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: Weglot
providerId: weglot
created: '2026-06-21'
modified: '2026-06-21'
reconciled: false
tags:
- Translation
- Localization
- Internationalization
- Machine Translation
- Multilingual
- Rate Limiting
- Quotas
- Throttling
description: >-
  The primary usage constraint on the Weglot API is the per-plan translated-word
  allowance (and the included number of languages), not a published per-second
  request rate. Word allowance is consumed as unique content is translated, and a
  project that exceeds its plan allowance stops translating new content (or
  auto-upgrades to the next tier when enabled). Weglot does not publish explicit
  per-minute / per-second request quotas for the translate or public endpoints;
  specific request-rate values are not reconciled in this artifact.
notes: >-
  Verify on reconciliation whether Weglot documents explicit request-per-second
  throttling or a Retry-After convention; the publicly documented limits are the
  per-plan word and language allowances on the pricing page.
sources:
- https://www.weglot.com/pricing
- https://developers.weglot.com/api/reference
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
- name: Translated Word Allowance
  scope: project
  metric: words
  limit: per plan (2,000 to 5,000,000; custom on Enterprise)
  notes: Unique words translated across the project, counted once regardless of page views.
- name: Translated Language Count
  scope: project
  metric: languages
  limit: per plan (1 to 20; custom on Enterprise)
  notes: Number of target languages a project may translate into.
- name: Request Rate
  scope: project
  metric: requests
  limit: see provider documentation
  notes: No explicit per-second/per-minute request rate is published for the translate or public endpoints.
policies:
- name: Tiered Allowances
  description: Word and language allowances increase as projects move up subscription tiers and via Enterprise agreements.
- name: Auto-Upgrade
  description: Projects can opt into automatic upgrade to the next plan when they exceed their current word allowance.
- name: Backoff Strategy
  description: Clients should implement exponential backoff with jitter and honor any Retry-After header on 429 responses.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com