API rate limiting and threshold

This part gleaned tips around articulating conceptual topics for an API product out of Tom’s API documentation tutorial.

Rate limiting

API comes in different tiers (for example, free versus pro) and licenses (open-source, business, commercial) corresponding to different capabilities or rate limits with the API.

What to cover with rate limiting

Pricing related to rate limiting is probably information that’s within the marketing domain rather than documentation domain. However, developers will still want to know a few key behaviors around the rate-limiting thresholds.