generated: '2026-09-17'
method: derived
source: openapi/meddra-api-openapi.yml
docs: https://www.meddra.org/meddra-apis
note: 'The MedDRA API DOES throttle and says so in its own contract: 16 of the 16 operations declare a 429 response
  whose description reads "The throttling limit on this API has been exceeded. Please review the MedDRA API documentation
  on throttling limits." The numbers, windows and scope of those limits are in the programmer guides behind the subscriber
  login at https://www.meddra.org/private/api-info and are not published, so no limit is recorded here. No RateLimit-*
  / X-RateLimit-* / Retry-After header is declared in the contract or returned on the anonymous probes we could make.
  This is an honest zero: the mechanism is documented, the values are gated.'
limit_count: 0
limits: []
headers:
  limit: null
  remaining: null
  reset: null
  retryAfter: null
  policy: null
  observed: []
  note: No rate-limit headers declared in the OpenAPI; none observed on GET /api/status (HTTP 200) or on the 401 responses.
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
evidence:
- url: https://mapisbx.meddra.org/swagger/v1/swagger.json
  status: 200
  note: 429 declared on all 16 operations with the throttling-limit description.
- url: https://mapisbx.meddra.org/api/status
  status: 200
  note: No rate-limit headers in the response.
- url: https://www.meddra.org/private/api-info
  status: 200
  note: Subscriber-only page ("Login for detailed API information"); the throttling numbers live behind it.