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: Meilisearch
providerId: meilisearch
created: '2026-05-04'
# Provenance stamped 2026-08-11: this artifact was written by the API Evangelist
# bulk sweep dated 2026-05-04, not harvested from the provider. See roadmap#35.
method: generated
modified: '2026-05-04'
reconciled: true
tags:
  - Rate Limiting
  - Search
description: Meilisearch Cloud throughput depends on plan and resource size.
sources:
  - https://www.meilisearch.com/pricing
  - https://www.meilisearch.com/docs/learn/security/master_api_keys
headers: {}
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
  - name: Search API
    scope: project
    metric: queries_per_second
    limit: scales with resource
  - name: Indexing API
    scope: project
    metric: documents_per_request
    limit: varies by request size
  - name: Concurrent indexing tasks
    scope: project
    metric: concurrent
    limit: 4