name: Automation Preflight API API Rate Limits
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: TinyOps Studio LLC
providerId: automation-preflight-api
created: '2026-08-09'
modified: '2026-08-09'
generated: '2026-08-09'
method: searched
tags:
  - Automation
  - Developer Tools
description: >-
  Access to the Automation Preflight API is metered as a purchased call
  allowance rather than a per-second rate. A purchase grants 500 successful
  analyses usable for 30 days, and quota is decremented only after a successful
  analysis. Remaining allowance is returned on every call in the
  X-TinyOps-Quota-Remaining header. A separate, unpublished service rate limit
  also returns 429 on the open (unauthenticated) endpoint.
sources:
  - https://tinyopsstudio.com/automation-preflight-api
  - https://tinyopsstudio.com/assets/automation-preflight-api-openapi.json
headers:
  quotaLimit: X-TinyOps-Quota-Limit
  quotaRemaining: X-TinyOps-Quota-Remaining
  requestId: X-Request-ID
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
  - name: Direct access purchased allowance
    scope: api_key
    metric: successful_analyses
    limit: 500
    timeFrame: 30 days
    applies_to: POST /direct/analyze
    note: >-
      Sold as a $19 pack of 500 successful analyses. The 30-day access period
      begins at purchase. A call consumes quota only after a successful
      analysis, so 4xx responses are not charged.
  - name: Service rate limit
    scope: caller
    metric: requests
    limit: null
    timeFrame: unpublished
    applies_to: POST /analyze, POST /acceptance-pack
    note: >-
      Both OpenAPI contracts declare a 429 "Rate limit exceeded" response on the
      open endpoints, but no numeric threshold or window is published. Recorded
      as present-but-unquantified rather than inferred.
quota_accounting: successful-only
gaps:
  - The service rate limit is declared in the contract (429) but never quantified.
  - No documented Retry-After header on 429.