Rate limits
View the rate limits that apply to your team's API usage across all models.
Rate limit tiers
Your rate limit tier determines your team's overall throughput ceiling.
You're on tier 0
Higher tiers unlock automatically once your team passes a cumulative spend threshold.
Tier 0
$0
Tier 1
$60
Tier 2
$275
Tier 3
$1,200
Tier 4
$6,000
Spend $52 more to unlock Tier 1. Rate limit tiers apply to text models only. To request an increase for the Voice or Render APIs, email api-limits@kestrel.dev.
Per-model rate limits
Rate limits for each model available to your team. Limits are calculated from your team tier plus any active overrides.
| Model | rpm | tpm |
|---|---|---|
| Language models |
T0T1T2T3T4
|
T0T1T2T3T4
|
| kestrel-3.4-0712-reasoning |
1,750
|
9,600,000
|
| kestrel-3.4-0712-instant |
1,750
|
9,600,000
|
| kestrel-2.9-0418-reasoning |
640
|
4,200,000
|
| kestrel-mini-0530 |
3,400
|
18,000,000
|