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 ## Rate limit
 
-To prevent abuse of the API an IP-based HTTP rate limit is in place, a maximum of 300 requests in a 5 minutes time window are allowed, every response will include the current status of the rate limit with the following headers:
+To prevent abuse of the API an IP-based HTTP rate limit is in place, a maximum of 1000 requests in a 5 minutes time window are allowed, every response will include the current status of the rate limit with the following headers:
 
 - `x-ratelimit-limit` maximum number of requests allowed per time period (fixed)
 - `x-ratelimit-remaining` number of remaining requests that can still be performed