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: ValueRay
providerId: valueray
created: '2026-05-06'
modified: '2026-05-06'
reconciled: false
tags:
  - AI/LLM
  - Financial Data
  - Rate Limiting
  - Stocks
description: >-
  ValueRay throttles its free public Symbol Data API at one request per
  minute. No paid tier with elevated limits has been published. This
  profile is marked unreconciled until ValueRay publishes formal rate
  limit documentation; values reflect the throttle observed and reported
  in coverage of the API as of May 2026.
sources:
  - https://www.valueray.com/api
  - https://www.valueray.com/
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
  quotaExceeded: 429
limits:
  - name: Free tier per-minute throttle
    scope: ip-or-token
    metric: requests_per_minute
    limit: 1
    timeFrame: minute
    notes: Reported throttle for the free public tier; canonical published documentation has not been observed.
policies:
  - name: AI agent friendly
    description: Responses are designed for LLM consumption, including a field_explanations URL pointing at
      published metric definitions so agents can ground responses without re-querying.
  - name: Premium tier planned
    description: A premium tier with higher rate limits has been signaled but is not yet documented.
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com