Rate Limits
This section describes the rate limits on server requests.
The Fintel API is available to subscribers of our Silver and Gold tiers. It is made available for personal use cases and any large scale usage will require approval. Contact support for further information about extended use cases.
In order to manage performance and ensure availability of our services to all users, we impose rate limits on API calls. There are two types of rate limits placed on the system: request limits and daily data volume limits based on a points system. Each user is allowed 500,000 points per day.
- Request limit. At the request level, we limit the number of requests that can be made within a certain number of seconds.
- Daily data volume. Additionally, there is a daily limit on the amount of data that can be downloaded in a given 24 hour period.
We measure the amount of data using a rough weighting factor that is loosely correlated to the number of records downloaded. For example, a request to the ownership endpoint to retrieve the full ownership data of a security will have a weight that corresponds to the number of owners returned. If the call returns 100 owners, the weight will be 100.
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