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In How to enhance Box.com API requests limit, it's explained that each user gets its own rate limit. Does this apply only when the request is sent from the user itself, or also when an admin sends the request as the user? Eg, if my admin account sends 25000 requests as user A, and 25001 requests as user B, will it be rate limited?

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There are two kinds of rate limiting to consider:

  1. Requests per second: this is applied on a per user (account) basis. If you are making n API calls per second on behalf of user A, you can concurrently make n calls per second on behalf of user B without being rate-limited. These limits are not published but you can learn more about them if you're a paying customer.

  2. Total requests per day: The developer terms of service state that this is "currently set at a limit of 50,000 requests, collectively, for all of Developer's Applications, applied in a rolling 24-hour window." Per the linked question above I don't think the 50K ceiling is enforced. But it's in the ToS so it could be enforced at any time.

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  • How does this relate to "API actions", which are set at 25 000, 50 000 or 100 000 per **month** on, for instance, https://www.box.com/en_GB/pricing/ ? – Timst Jan 18 '16 at 08:54
  • I think those monthly limits would apply per user, but you should confirm with Box sales. – John Hoerr Jan 18 '16 at 13:03