generated: '2026-08-14'
method: searched
source: https://help.backstory.ai/en/collections/19658946-mcp
limit_count: 0
note: >-
  Backstory publishes no rate limits. Every MCP client-setup article, the MCP
  overview, the API Key Management article and the pricing page were read; none
  names a request ceiling, a window, a burst allowance, a 429 behaviour or any
  RateLimit-* / X-RateLimit-* / Retry-After response header. Live probing could
  not observe headers either, because the only reachable endpoint answers 401
  before any quota is evaluated. An honest zero, not an unchecked field.
limits: []
response_headers:
  observed: []
  documented: []
  exhaustion_status: unknown
adjacent_quotas:
- name: API key pairs per organization
  limit: 5
  scope: per-organization
  kind: resource-count
  detail: >-
    A Backstory administrator may hold at most five active API key/secret pairs
    at a time in the Admin Panel. This is a credential quota, not a request rate
    limit, and is recorded here only so it is not mistaken for one.
  source: https://help.backstory.ai/en/articles/15252717-api-key-management
- name: Consumption allotment
  limit: null
  scope: per-organization
  kind: commercial-quota
  detail: >-
    Pricing is consumption-based: each connected person carries a pre-packaged
    allotment of "answers" that pools across the org. Exceeding it does not cut
    service off ("True Forward" — nothing shuts off, nothing is back-billed); the
    contract is resized at renewal. Commercial metering, not API throttling, and
    no numbers are published.
  source: https://www.backstory.ai/pricing
- name: Activity lookback window
  limit: 30 days
  scope: per-request
  kind: data-window
  detail: >-
    The ChatGPT and Gemini CLI setup articles both state a connected client can
    access "30 days of communications" for an account. A data-scope bound rather
    than a rate limit.
  sources:
  - https://help.backstory.ai/en/articles/13781010-connect-chatgpt-to-backstory
  - https://help.backstory.ai/en/articles/15252790-connect-gemini-cli-to-backstory
x-evidence:
- fetched: '2026-08-14'
  url: https://mcp.people.ai/mcp
  http_status: 401
  note: no rate-limit headers present on the anonymous challenge response