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: Financial Modeling Prep
providerId: financial-modeling-prep
created: '2026-05-04'
modified: '2026-07-22'
generated: '2026-07-22'
method: searched
source: https://site.financialmodelingprep.com/pricing.md
tags:
- Financial Data
- Market Data
- Rate Limiting
- Quotas
description: Published Financial Modeling Prep API-call limits per plan tier, from the pricing reference. FMP does
  not publicly document rate-limit response headers or the rejection status code; no header signaling is asserted
  here.
headers: {}
limits:
- tier: basic-free
  name: Basic (free) daily quota
  scope: api-key
  metric: requests_per_day
  limit: 250
  timeFrame: day
  applies:
  - Financial Modeling Prep stable API
- tier: starter
  name: Starter per-minute limit
  scope: api-key
  metric: requests_per_minute
  limit: 300
  timeFrame: minute
  applies:
  - Financial Modeling Prep stable API
- tier: premium
  name: Premium per-minute limit
  scope: api-key
  metric: requests_per_minute
  limit: 750
  timeFrame: minute
  applies:
  - Financial Modeling Prep stable API
- tier: ultimate
  name: Ultimate per-minute limit
  scope: api-key
  metric: requests_per_minute
  limit: 3000
  timeFrame: minute
  applies:
  - Financial Modeling Prep stable API
policies:
- name: Trailing 30-day bandwidth consumption
  description: FMP applies a trailing 30-day bandwidth consumption policy per the FAQ; plan add-ons for extra bandwidth
    and API calls can be purchased from the customer dashboard.