> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.outbound.dev/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# List rate limits

> Every rate limit the organization's calls share, with what is left of it in the current window, and the calling key's spend today against its daily cap. Free, with its own limit, so reading the limits never spends them.



## OpenAPI

````yaml /openapi.json get /v1/limits
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: outbound.dev API
  version: v1
  description: Find people and companies, and see what every call costs, with one API key.
servers:
  - url: https://api.outbound.dev
security: []
tags:
  - name: People
    description: >-
      Search people with filters, a saved search or a plain-language query,
      count matches and look up filter values.
  - name: Companies
    description: >-
      Search companies, count matches, name one company by its name, domain or
      LinkedIn page, and list its people.
  - name: Saved searches
    description: Keep a search under a title and run it again, for people or for companies.
  - name: Jobs
    description: >-
      Long tasks a call started: their progress, what they produced and what
      they were charged.
  - name: Account
    description: >-
      The calling key and its organization, its rate limits, and revoking the
      key.
  - name: Billing
    description: The balance, the ledger of every change to it, and the price list.
  - name: Usage and requests
    description: >-
      Calls and spend by day, and the record of every request of the last 30
      days.
paths:
  /v1/limits:
    get:
      tags:
        - Account
      summary: List rate limits
      description: >-
        Every rate limit the organization's calls share, with what is left of it
        in the current window, and the calling key's spend today against its
        daily cap. Free, with its own limit, so reading the limits never spends
        them.
      operationId: getLimits
      parameters: []
      responses:
        '200':
          description: >-
            Every rate limit, with what is left of it, and the calling key's
            spend today.
          headers:
            X-Request-Id:
              $ref: '#/components/headers/RequestId'
            X-Charged-Usd:
              $ref: '#/components/headers/ChargedUsd'
            X-Balance-Usd:
              $ref: '#/components/headers/BalanceUsd'
            RateLimit-Limit:
              $ref: '#/components/headers/RateLimitLimit'
            RateLimit-Remaining:
              $ref: '#/components/headers/RateLimitRemaining'
            RateLimit-Reset:
              $ref: '#/components/headers/RateLimitReset'
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                required:
                  - rateLimits
                  - keyDailySpend
                properties:
                  rateLimits:
                    type: array
                    items:
                      type: object
                      required:
                        - group
                        - limit
                        - windowSeconds
                        - remaining
                        - resetsAt
                      properties:
                        group:
                          type: string
                          description: >-
                            The routes that share the limit, such as
                            `people_search`.
                        limit:
                          type: integer
                          description: >-
                            The calls allowed per window, for the whole
                            organization.
                        windowSeconds:
                          type: integer
                          description: 'The window: 60 for a minute, 86400 for a day.'
                        remaining:
                          type: integer
                          description: The calls left in the current window.
                        resetsAt:
                          type: string
                          format: date-time
                          description: When the current window ends.
                  keyDailySpend:
                    type: object
                    description: >-
                      What the calling key spent today (UTC) against its daily
                      cap.
                    required:
                      - spentUsd
                      - resetsAt
                    properties:
                      spentUsd:
                        type: string
                        description: Spent today, in US dollars.
                      capUsd:
                        type: string
                        description: >-
                          The key's daily cap, in US dollars. Absent when the
                          key has none.
                      remainingUsd:
                        type: string
                        description: >-
                          What is left of the cap today. Absent when the key has
                          none.
                      resetsAt:
                        type: string
                        format: date-time
                        description: 'When today ends: midnight UTC.'
              example:
                rateLimits:
                  - group: people_search
                    limit: 20
                    windowSeconds: 60
                    remaining: 19
                    resetsAt: '2026-11-14T10:03:00.000Z'
                  - group: people_search
                    limit: 1000
                    windowSeconds: 86400
                    remaining: 997
                    resetsAt: '2026-11-15T00:00:00.000Z'
                keyDailySpend:
                  spentUsd: '0.001800'
                  capUsd: '5.000000'
                  remainingUsd: '4.998200'
                  resetsAt: '2026-11-15T00:00:00.000Z'
        '429':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/RateLimited'
        4XX:
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Error'
        5XX:
          $ref: '#/components/responses/ServerError'
      security:
        - apiKey: []
components:
  headers:
    RequestId:
      description: The request's id. Quote it when you write to support.
      schema:
        type: string
        example: req_6a1f0c2b9d4e8a7f3c5b2e10
    ChargedUsd:
      description: What this call cost, in US dollars as an exact six-decimal string.
      schema:
        type: string
        example: '0.000500'
    BalanceUsd:
      description: >-
        The organization's balance after this call, in US dollars as an exact
        six-decimal string.
      schema:
        type: string
        example: '9.999500'
    RateLimitLimit:
      description: >-
        The calls allowed in the window of the route's limit with the fewest
        calls left.
      schema:
        type: integer
        example: 20
    RateLimitRemaining:
      description: The calls left in that window.
      schema:
        type: integer
        example: 19
    RateLimitReset:
      description: Seconds until that window resets.
      schema:
        type: integer
        example: 42
    RetryAfter:
      description: Seconds to wait before calling again.
      schema:
        type: integer
        example: 42
  responses:
    RateLimited:
      description: >-
        Too many calls. Wait the seconds in Retry-After, then call again. The
        body is empty.
      headers:
        Retry-After:
          $ref: '#/components/headers/RetryAfter'
        X-Request-Id:
          $ref: '#/components/headers/RequestId'
        RateLimit-Limit:
          $ref: '#/components/headers/RateLimitLimit'
        RateLimit-Remaining:
          $ref: '#/components/headers/RateLimitRemaining'
        RateLimit-Reset:
          $ref: '#/components/headers/RateLimitReset'
    Error:
      description: The request was refused. The body names the reason in `error.code`.
      headers:
        X-Request-Id:
          $ref: '#/components/headers/RequestId'
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
    ServerError:
      description: >-
        Something failed on our side and nothing was charged. Retry with
        backoff; quote X-Request-Id if it persists. The body is empty.
      headers:
        X-Request-Id:
          $ref: '#/components/headers/RequestId'
  schemas:
    Error:
      type: object
      required:
        - error
      properties:
        error:
          type: object
          required:
            - code
            - message
            - doc_url
          properties:
            code:
              type: string
              description: >-
                Stable and machine-readable: branch on it. It never changes
                meaning.
            message:
              type: string
              description: >-
                A human-readable explanation for logs. It may be reworded at any
                time.
            param:
              type: string
              description: The request field the error is about, when there is one.
            doc_url:
              type: string
              description: The code's entry in the errors reference.
            request_id:
              type: string
              description: >-
                The request's id, as in the X-Request-Id header. Quote it to
                support.
      example:
        error:
          code: insufficient_balance
          message: Your balance cannot cover this call. Add funds and try again.
          doc_url: https://docs.outbound.dev/errors#insufficient_balance
          request_id: req_6a1f0c2b9d4e8a7f3c5b2e10
  securitySchemes:
    apiKey:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      description: >-
        An API key from the console, starting `ob_live_`, sent as
        `Authorization: Bearer <key>`.

````

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