I have got a client asking about current system capability for our api thats hosted on Azure. The contract is uncapped but I would like to know if it is possible to have 100 million lookups per annum(so about 8 million per month). Also I would like to know if there is a minute cap like maximum 5000 requests per minute. I understand that I can restrict the use of the api with my own api key and set rate limits but what if I dont want to set any limits what is the maximum capacity that the api can handle lets say for standard or premium tier. It is written here https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/api-management/api-management-sample-flexible-throttling#client-driven-throttling "For example, a Basic tier subscription might be able to make no more than 10,000 calls a month but a Premium tier could go up to 100,000,000 calls each month." I would like to hear opinion of people that were or are working with the api. Have you ever experienced some problems when you reached a certain amount of request or there is no limit and I dont need to worry about that. Thanks

CodePudding user response：

Thank you Anand Sowmithiran. Posting your suggestion as an answer to help other community members.

As you referred rightly the API Management documentation, it can be used to throttle the calls, as well as even monetize them using the call data. There is no specific limit. Based on the number of clients for your API, you must rightly choose the pricing tier and the specification of the instances, then you don't have to worry.

You can refer to API Management pricing