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: Sex Offenders API
providerId: sex-offenders-api
generated: '2026-08-28'
method: searched
source: >-
  www.crimeometer.com (product page, pricing, pricing-table, products overview, tos),
  the public Postman collection, and live unauthenticated probes of api.crimeometer.com
  on 2026-08-28.
modified: '2026-08-28'
tags:
  - Sex Offenders
  - Rate Limiting
  - Quotas
description: >-
  CrimeoMeter publishes no rate limits. THIS FILE REPLACES A SCAFFOLD: the prior version
  (method: generated, dated 2026-05-04) asserted 10 req/min and 1,000 req/month on a free
  tier, 100 req/min and 100,000 req/month on a professional tier, and a 1,000 req/min
  enterprise ceiling, together with X-RateLimit-* response headers. None of that is
  published by CrimeoMeter and none of it was observed on the wire. All of it is removed.
limit_count: 0
headers:
  observed: []
  documented: []
  note: >-
    No X-RateLimit-*, RateLimit-* or Retry-After header appeared on any live response.
    Responses carry only AWS API Gateway / CloudFront headers (x-amzn-requestid,
    x-amz-apigw-id, x-amz-cf-id, access-control-allow-origin).
responseCodes:
  throttled: unknown
  note: >-
    Not observable without a key. The edge answers every unauthenticated request with 403
    Forbidden, so the exhaustion status code cannot be established anonymously. AWS API
    Gateway usage plans conventionally return 429 with {"message":"Limit Exceeded"}, but
    CrimeoMeter does not document this and it is NOT asserted here.
limits: []
policies: []
evidence:
  - url: https://www.crimeometer.com/pricing
    status: 200
    note: Names two subscription tracks; publishes no quota, burst or rate.
  - url: https://www.crimeometer.com/sex-offenders-api
    status: 200
    note: Documents the request form and the x-api-key header; says nothing about limits.
  - url: https://api.crimeometer.com/v5/sex-offenders/records?zipcode=11212
    status: 403
    note: No rate-limit headers on the response.
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com