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: Trading Economics
providerId: tradingeconomics
created: '2026-07-11'
modified: '2026-07-11'
reconciled: true
tags:
- Economic Indicators
- Interest Rates
- Macroeconomics
- Financial Data
- Rate Limiting
- Quotas
- Throttling
description: >-
  Trading Economics documents a general limitation of 2 requests per second
  on the REST API, with per-call row caps rather than daily quotas - a
  maximum of 10,000 rows per historical data call and 1,000 rows per
  economic calendar call - and a 260-character limit on request URLs.
  Overall request volumes depend on the subscription plan, with higher
  tiers allowing greater volumes. Trial accounts are capped at 100,000 data
  points and 100 data requests.
notes: >-
  The rate limits page does not document the throttle response code or any
  burst allowance; verify plan-specific volumes in the developer portal on
  reconciliation.
sources:
- https://docs.tradingeconomics.com/get_started/rate-limits/
- https://tradingeconomics.com/api/pricing.aspx
limits:
- name: Requests Per Second
  scope: account
  metric: requests
  limit: 2 per second
  notes: General limitation across the REST API, documented on the rate limits page.
- name: Historical Rows Per Call
  scope: request
  metric: rows
  limit: 10000
  notes: Single API calls for historical data return at most 10,000 rows; page with date ranges.
- name: Calendar Rows Per Call
  scope: request
  metric: rows
  limit: 1000
  notes: Economic Calendar calls return at most 1,000 rows per request.
- name: URL Length
  scope: request
  metric: characters
  limit: 260
  notes: One API call is limited to URLs of 260 characters; batch fewer countries/indicators per call.
- name: Trial Quota
  scope: account
  metric: data_points
  limit: 100000 data points and 100 requests
  notes: Applies to trial users only, per the pricing page.
policies:
- name: Plan-Based Volumes
  description: Specific request volumes depend on the subscription plan; higher-tier plans allow greater request volumes and more frequent access.
- name: Pagination by Date Range
  description: Work within the 10,000-row historical and 1,000-row calendar caps by slicing requests into date ranges.
- name: Backoff Strategy
  description: Stay under 2 requests per second; implement client-side spacing and retry with backoff on throttle responses.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com