Usage and limits
API Usage
Each eligible plan has an allotted number of Admin API requests, with higher-tier plans offering increased request limits. This gives you more flexibility as your needs grow.
Plans
Business - 5,000 requests/month
Enterprise and Circle Plus - 30,000 requests/month
Circle Plus Platform - 250,000 requests/month
Note that Zapier usage does not count towards these limits.
You can monitor your usage by going to the Developers tab in your admin area.
If you exceed your limits over the next few months, don’t worry: we won’t be enforcing our API limits until January 1, 2025 so you have time to establish a baseline and upgrade your plan if needed.
Rate limits
To prevent attacks and/or abuses, there's a rate limiting mechanism in place on all of Circle's APIs. The limit is 2000 request per 5 minutes per IP. That number can change at any time. It's important to note that this limit is quite generous compared to other API providers. As a best practice, when you receive a 429 (Too Many Requests) response, you should implement a backoff strategy by pausing your script before retrying, rather than continuing to send requests immediately.
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