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: GamerPower
providerId: gamerpower
created: '2026-05-30'
modified: '2026-05-30'
tags:
  - Games And Comics
  - Giveaways
  - Rate Limiting
  - Throttling
description: Machine-readable rate limit definitions for the GamerPower API. The public API documents a
  single recommended client-side ceiling of 4 requests per second; sustained traffic above that may be
  throttled at the upstream. No published per-key monthly quota exists on the direct API. A separate
  hosted offering on RapidAPI applies marketplace-tier limits which override these defaults.
headers:
  limit: null
  remaining: null
  reset: null
  retryAfter: Retry-After
  policy: null
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
  serviceUnavailable: 500
limits:
  - tier: free-public
    name: Recommended Client Ceiling
    scope: ip
    metric: requests_per_second
    limit: 4
    timeFrame: second
    applies:
      - GamerPower API
  - tier: rapidapi
    name: RapidAPI Marketplace Tier
    scope: api-key
    metric: requests_per_second
    limit: -1
    timeFrame: second
    applies:
      - GamerPower API
policies:
  - name: Client-Side Self-Throttling
    description: GamerPower asks consumers to keep traffic under 4 requests/second per client to avoid
      being throttled or banned at the edge.
  - name: Backoff Strategy
    description: Clients should implement exponential backoff with jitter when receiving 5xx responses,
      honoring the Retry-After header when present.
  - name: Attribution Requirement
    description: All consumers (personal and commercial) must visibly attribute GamerPower.com as the
      data source. This is a usage policy enforced socially, not via headers.
  - name: Marketplace Override
    description: Consumers using the RapidAPI marketplace listing are governed by RapidAPI's tier-based
      quotas, which override the recommended client-side ceiling.
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com