<p>Mintpal has a limit of <a href="https://www.mintpal.com/api/v1" rel="nofollow noreferrer">10 requests/second</a></p>
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<p>MintPal API v1 offers a simple REST API to retrieve information about our markets. The API responses are JSON encoded arrays. <strong>Please be aware that calls to the API are rate limited to 10 requests per second</strong>, any requests exceeding this rate will be met with a HTTP 503 response.</p>
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<p>I know Kraken has different rules. You can 'burst', instead of a flat limit. <a href="https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=290799.msg3444767#msg3444767" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Source</a></p>
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<p>The basic API rate limit is <strong>1 call every 5 seconds</strong>. You can do faster bursts up to 10 calls, but then you'd need to follow that by a 50 second pause before you could resume the 1 call very 5 second rate. If you get locked out, it's for 15 minutes.</p>
<p>For really active traders (including those who want to market make with us), we can offer much higher limits. Anyone interested in this should contact us with a support ticket.</p>
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<p>I know Kraken isn't on your wishlist of things to know, but I cannot find information about Cryptsy or Bittrex. But it gives you a insight at real limits, so you can maybe assume those two have similar limits.</p>

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2014-07-08T03:47:41.817Z
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Mathias711
<p>For Bittrex, <a href="https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/59316/trading-bot-what-is-the-maximum-load-an-exchange-server-can-take">this post</a> mentions they got banned for a week for spamming the API. The email they received from Bittrex lifting the ban said to limit to 1 request per second.</p>

<p>Unfortunately, there is still nothing on their official documentation, and I've found their support to be slow-never to respond.</p>

<p>So we're stuck with hearsay for now.</p>

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Ryan Farber
<p>Cryptsy, Mintpal and Bittrex have public APIs.</p>

<p>How many requests per second or minute can I do to these APIs?</p>

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2014-07-20T21:30:23.113Z
There's still no information about Cryptsy.
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Cryptsy, Mintpal, Bittrex API - how many requests can I do?
Victor Mezrin
# Cryptsy, Mintpal, Bittrex API - how many requests can I do?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2014-07-07)

Cryptsy, Mintpal and Bittrex have public APIs.

How many requests per second or minute can I do to these APIs?

**Tags:** api, cryptsy, bittrex, mintpal

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: There's still no information about Cryptsy.  

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## 2 answers

### Answer by username_2 on 2014-07-08. Score: 2 | Accepted answer

Mintpal has a limit of [10 requests/second](https://www.mintpal.com/api/v1)

> MintPal API v1 offers a simple REST API to retrieve information about our markets. The API responses are JSON encoded arrays. **Please be aware that calls to the API are rate limited to 10 requests per second**, any requests exceeding this rate will be met with a HTTP 503 response.

I know Kraken has different rules. You can 'burst', instead of a flat limit. [Source](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=290799.msg3444767#msg3444767)

> The basic API rate limit is **1 call every 5 seconds**. You can do faster bursts up to 10 calls, but then you'd need to follow that by a 50 second pause before you could resume the 1 call very 5 second rate. If you get locked out, it's for 15 minutes.
>
> For really active traders (including those who want to market make with us), we can offer much higher limits. Anyone interested in this should contact us with a support ticket.

I know Kraken isn't on your wishlist of things to know, but I cannot find information about Cryptsy or Bittrex. But it gives you a insight at real limits, so you can maybe assume those two have similar limits.


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### Answer by username_3 on 2018-01-04. Score: 0

For Bittrex, [this post](https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/59316/trading-bot-what-is-the-maximum-load-an-exchange-server-can-take) mentions they got banned for a week for spamming the API. The email they received from Bittrex lifting the ban said to limit to 1 request per second.

Unfortunately, there is still nothing on their official documentation, and I've found their support to be slow-never to respond.

So we're stuck with hearsay for now.


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