# Application of rate limits

**URL:** <https://api-discuss.freeagent.com/t/application-of-rate-limits/745>\
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**Created:** [3 April 2017 10:43 UTC](https://api-discuss.freeagent.com/t/application-of-rate-limits/745 "2017-04-03T10:43:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![phillip](https://api-discuss.freeagent.com/user_avatar/api-discuss.freeagent.com/phillip/32/91_2.png) [@phillip](https://api-discuss.freeagent.com/u/phillip)\
**Post date:** [3 April 2017 10:43 UTC](https://api-discuss.freeagent.com/t/application-of-rate-limits/745/1 "2017-04-03T10:43:15Z")

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Hello,

I see that you have just recently announced rate limits for the FreeAgent API. However it’s a little unclear to me from the post how these will be implemented. Will these rate limits be per account (i.e. [anaccount.freeagent.com](http://anaccount.freeagent.com)) or per OAuth Application (if more than one account is using an integration is the rate limit applied across all of these accounts)?

> [@Important Announcement: Rate Limits](https://api-discuss.freeagent.com/t/important-announcement-rate-limits/744):
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> Hi All, As part of our ongoing work to strengthen our systems and improve reliability for all users we will shortly be introducing rate limits to our API. The exact nature of these limits is still being finalised, however our current proposal (which may be subject to change) is to set request limits as follows: 3600 requests per user per hour 120 requests per user per minute 5 token refreshes per minute These limits are per individual user of your integration and are reset at the “top” of …

Regards,  
Phillip

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**Author:** ![Paul\_Smith](https://api-discuss.freeagent.com/user_avatar/api-discuss.freeagent.com/paul_smith/32/54_2.png) [@Paul\_Smith](https://api-discuss.freeagent.com/u/Paul_Smith)\
**Post date:** [3 April 2017 10:46 UTC](https://api-discuss.freeagent.com/t/application-of-rate-limits/745/2 "2017-04-03T10:46:15Z")

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Hi Phillip,

The limits will be per user (i.e. an individual rather than a company), so if you have multiple concurrent users of your integration these will not affect each other.

I’ll go back and clarify that point on the announcement.

Thanks for the feedback,  
Paul.

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**Author:** ![phillip](https://api-discuss.freeagent.com/user_avatar/api-discuss.freeagent.com/phillip/32/91_2.png) [@phillip](https://api-discuss.freeagent.com/u/phillip)\
**Post date:** [3 April 2017 10:55 UTC](https://api-discuss.freeagent.com/t/application-of-rate-limits/745/3 "2017-04-03T10:55:16Z")

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Thanks Paul,

I sort of suspected that would be the case but worthwhile checking 🙂

Regards,  
Phillip