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API Rate Limit Fairness Design

Make limits fair across tenants

Designing fair rate limits means setting per-tenant/user tiers, separating burst and sustained limits, protecting critical endpoints, and monitoring for abuse to avoid noisy neighbors while enabling paying customers.

Segment

Define limits by plan/tenant and by critical endpoints.

Shape Traffic

Separate burst vs sustained limits; use token buckets.

Monitor

Watch for abuse/noisy neighbors; adjust and document limits.

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