To maintain the stability of our data servers and provide all users with equal quality service, we have two types of API limits: Minute API Limit and Daily API Limit.
IMPORTANT. We reset the daily limit on midnight GMT time. However, we do not reset the counter itself, the counter will be reset on any API request right after midnight GMT time. Before that, the counter shows the number of API requests on the last active day.
Daily API Limit
Key Notes:
- An API request is not the same as an API call; the API calls are a sort of currency for making requests.
- The daily limit is restricted to 100 000 API calls.
- Each request to Technical API, Intraday API and News API consumes 5 API calls.
- Each request to Fundamental API, Options API, and Bond Fundamentals API consumes 10 API calls.
- Each symbol request costs 1 API call (applicable to APIs whose requests costs 1 API call). For example, a Live API multiple tickers request with 10 symbols costs 10 API calls.
- The same logic works for any multiple tickers API endpoints.
- Any Bulk API for the entire exchange request costs 100 API calls for the entire exchange. And 100 API calls + N API calls in case of request of Bulk API with ‘symbols’ parameter, where N = the number of symbols.
It’s easy to check Daily API Limit on your Settings page.
If you need to increase your default 100 000 daily API call limits, every additional 100k API calls will cost the price of your current subscription, with discounts starting at 300k. We are currently working on a fully automated process for increasing limits. In the meantime, we offer a semi-manual solution. For now, the process to increase the limit differs between PayPal and credit card subscriptions. For PayPal, you need to purchase extra subscriptions that would sum up (with the current one) to the amount of your need, and then tell us about that, we’ll increase the limit. For credit card subscriptions, you need to tell us about your desire to upgrade or downgrade the limit, and we’ll do that seamlessly from our side. In every case, the API key will remain the same.
Feel free to contact our support via support@eodhistoricaldata.com, where we can assist you with daily limit increase.
Minute API Limit
Minute limit means that API is restricted to no more than 1000 requests per minute. It’s easy to check this limit with headers you get with every request:
- X-RateLimit-Limit: 1000
- X-RateLimit-Remaining: 998
It is advisable to spread out the requests more or less evenly throughout the minute, without making them go off all at once, to avoid getting a Too Many Requests error.
Extra API Calls
You can purchase additional API calls, which will only be used when your daily API limit is exhausted, functioning as a buffer. These additional API calls will not expire and can be accumulated by purchasing more as needed. To buy additional calls, find the form ‘Buy extra API Calls’ on your dashbaord page:
https://eodhd.com/cp/dashboard
This is how the form looks like:
Please note that additional API calls will not increase your daily limit, but instead provide a buffer for usage when you run out of your daily calls. If you would like to increase your daily limit, please contact support: support@eodhistoricaldata.com
API Usage Statistics
To check your account’s usage statistics go to https://eodhd.com/cp/api
To adjust the view of your API usage chart, you can select the period and type of API requests. The number displayed on the chart indicates how many times you have called the API.
To calculate how this has impacted your API limit, you need to multiply the number of calls by the cost per API request. For example, each intraday API call consumes 5 limit units (you can check the cost of each call on the documentation page for that particular API).
