Inquiry Regarding Rate Limit Issue with Enterprise L Subscription

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Hi everyone,

I am currently working with the Sentinel Hub API using an account with an Enterprise L subscription. I attempted to run 1000 requests per minute (spread across 15 requests per second), but I encountered an issue where I received a status code 429 for some of the requests (~390 requests), despite the fact that the Enterprise L subscription allows for 1200 requests per minute. Additionally, I did not reach the limit for the number of processing units per minute.

Could you kindly assist in understanding the cause of this rate-limiting issue? Is there any other constraint or limitation that could have triggered this behavior?

I appreciate your help and look forward to your response.

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Looking at your usage, I see you are using Statistical API, which triggers in the back-end a request for each of the observation dates. Therefore, when you trigger 1000 requests per minute, there are, in practice, tens of thousands of requests in the back-end.

I recommend to look in the Batch Statistical API, which was designed for exactly these use-cases, and allows you to process hundreds of thousands of AOIs shortly.