daily request quota

A daily request quota sets the ceiling on programmatic access before any analysis starts. The cataloged Alpha Vantage record - TIME_SERIES_DAILY, shown with a Weyerhaeuser example - states the free tier plainly: "Free tier is capped at 25 API requests per day (unlimited for verified open-source or educational projects)". Its cost field reads "freemium", and the paid ladder is explicit: "Premium plans run from 75 requests/min ($49.99/mo) to 1200 requests/min ($2499/mo)". Quotas come in two shapes worth separating. A daily count bounds total volume, while a per-second rate bounds burst speed - the SEC EDGAR XBRL Company Facts API record for Weyerhaeuser (CIK 106535) documents the second kind: "Current max request rate is 10 requests/second".

Quota math decides project economics before the first row lands. Size a nightly job against a free key capped at 25 requests/day and you exhaust the day's budget on a handful of symbols; the pipeline then stalls mid-month rather than failing loudly. Waivers change the picture - Alpha Vantage grants unlimited requests to verified open-source or educational projects, so classifying your use case correctly is worth as much as paying. Throughput needs push you up the paid ladder, where price tracks requests-per-minute rather than raw data volume: 75 requests/min at $49.99/month versus 1,200 at $2,499/month is a 33x price step for a 16x rate step. Buyers who skip this arithmetic discover the true constraint during integration, when it costs the most.

1. Read the cap before sizing the workload Alpha Vantage documents "Free tier is capped at 25 API requests per day" on its TIME_SERIES_DAILY record - start there, not with vendor marketing.

1. Ask what qualifies for a waiver The same record makes requests "unlimited for verified open-source or educational projects" - check whether your project qualifies before buying.

1. Price the paid ladder end to end "Premium plans run from 75 requests/min ($49.99/mo) to 1200 requests/min ($2499/mo)" - map your peak-minute demand onto that curve.

1. Separate per-day ceilings from per-second rates SEC EDGAR's XBRL Company Facts API states "Current max request rate is 10 requests/second" - a burst limit that a daily-average planner will miss.

Neighboring entries cover the throttle itself and the pricing model behind these caps:

api-rate-limit covers the general mechanics of request limiting, of which the daily quota is one variant. freemium-access-model is the pricing shape behind Alpha Vantage's 25-a-day free tier and paid rate steps.

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