Rate limits - Ekly API

Limit	Scope
60 requests per minute	per API key
10 generation submissions per minute	per organization, across all keys

Reads (models, estimates, polling) count toward the per-key limit only.

Headers

Every /v1 response carries:

X-RateLimit-Limit: 60
X-RateLimit-Remaining: 57
X-RateLimit-Reset: 1759485660

X-RateLimit-Reset is a Unix timestamp for when the window clears.

On 429

The body has code: rate_limited and the response carries Retry-After in seconds. Sleep that long, then retry. Polling every 2 seconds stays well inside the limit; if you run many generations at once, poll them in one loop rather than one loop each. Need more? Write to hello@ekly.ai with what you are building.