Rate Limits - Pacifica

Credit Quotas

The API config key system allows Pacifica to provision higher rate limits to verified users, ensuring real traders have adequate resources while protecting against abuse.

Tier	Base Credits/60s
Unidentified IP	100
Valid API Config Key	300

These are base quotas and may be increased based on account reputation. The credit is shared across a main account and all its subaccounts. Naturally, higher fee tier grants an account higher rate limits.

Tier	Credits/60s
1	300
2	600
3	1200
4	2400
5	6000
VIP1	12000
VIP2	24000
VIP3	30000

Credit Costs

Action	Unidentified IP	API Config Key
Standard request/action	1	1
Order cancellation	0.5	0.5
Heavy GET requests	3-12	1-4

When credits are exhausted, requests return HTTP 429.

WebSocket Limits

Max 100 concurrent connections per IP
Max 20 subscriptions per channel per connection

These are default limits; production deployments may set higher values, and quotas can be raised for specific accounts.

Checking Your Quota

Note: All credit values are multiplied by 10 to support fractional costs (e.g., r=1200 = 120.0 credits).

REST API - Response headers:

ratelimit: "credits";r=1200;t=32
ratelimit-policy: "credits";q=1250;w=60

WebSocket - rl field in action responses:

{"rl": {"r": 1200, "q": 1250, "t": 32}}

Field	Description
`r`	Remaining credits
`t`	Seconds until refresh
`q`	Total quota per window
`w`	Window size in seconds

​Credit Quotas

​Credit Costs

​WebSocket Limits

​Checking Your Quota

Credit Quotas

Credit Costs

WebSocket Limits

Checking Your Quota