LLM Rate Limiting Implement robust rate limiting to prevent quota exhaustion and handle API limits gracefully. When to Use - Hitting API rate limits - Managing concurrent requests - Preventing quota exhaustion - Implementing fair usage policies - Handling burst traffic API Rate Limits (2026) Anthropic Claude | Tier | Requests/min | Tokens/min | Tokens/day | |------|-------------|------------|------------| | Free | 5 | 20K | 300K | | Tier 1 | 50 | 40K | 1M | | Tier 2 | 1000 | 80K | 2.5M | | Tier 3 | 2000 | 160K | 5M | | Tier 4 | 4000 | 400K | 10M | OpenAI | Tier | RPM | TPM | |------|-----|---…