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Rate Limit LLM APIs by Tokens Not Requests

calendar_today May 11, 2026 person domain zuplo

Requests-per-minute is the wrong meter for LLM endpoints. One call can be 50 tokens or 50,000. Rate limit on input and output tokens with Zuplo’s complex-rate-limit-inbound policy and the real counts from each upstream response.

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