Liveapishipped v1.0.0
Rate Limit Calculator
Calculate equivalent rates (per second/minute/hour/day), worker delays, budget exhaustion time, monthly cost estimation, and exponential backoff retry strategy. Includes presets for 9 popular APIs (GitHub, OpenAI, Stripe, Twitter/X, Shopify, AWS, Cloudflare, Google Maps, SendGrid), rate limit response headers reference (X-RateLimit-*, Retry-After, IETF draft), and 5 rate limiting algorithm explanations (Token Bucket, Sliding Window, Fixed Window, Leaky Bucket).
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per second
1.67
per minute
100
per hour
6,000
per day
144,000
Practical info
Min delay (single worker)600ms
Delay per worker (10)6000ms
Budget exhausted (10 workers)10.0s
Monthly requests (sustained)4,320,000
Monthly cost$8.64
Yearly cost$103.68
Exponential backoff
| Attempt | Delay | With jitter (10%) | Total elapsed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1.0s | 1.1s | 1.0s |
| 2 | 2.0s | 2.2s | 3.0s |
| 3 | 4.0s | 4.4s | 7.0s |
| 4 | 8.0s | 8.8s | 15.0s |
| 5 | 16.0s | 17.6s | 31.0s |