# Rate limits

Free and Pay-as-you-go share one exact organisation-level request limit.

## Limits

Free and Pay-as-you-go share one organisation-level request budget.

| Scope | Routes | Limit | Window |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Organisation | Jobs, companies and reference data | 60 | 1 minute |
| API key | No separate allowance | Uses organisation budget | 1 minute |
| Catalogues | Authenticated and free | Uses organisation budget | 1 minute |

> **429 responses are not billable:** Wait for Retry-After before retrying. Add bounded exponential backoff with jitter and avoid synchronised retries across workers.

## Production guidance

- Share one limiter across every key in an organisation.
- Keep concurrency bounded.
- Cache catalogue responses in your own service where permitted.
- Do not retry validation, authentication or insufficient-credit errors.