What is Quota?
Verified 5 August 2026
Hitting a rate limit is temporary and resolves with backoff. Exhausting a quota is a billing decision: either requests stop, or overage applies.
Hard-capping free tiers is the responsible default — with no card on file, a clear stop is better than an unexpected bill.
How unlob handles this: Rate limits and quotas
Common questions
What is Quota?
A quota is the total number of requests allowed in a billing period, as distinct from a rate limit on requests per minute.
How does Quota work in practice?
Hard-capping free tiers is the responsible default — with no card on file, a clear stop is better than an unexpected bill.
See it working
The free tier is 10,000 requests a month with no card — enough to test any of this against your own queries.