generated: '2026-10-09'
method: searched
source: https://api.elhub.no/intro
name: Elhub Rate Limits
note: api.elhub.no is a JavaScript-rendered portal; the intro text was read with a headless browser and is also present verbatim in the site bundle. The Settlement and FIS rows come from the provider's
  own OpenAPI contracts (429 responses), not prose docs. Contract-declared 429 behaviours (no numeric limit published) are kept under contract_signals, quoted from the OpenAPI files named in each row.
limit_count: 1
headers:
  retry_after: Retry-After (documented on Settlement API 429 responses)
  ratelimit_headers: none documented
exhaustion_status: 429
limits:
- name: Public API rate limit
  limit_text: Currently the rate limit is 5 calls per second per user.
  max: 5
  limit: 5
  window: 1 second
  scope: per-user (by client IP address)
  scope_text: The IP address of the user will be used for rate limiting, but will not be stored.
  plan: public (unauthenticated) APIs
  source: https://api.elhub.no/intro
contract_signals:
- name: Settlement API per-client rate limit
  scope: per-client
  endpoint: /settlement/v0/virtual-calculations
  status: 429
  headers:
  - Retry-After
  source: openapi/elhub-settlement-virtual-calculations-api-openapi.yml
  contract_text: Per-client rate limit exceeded. Retry after the period indicated by the `Retry-After` header.
- name: FIS token endpoint failed-login throttle
  scope: per-client
  endpoint: call_token
  status: 429
  source: openapi/elhub-flex-information-system-auth-api-openapi.yml
  contract_text: Returned after too many failures with the client credentials login.