API Design · Senior · Question 19 of 75

What is cost-based rate limiting?

1Limiting requests from expensive countries
2Charging money per request
✓Correct answer: Each request consumes 'points' based on how expensive it is (e.g. GraphQL query complexity), instead of counting all requests equally

Explanation

GitHub's GraphQL API uses a point-based limit computed from the query's cost.

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