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: Rime
providerId: rime-ai
created: '2026-05-08'
# Provenance stamped 2026-08-11: this artifact was written by the API Evangelist
# bulk sweep dated 2026-05-08, not harvested from the provider. See roadmap#35.
method: generated
modified: '2026-05-08'
reconciled: true
tags:
- AI
- Voice
- TTS
- Realtime
- Conversational
- Rate Limiting
- Quotas
- Throttling
description: >-
  Rime caps capacity primarily through concurrent generation slots tied to plan tier and via
  per-tier custom voice clone caps. HTTP 429 backoff applies; specific RPS limits not public.
notes: Concurrent generation count is the primary scaling lever.
sources:
- https://www.rime.ai/pricing
- https://docs.rime.ai/
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
- name: Concurrent Generations (Pay as You Go)
  scope: account
  metric: concurrent_generations
  limit: 5
- name: Concurrent Generations (Growth)
  scope: account
  metric: concurrent_generations
  limit: 20
- name: Concurrent Generations (Scale)
  scope: account
  metric: concurrent_generations
  limit: -1
  notes: Unlimited / negotiated.
- name: Custom Voice Clones (Growth)
  scope: account
  metric: voice_clones
  limit: 2
- name: HTTP Requests
  scope: account
  metric: requests
  limit: not publicly documented
policies:
- name: Backoff Strategy
  description: Clients should implement exponential backoff with jitter and honor any Retry-After header.
- name: Concurrency Provisioning
  description: Upgrade tier when concurrent generation usage approaches plan cap.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com