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: Soundcharts
providerId: soundcharts
created: '2026-06-21'
modified: '2026-06-21'
reconciled: false
tags:
- Music
- Analytics
- Market Intelligence
- Metadata
- Streaming
- Charts
- Rate Limiting
- Quotas
- Throttling
description: >-
  The Soundcharts API enforces a per-minute request rate limit that is shared
  across all subscription tiers, on top of a monthly included-request quota
  that varies by plan. Soundcharts publishes that the rate limit is the same
  for all plans (on the order of several thousand requests per minute) and
  that monthly volumes range from roughly 500,000 to 60M+ requests. Specific
  numeric values are sales-led and not reconciled in this artifact.
notes: >-
  Public sources cite a shared per-minute limit across plans and per-month
  request quotas tied to the subscription tier. Confirm the current RPM limit,
  per-plan monthly quotas, throttling response codes, and retry guidance with
  Soundcharts during reconciliation.
sources:
- https://help.soundcharts.com/en/articles/10104294-what-are-the-api-subscription-levels
- https://developers.soundcharts.com/api/v2/doc
- https://developers.soundcharts.com/pricing
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
- name: Requests Per Minute (RPM)
  scope: account
  metric: requests
  limit: shared across all plans; see provider documentation
  notes: Soundcharts states the per-minute rate limit is the same for all subscription tiers.
- name: Monthly Request Quota
  scope: account
  metric: requests
  limit: varies by plan (~500,000 to 60,000,000+ per month)
  notes: Included monthly request allowance is determined by the subscription tier.
- name: Free Trial Quota
  scope: account
  metric: requests
  limit: small trial allowance
  notes: Evaluation requests granted on sign-up with no credit card required.
policies:
- name: Tiered Quotas
  description: Monthly request volume scales with the subscription tier; the per-minute rate limit is shared across tiers.
- name: Backoff Strategy
  description: Clients should implement exponential backoff with jitter on 429 responses and honor any Retry-After header.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com