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: Inworld AI
providerId: inworld
created: '2026-05-08'
# Provenance stamped 2026-08-11: this artifact was written by the API Evangelist
# bulk sweep dated 2026-05-08, not harvested from the provider. See roadmap#35.
method: generated
modified: '2026-05-08'
reconciled: partial
tags:
- AI
- Voice
- Characters
- Games
- Conversational
- Rate Limiting
- Quotas
- Throttling
description: >-
  Inworld throttles primarily through plan-tier credit budgets and per-tier feature gates
  (custom voices, workspace sharing). Specific HTTP RPS limits are not publicly documented.
notes: Plan tier credit balance is the primary scaling lever; HTTP RPS limits are not public.
sources:
- https://inworld.ai/pricing
- https://docs.inworld.ai/
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
- name: TTS Free Inclusion (On-Demand)
  scope: account
  metric: minutes
  limit: 40
  notes: ~40 minutes of TTS included on free tier.
- name: Custom Voices (Creator)
  scope: account
  metric: custom_voices
  limit: 100
- name: Custom Voices (Enterprise)
  scope: account
  metric: custom_voices
  limit: 3000
- name: HTTP Requests
  scope: account
  metric: requests
  limit: not publicly documented
  notes: Verify with Inworld support; standard 429 backoff applies.
policies:
- name: Backoff Strategy
  description: Clients should implement exponential backoff with jitter and honor any Retry-After header.
- name: Credit Monitoring
  description: Track credit burn against plan allocation and upgrade tier when approaching cap.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com