Rate Limits

All Developer API endpoints are rate-limited per calendar month, per account. Limits reset on the 1st of each month.

Monthly request limits

Endpoint	Free	Pro	Max
POST /api/dev/pastes/create	0	500	10,000
GET /api/dev/pastes/get/:ref	0	3,000	50,000
PUT /api/dev/pastes/update/:ref	0	500	10,000
DELETE /api/dev/pastes/delete/:ref	10	500	5,000
POST /api/dev/files/upload	0	100	1,000
GET /api/dev/files/get/:id	0	500	5,000
DELETE /api/dev/files/delete/:id	0	200	2,000
POST /api/dev/paste-lite/create	100	5,000	20,000
GET /api/dev/paste-lite/get/:ref	500	10,000	100,000
DELETE /api/dev/paste-lite/delete/:ref	50	2,000	10,000
GET /api/dev/paste-lite/list	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited
GET /api/dev/files/list	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited

0 means the endpoint is not accessible on that tier (returns 429 with a plan upgrade message).

Overage billing

When you exceed your free monthly quota, additional requests are automatically billed against your credit balance at per-request rates:

Endpoint	Pro overage	Max overage
pastes.create	0.002 credits	0.001 credits
pastes.get	0.0005 credits	0.0003 credits
pastes.update	0.001 credits	0.0005 credits
pastes.delete	0.0005 credits	0.0003 credits
files.upload	0.005 credits	0.003 credits
files.get	0.001 credits	0.0005 credits
files.delete	0.0005 credits	0.0003 credits
pasteLite.create	0.0005 credits	0.0002 credits
pasteLite.get	0.0002 credits	0.0001 credits
pasteLite.delete	0.0002 credits	0.0001 credits

If your credit balance runs out, over-quota requests are blocked with 429 Too Many Requests.

File storage limits

File storage is billed separately from request quotas. See the Files API — Storage limits section for full details.

Free quota	10 GB
Overage	$0.03 / GB
Bandwidth	Free
Per-file max	50 MB

Checking remaining quota

Every successful API response includes a remaining field indicating how many free requests you have left in the current period for that endpoint:

{
  "success": true,
  "id": "aB3xYz",
  "remaining": 423
}

When remaining is 0, the next request will be billed against credits (if any are available).

When remaining is -1, you are on Admin tier (unlimited).

Rate limit errors

{
  "success": false,
  "reason": "Monthly limit of 500 requests reached for paste.create. Upgrade your plan to continue."
}

Status	Description
429	Quota exhausted and no credits available, or endpoint not available on current tier

Checking usage in the SDK

const usage = await anonpaste.client.get('/api/users/user/dev-usage');

Or view your usage in the Developer Dashboard.