| Tier | Read | Write |
|---|
| Basic | 20 per second | 10 per second |
| Advanced | 30 per second | 30 per second |
| Premier | 100 per second | 100 per second |
| Prime | 100 per second | 400 per second |
- Qualification for tiers
- Basic: Completing signup
- Advanced: Completing https://forms.gle/iMhGvPZ1yU173jk2A
- Premier: 3.75% of exchange traded volume in a given month
- Prime: 7.5% of exchange traded volume in a given month
- In addition to the volume targets, technical competency is a requirement for Premier/Prime access. Before providing access to the Premier/Prime tiers, the Exchange will establish that the trader/trading entity has the following requirements met:
- Knowledge of common security practices for API usage.
- Proficiency in setting up monitoring for API usage, and ability to monitor API usage in near real-time.
- Understanding and implementation of rate limiting and throttling mechanisms imposed by the API, and the ability to self-limit load.
- Awareness of legal and compliance aspects related to API usage.
- Only the following APIs fall under the write limit, for the batch APIs, each item in the batch is considered 1 transaction with the sole exception of BatchCancelOrders, where each cancel counts as 0.2 transactions.
- We reserve the right to downgrade your API rate limit tier from Prime and Premier when you have shown lack of activity in the previous period
