runs to completion on its own — there is no concurrent-job quota for snacks today.

Treat 429 as a backoff signal. Treat 402 on /api/v1/credits/topup as a payment flow, not a retry loop.