Rate Limiting and Quota Management
Per-user, per-org, and per-endpoint quotas so one tenant can't burn your OpenAI budget.
Why Limits?
Without limits, a single abusive client can:
- Burn through your OpenAI budget
- Crowd out other users
- DDoS your service
Rate limits and quotas protect cost, latency, and fairness.
Rate Limit vs Quota
- Rate limit — requests per second/minute (short term)
- Quota — total budget per day/month (long term)
You need both.
All lessons in this course
- Serving Agents Behind an API
- Async Workflows and Background Jobs
- Rate Limiting and Quota Management
- Blue-Green and Canary Deploys for Agents