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## **Rate Limits**

The public Gateway endpoints use a rate-limiting mechanism to ensure infrastructure stability and fair resource distribution. The limitations are as follows:

* **gateway.multiversx.com (_Mainnet_):** Maximum of **50 requests / IP / second**.
* **devnet-gateway.multiversx.com (_Devnet_):** Maximum of **50 requests / IP / second**.

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## **HTTP Response format**

Each request against the MultiversX API will resolve to a JSON response having the following structure:
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When describing each HTTP endpoint on the following pages, the basic structure of the response is **simplified for brevity,** and, in general, only the actual payload of the response is depicted.
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- subscription: used to manage subscriptions, fetch and broadcast data to subscribers
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## Rate limiting
### Rate Limits

Public MultiversX APIs have a rate limit mechanism that brings the following limitations:
Public MultiversX APIs utilize a protective rate-limiting mechanism to ensure network stability. The following limitations apply:

- api.multiversx.com (_mainnet_): 2 requests / IP / second
- devnet-api.multiversx.com (_devnet_): 5 requests / IP / second
#### HTTP Requests (REST API)
* **api.multiversx.com (_Mainnet_):** Maximum of **2 requests / IP / second**.
* **devnet-api.multiversx.com (_Devnet_):** Maximum of **5 requests / IP / second**.

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#### WebSocket Subscriptions
* **Subscription Limit:** A single client can create a maximum of **10 different subscription variants** (active parallel subscriptions).

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