# Provenance stamped 2026-10-07 (roadmap#943): written by an API Evangelist sweep (dated 2026-05-16 by the file itself), not
# harvested from the provider. `method: generated` so the economics campaign may replace it with a
# dated, verbatim transcription; every figure below is unverified until it does.
method: generated
generated: '2026-05-16'
apiCommonsRateLimits: '0.1'
providerId: frostbyte
provider:
  name: Frostbyte
  url: https://api-catalog-three.vercel.app/
modified: '2026-05-16'
reconciled: false
description: |
  Frostbyte does not publish explicit request-per-second or concurrency
  ceilings. Throughput is governed by the credit-balance quota plus
  platform-wide fair-use enforcement. When a request is unauthenticated
  or the key has insufficient credits, the gateway returns HTTP 402
  Payment Required with x402 USDC-on-Base payment details.

policies:
  - id: free-tier-credit-quota
    description: Default credit allowance issued on key creation.
    scope: per-api-key
    quotas:
      - dimension: requests
        unit: credit
        included: 200
        period: per-key
        notes: '1 credit consumed per request for most services.'
    enforcement:
      style: quota
      on_exceeded:
        http_status: 402
        body_indicator: x402 payment details (USDC on Base)
        retry_after: null

  - id: screenshot-credit-quota
    description: Smaller dedicated allowance for the Screenshot API.
    scope: per-api-key
    apis:
      - screenshot
    quotas:
      - dimension: requests
        unit: credit
        included: 50
        period: per-key
    enforcement:
      style: quota
      on_exceeded:
        http_status: 402
        body_indicator: x402 payment details (USDC on Base)

  - id: free-credit-expiry
    description: Free credits expire after 30 days; topping up extends to 90 days.
    scope: per-api-key
    quotas:
      - dimension: credit-validity
        included: 30
        unit: day
        period: per-key
        notes: 'Topping up with USDC on Base extends validity to 90 days.'

unpublished:
  - requests-per-second
  - requests-per-minute
  - concurrency
  - burst

notes: |
  Per-second throughput, concurrency, and per-minute burst limits are not
  published as part of the public catalog. Treat this profile as an upper
  bound described by credit quotas and the documented 402 / x402 payment
  fallback path.