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Rate Limiting
A cap on how many requests a system will accept or send in a given time window.
Rate limits exist both on the receiving side (an API protecting itself from overload) and the sending side (an automation deliberately pacing requests to stay under a provider's limit). Automations that call AI models or third-party APIs at volume need to design for rate limits explicitly, or they fail unpredictably under load.
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