specification: API Commons Rate Limits
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/RateLimits
provider: AK Steel Holding
providerId: ak-steel-holding
created: '2026-05-04'
modified: '2026-08-30'
generated: '2026-08-30'
method: searched
source: >-
  Live probes 2026-08-30 of every host named in apis.yml. No AK Steel host
  resolves; the successor site www.clevelandcliffs.com serves no developer
  documentation and therefore no published limits or rate-limit response headers.
reconciled: true
tags:
  - Steel
  - Manufacturing
  - Metals
  - Rate Limiting
description: >-
  AK Steel Holding operates no public API and has not since the 2020-03-13
  acquisition by Cleveland-Cliffs Inc., so there is no rate-limit policy, no
  documented quota, and no runtime rate-limit header to record. An honest zero.
limit_count: 0
limits: []
headers: []
notes: >-
  CORRECTION 2026-08-30 — this file previously carried a synthetic "Not
  applicable" limits row written by the 2026-05-04 bulk sweep, and a
  responseCodes block asserting 429/503 behaviour for an API that does not exist.
  Both have been removed: nothing can be observed about the throttling behaviour
  of an endpoint that was never published.
policies:
  - name: Successor entity
    description: >-
      Any integration request for former AK Steel product lines goes to
      Cleveland-Cliffs Inc., the successor entity, through its sales
      organisation. Cleveland-Cliffs is profiled separately as cleveland-cliffs.
evidence:
  - url: https://ir.aksteel.com/
    status: <no response>
    note: DNS NOERROR with no address record
  - url: https://www.clevelandcliffs.com/api-docs
    status: 404
sources:
  - https://www.clevelandcliffs.com/
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com