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: Orama
providerId: orama
created: '2026-06-21'
modified: '2026-06-21'
reconciled: false
tags:
- Search
- Vector Search
- RAG
- Open Source
- Search as a Service
- Rate Limiting
- Quotas
- Throttling
description: >-
  Orama Cloud advertises unlimited search queries, unlimited embeddings
  generation, and unlimited answer sessions across all plans. The primary
  metered quota is index updates (successful deployments), which is capped per
  plan - 150 per month on the Free tier, with higher allowances on paid tiers.
  Additional per-index limits apply to user segments and triggers. Specific
  per-tier throttling thresholds for write/management endpoints are not
  published and are not reconciled in this artifact. The open-source engine
  runs locally and is not rate limited.
notes: >-
  Verify current quotas at
  https://docs.orama.com/cloud/understanding-orama/pricing-limits during
  reconciliation. Search and answer endpoints authenticate with a public
  (read) API key via the api-key query parameter; management/ingestion
  endpoints authenticate with a private (write) API key via the Authorization
  bearer header.
sources:
- https://docs.orama.com/cloud/understanding-orama/pricing-limits
- https://docs.orama.com/cloud/data-sources/custom-integrations/rest-apis
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
- name: Search Queries
  scope: index
  metric: requests
  limit: unlimited
  notes: Unlimited search queries on all plans, including Free.
- name: Answer Sessions
  scope: index
  metric: sessions
  limit: unlimited
  notes: Unlimited answer (RAG) sessions and answers on all plans.
- name: Embeddings Generation
  scope: account
  metric: embeddings
  limit: unlimited
  notes: Unlimited embeddings generation on all plans.
- name: Index Updates
  scope: account
  metric: deployments
  limit: 150 per month (Free); higher on paid tiers
  notes: An index update is one successful deployment; the main metered quota.
- name: User Segments
  scope: index
  metric: segments
  limit: 5 (Free)
  notes: Per-index segment cap on the Free tier.
- name: Triggers
  scope: index
  metric: triggers
  limit: 3 (Free)
  notes: Per-index trigger cap on the Free tier.
policies:
- name: Tiered Limits
  description: Quotas (index updates, segments, triggers, analytics retention) scale from Free to Pro, Premium, and Enterprise.
- 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