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: Geocode Earth
providerId: geocode-earth
created: '2026-06-21'
modified: '2026-06-21'
reconciled: false
tags:
- Geocoding
- Address Autocomplete
- Reverse Geocoding
- Mapping
- Pelias
- Rate Limiting
- Quotas
- Throttling
description: >-
  Geocode Earth enforces two complementary limits per account: a monthly
  request allowance tied to the subscription plan, and a per-second request
  rate cap. Paid plans include up to 10 requests per second (Lite, Basic)
  or 20 requests per second (Advanced), with higher caps negotiated on the
  Custom enterprise plan. Specific reconciled per-account values should be
  confirmed against the current pricing page and account dashboard.
notes: >-
  Per-second and monthly limits scale with the plan; verify exact values
  on the pricing page and in the account dashboard during reconciliation.
sources:
- https://geocode.earth/pricing/
- https://geocode.earth/docs/
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
- name: Requests Per Second (Lite / Basic)
  scope: account
  metric: requests
  limit: up to 10 per second
  notes: Per-second cap on the Lite and Basic monthly plans.
- name: Requests Per Second (Advanced)
  scope: account
  metric: requests
  limit: up to 20 per second
  notes: Per-second cap on the Advanced monthly plan.
- name: Monthly Request Allowance
  scope: account
  metric: requests
  limit: see plan (150K / 400K / 2M / custom)
  notes: Included monthly request volume varies by subscription tier.
- name: Custom / Enterprise Limits
  scope: account
  metric: requests
  limit: negotiated
  notes: Per-second and monthly limits raised under a Custom enterprise agreement.
policies:
- name: Tiered Limits
  description: Both per-second rate and monthly allowance increase as accounts move from Lite to Basic to Advanced to Custom.
- name: Backoff Strategy
  description: Clients should implement exponential backoff with jitter on HTTP 429 responses and stay within the plan's requests-per-second cap.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com