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: Keywords AI
providerId: keywordsai
created: '2026-06-20'
modified: '2026-06-20'
reconciled: false
tags:
- AI
- LLM
- Observability
- Gateway
- Monitoring
- Rate Limiting
- Quotas
- Throttling
description: >-
  Keywords AI authenticates all API calls with a Bearer API key and enforces
  account-level rate limits on the gateway and data endpoints, plus monthly
  usage quotas on logs and evaluation scores per plan tier. For gateway (proxy)
  traffic, effective throughput is also bounded by the rate limits of the
  underlying model provider being routed to. Specific per-endpoint
  request-per-minute values are not published in a single reference and are not
  reconciled in this artifact.
notes: >-
  Verify current limits against the Keywords AI / Respan documentation and the
  platform dashboard on reconciliation. Plan-level monthly quotas (logs and
  scores) are captured in plans/keywordsai-plans-pricing.yml. Throttled
  responses should be assumed to return HTTP 429.
sources:
- https://docs.keywordsai.co
- https://www.keywordsai.co/pricing
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
- name: Gateway Requests
  scope: account
  metric: requests
  limit: see provider documentation
  notes: Chat completions proxy; effective throughput also bounded by the routed model provider's limits.
- name: Data Endpoint Requests
  scope: account
  metric: requests
  limit: see provider documentation
  notes: Logging, prompts, threads, traces, evaluators, users, datasets, experiments endpoints.
- name: Monthly Logs Quota
  scope: account
  metric: logs
  limit: per plan tier
  notes: Free 100k/month; Team unlimited; Enterprise custom. Overage billed per 100k logs.
- name: Monthly Scores Quota
  scope: account
  metric: scores
  limit: per plan tier
  notes: Free 1k/month; Team 10k/month; Enterprise custom. Overage billed per 1k scores.
policies:
- name: Tiered Limits
  description: Quotas and limits increase across Free, Team, and Enterprise plans.
- name: Backoff Strategy
  description: Clients should implement exponential backoff with jitter and honor Retry-After on 429 responses.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com