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: Bot Butcher
providerId: bot-butcher
generated: '2026-09-04'
method: searched
source: https://botbutcher.com/documentation
created: '2026-05-04'
modified: '2026-09-04'
tags:
  - Bots
  - Spam Detection
  - Contact Forms
  - AI Classification
  - Security
  - Rate Limiting
description: >-
  Rate limiting posture for the Bot Butcher Classification API. Bot Butcher publishes NO rate
  limits. The API reference (https://botbutcher.com/documentation, HTTP 200) documents exactly two
  error responses — 400 malformed request and 401 unauthorized — and names no 429, no throttling
  window, no burst allowance and no rate-limit response headers. The pricing page
  (https://botbutcher.com/pricing, HTTP 200) publishes monthly volume bands that are PRICING
  tiers, not enforced ceilings. This file REPLACES a 2026-05-04 scaffold that asserted per-minute
  limits, burst ceilings, X-RateLimit-* headers and a 429 response, none of which the provider
  publishes.
limit_count: 0
limits: []
headers:
  documented: false
  note: >-
    No rate-limit response headers (X-RateLimit-*, RateLimit-*, Retry-After) are documented, and
    none were observed. Live header observation is not possible anonymously: the classify endpoint
    requires an x-api-key and an unauthenticated request is refused.
responseCodes:
  documented:
    - code: 400
      meaning: Malformed request — missing JSON payload value, missing message_id, unknown message_id, or missing required header.
    - code: 401
      meaning: Unauthorized — authentication failed.
  throttled: null
  note: No 429 or 503 response is documented for this API.
quotas:
  - scope: account
    metric: requests
    timeFrame: month
    limit: null
    note: >-
      Usage is metered and billed rather than capped. The first 10 requests each month are free;
      beyond that, requests are priced per the published graduated bands. No hard ceiling and no
      overage cutoff is published.
evidence:
  - url: https://botbutcher.com/documentation
    status: 200
    finding: Only 400 and 401 documented; no 429, no rate-limit headers, no throttling policy.
  - url: https://botbutcher.com/pricing
    status: 200
    finding: Monthly request bands are price tiers, not enforced limits.
  - url: https://api.botbutcher.com/
    status: 405
    finding: API host answers; root is POST-only, so no anonymous response headers to read.
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: info@apievangelist.com