name: CricAPI Rate Limits
description: >
  CricAPI enforces rate limits at the daily hit level, with each plan tier
  granting a fixed number of API calls per day. The legacy CricAPI platform
  allowed 100,000 hits per IP per hour with no account required. The current
  CricketData.org platform tracks usage per API key, and each API response
  includes hit-count tracking metadata so developers can monitor their
  consumption in real time. Overages are not charged; requests beyond the
  daily limit are rejected until the next day's quota resets.
specificationVersion: '0.1'
url: https://cricketdata.org/pricing/
limits:
  - name: Free Tier Daily Limit
    description: Maximum number of API calls allowed per day on the Lifetime Free plan.
    value: 100
    unit: hits/day
    scope: per-api-key
    plan: Lifetime Free

  - name: Plan S Daily Limit
    description: Maximum number of API calls allowed per day on the S plan.
    value: 2000
    unit: hits/day
    scope: per-api-key
    plan: Plan S

  - name: Plan M Daily Limit
    description: Maximum number of API calls allowed per day on the M plan.
    value: 10000
    unit: hits/day
    scope: per-api-key
    plan: Plan M

  - name: Plan L Daily Limit
    description: Maximum number of API calls allowed per day on the L plan.
    value: 100000
    unit: hits/day
    scope: per-api-key
    plan: Plan L

  - name: Plan U Daily Limit
    description: Unlimited API calls per day on the Unlimited plan.
    value: unlimited
    unit: hits/day
    scope: per-api-key
    plan: Plan U

  - name: Legacy Hourly Limit
    description: >
      The original CricAPI platform (cricapi.com, pre-2021) allowed up to
      100,000 hits per IP address per hour without authentication, targeting
      developers and high-performance use cases.
    value: 100000
    unit: hits/hour
    scope: per-ip
    plan: Legacy (cricapi.com)
notes:
  - Each API response includes hit-count data so developers can track quota consumption in real time.
  - One API call equals one hit regardless of the data returned.
  - Daily quotas reset every 24 hours.
  - Requests exceeding the daily limit are rejected; no overage charges apply.