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.
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.
Credit Costs
When credits are exhausted, requests return HTTP 429.
WebSocket Limits
Subscription limits apply to each connection. Quotas can be raised for specific accounts.
Open Order Limits
Each account can hold a limited number of open orders in each market:
An order that would go over the limit fails with code
10 (OPEN_ORDER_LIMIT_REACHED). Market and IOC orders do not rest on the book, so the limit does not apply to them.
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:
rl field in action responses: