# Clarification on Rate Limit

**URL:** <https://developer.community.nhs.uk/t/clarification-on-rate-limit/3217>\
**Category:** Electronic Prescription Service (EPS)\
**Tags:** fhir\
**Created:** [13 November 2024 11:51 UTC](https://developer.community.nhs.uk/t/clarification-on-rate-limit/3217 "2024-11-13T11:51:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![paul.barton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c6cbf5/32.png) [@paul.barton](https://developer.community.nhs.uk/u/paul.barton)\
**Post date:** [13 November 2024 11:51 UTC](https://developer.community.nhs.uk/t/clarification-on-rate-limit/3217/1 "2024-11-13T11:51:30Z")

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Can anyone clarify if the global rate limit default of 5 transactions per second per application is a key-level rate limit for all the API endpoints or a key-level per endpoint rate limit?

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**Author:** ![jack.pogson-ward1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/977dab/32.png) [@jack.pogson-ward1](https://developer.community.nhs.uk/u/jack.pogson-ward1)\
**Post date:** [13 November 2024 14:23 UTC](https://developer.community.nhs.uk/t/clarification-on-rate-limit/3217/2 "2024-11-13T14:23:52Z")

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Hi Paul - thank you for your question.

I have logged a ticket for this to be looked into. A member of our onboarding team will be in touch via the Positive Solutions Slack channel with the answer.