# Is there a rate-limiting?

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**Category:** API General Questions\
**Created:** [April 1, 2025, 1:39pm UTC](https://photoroom.discourse.group/t/is-there-a-rate-limiting/11 "2025-04-01T13:39:25Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 1, 2025, 1:39pm UTC](https://photoroom.discourse.group/t/is-there-a-rate-limiting/11/1 "2025-04-01T13:39:25Z")

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The default rate limit is 500 images per minute.

When the rate limit has been reached, an error code `429` will be returned.

API calls made using [Sandbox mode](https://docs.photoroom.com/image-editing-api-plus-plan/sandbox-mode) also count towards the rate limit.

For special use cases, the rate limit can be increased.

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**Post date:** [August 29, 2025, 10:34am UTC](https://photoroom.discourse.group/t/is-there-a-rate-limiting/11/2 "2025-08-29T10:34:40Z")

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Hi, I have a maximum of 10 images per minute, but still in Photoroom I get the error `429`. Please quickly tell me why this is happening. From my side, what information do you need so that you can check my logs and let me know?

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**Post date:** [August 29, 2025, 10:36am UTC](https://photoroom.discourse.group/t/is-there-a-rate-limiting/11/3 "2025-08-29T10:36:23Z")

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Hi there!

Yes there is - its 60/min. [Frequently Asked Questions | Photoroom API Documentation](https://docs.photoroom.com/getting-started/frequently-asked-questions#q-is-there-a-rate-limiting).

Thanks for flagging 10/min… could you let us know if this happened more then once? (Is it still happening for you?). If you could send your API key (first few digits) in a DM we can take a look for you.

Best,