Posts tagged #rate-limits

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June 17, 2026 · 6 min read

Surviving Solana RPC 429s: Rate Limits in Production

Solana's high block rate makes RPC rate limiting a constant production concern — 429s show up under load and break bots, indexers, and frontends. Here's why they happen, how to handle them with backoff and batching, and how to size your endpoint so they stop happening at all.

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June 10, 2026 · 5 min read

RPC Rate Limits Decoded: req/s, CUs, API Credits

Every RPC provider limits you, but they don't agree on what a limit even is. One caps requests per second, another meters compute units, a third deducts API credits. Here's how the three models work, why the same workload costs differently on each, and how to estimate your own number.

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