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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: EvolutionaryScale
providerId: evolutionaryscale
created: '2026-05-24'
modified: '2026-05-24'
reconciled: false
tags:
  - AI
  - Biology
  - Rate Limiting
  - Proteins
description: >
  EvolutionaryScale does not publish public rate-limit tables for the Forge API. The `esm` SDK's
  async clients (`async_generate`, `async_fold`, `batch_generate`, ...) imply server-side concurrency
  controls and request queueing. Limits are communicated to Forge beta participants individually and
  may be raised on request. AWS Marketplace deployments inherit AWS quota and instance-level
  concurrency limits.
sources:
  - https://forge.evolutionaryscale.ai
  - https://github.com/Biohub/esm
algorithm: undisclosed
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
  quotaExceeded: 429
limits:
  - tier: Forge Beta
    model: esm3-small-2024-08
    rpm: undisclosed
    notes: Concurrency and request-per-minute caps assigned per beta account.
  - tier: Forge Beta
    model: esm3-medium-2024-08
    rpm: undisclosed
    notes: Concurrency and request-per-minute caps assigned per beta account.
  - tier: Forge Beta
    model: esm3-large-2024-03
    rpm: undisclosed
    notes: 98B model — heavier per-request budget; limits set per account.
  - tier: Forge Beta
    model: esmc-300m-2024-12
    rpm: undisclosed
  - tier: Forge Beta
    model: esmc-600m-2024-12
    rpm: undisclosed
  - tier: Forge Beta
    model: esmc-6b-2024-12
    rpm: undisclosed
  - tier: AWS Marketplace
    model: any
    rpm: instance-bound
    notes: Effective rate limit is the throughput of the SageMaker / BioNeMo / NIM instance type and replica count.
quotas:
  - tier: Forge Beta
    type: tokens-per-day
    value: undisclosed
    notes: Token (residue) budgets per account; raised on request.