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: Chatbase
providerId: chatbase
created: '2026-06-20'
modified: '2026-06-20'
reconciled: false
tags:
- AI
- Chatbot
- AI Agent
- Customer Support
- Conversational AI
- Rate Limiting
- Quotas
- Throttling
description: >-
  Chatbase enforces account-level usage governance primarily through monthly
  message credits tied to the subscription plan (Free 50, Hobby 500, Standard
  4,000, Pro 15,000, Enterprise custom). Every AI response consumes credits,
  and per-response cost depends on the chosen model. In addition, the REST
  API applies request rate limiting per API key; specific per-endpoint
  request-per-minute values are not published and are not reconciled in this
  artifact. Training-data size and number of agents are also capped per plan.
notes: >-
  Verify current message-credit allotments, per-model credit costs, and any
  per-key request-per-minute limits on the Chatbase pricing and developer
  documentation pages during reconciliation. API access requires the Standard
  plan or higher.
sources:
- https://www.chatbase.co/pricing
- https://www.chatbase.co/docs/developer-guides/api-integration
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
- name: Monthly Message Credits
  scope: account
  metric: credits
  limit: plan-based (Free 50 / Hobby 500 / Standard 4,000 / Pro 15,000 / Enterprise custom)
  notes: Each AI response consumes credits; per-response cost depends on the model.
- name: API Requests Per Minute
  scope: api_key
  metric: requests
  limit: see provider documentation
  notes: REST API requests are rate limited per API key; exact RPM not published.
- name: AI Agents
  scope: account
  metric: agents
  limit: plan-based (Free 1; more on paid plans; extra agents available as add-on)
  notes: Number of agents is capped per plan.
- name: Training Data Size
  scope: account
  metric: bytes
  limit: plan-based (Free 400 KB / Hobby 10 MB / Standard 20 MB / Pro 40 MB)
  notes: Total size of training sources per account is capped per plan.
policies:
- name: Credit-Based Metering
  description: Usage is governed by monthly message credits that reset each billing cycle; auto-recharge add-on credits can extend capacity.
- name: Tiered Limits
  description: Credit allotments, agent counts, training size, and feature access (including API access) increase with the subscription tier.
- name: Backoff Strategy
  description: Clients should implement exponential backoff with jitter on HTTP 429 responses and honor any Retry-After header.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com