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: RealtyMole
providerId: realtymole
created: '2026-06-21'
modified: '2026-06-21'
reconciled: false
tags:
- Real Estate
- Property Data
- Rental Estimate
- Valuation
- Listings
- Rate Limiting
- Quotas
- Throttling
description: >-
  The legacy Realty Mole Property API is metered through RapidAPI, which
  enforces a monthly request quota per subscription tier plus a per-second
  rate limit set by the API publisher. Requests over the monthly quota are
  either billed as overage or hard-blocked depending on the tier. The
  successor RentCast API meters by monthly request quota per plan with
  per-request overage. Specific per-second and per-tier values are not
  reconciled in this artifact.
notes: >-
  Verify the current per-second rate limit and per-tier monthly quotas on the
  RapidAPI pricing/endpoints pages (legacy Realty Mole) or in the RentCast API
  dashboard (successor). Values change as accounts move between tiers.
sources:
- https://rapidapi.com/realtymole/api/realty-mole-property-api/pricing
- https://www.rentcast.io/api
- https://developers.rentcast.io/reference/realty-mole-migration-guide
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
- name: Monthly Request Quota
  scope: account
  metric: requests
  limit: see provider documentation
  notes: Per-tier monthly quota enforced by RapidAPI (legacy) / RentCast plan (successor).
- name: Per-Second Rate Limit
  scope: account
  metric: requests
  limit: see provider documentation
  notes: RapidAPI publisher-set requests-per-second cap on the Realty Mole API.
- name: Overage
  scope: account
  metric: requests
  limit: per-request overage above quota
  notes: Above-quota requests billed per request on paid tiers, or blocked on free tier.
policies:
- name: Tiered Quotas
  description: Monthly request allotments increase across subscription tiers; overage rate decreases.
- name: Backoff Strategy
  description: Clients should implement exponential backoff with jitter and honor Retry-After on 429 responses.
- name: Migration
  description: Realty Mole is legacy; migrate to RentCast (api.rentcast.io/v1) for current limits and support.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com