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: Yummly
providerId: yummly
created: '2026-07-03'
modified: '2026-07-03'
reconciled: false
status: deprecated
tags:
- Recipes
- Food
- Recipe Search
- Deprecated
- Historical
- Rate Limiting
- Quotas
description: >-
  HISTORICAL / DEPRECATED. The Yummly Recipe API's usage limits were expressed as
  monthly call allowances tied to each developer plan rather than as per-second
  throttles: a free evaluation cap of roughly 500 calls, a Lite tier of about
  250,000 calls/month, and a Plus tier of about 4,000,000 calls/month, with
  per-call overage billing above the allowance. These quotas applied to the
  Search Recipes, Get Recipe, and Metadata endpoints. The developer program is
  deprecated and the api.yummly.com endpoints are offline, so none of these limits
  are enforced or obtainable today; they are recorded for archival reference.
notes: >-
  Yummly did not publish a documented per-second or per-minute request-rate cap;
  usage was governed by the plan's monthly call allowance. The developer portal no
  longer resolves. See the plans file for the corresponding historical allowances
  and overage rates.
sources:
- https://developer.yummly.com/plans
- https://developer.yummly.com/documentation.html
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
- name: Free Evaluation Allowance
  scope: account
  metric: requests
  limit: '~500 total (historical)'
  notes: Evaluation cap for testing; no longer available.
- name: Lite Plan Monthly Allowance
  scope: account
  metric: requests
  limit: '~250000 per month (historical)'
  notes: Overage billed at ~$0.002 per additional call.
- name: Plus Plan Monthly Allowance
  scope: account
  metric: requests
  limit: '~4000000 per month (historical)'
  notes: Overage billed at ~$0.001 per additional call.
- name: Request Rate Throttle
  scope: account
  metric: requests
  limit: not published
  notes: No documented per-second/per-minute rate limit; usage governed by monthly plan allowance.
policies:
- name: Deprecated Program
  description: The Yummly developer API program is deprecated; new signups were closed and the api.yummly.com endpoints are offline. No limits are enforceable today.
- name: Attribution Requirement
  description: All historical plans required displaying Yummly Attribution alongside recipe data returned by the API.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com