Check projected API usage against a quota and estimate overage cost.
Quotas and rate limits fail differently: quotas are breached by total volume while rate limits are breached by peaks. A service well inside its quota can still be throttled during a spike. Checking the peak against the rate limit is what catches the failure that monthly averages hide.
API Quota
Monthly requests = rate per minute × 43,200; peak = average × peak ratio
Monthly requests = rate per minute × 43,200; peak = average × peak ratio Quotas and rate limits fail differently: quotas are breached by total volume while rate limits are breached by peaks. A service well inside its quota can still be throttled during a spike.
Checking the peak against the rate limit is what catches the failure that monthly averages hide.
This calculator takes 5 inputs: Average requests per minute, Monthly quota, Peak to average ratio, Rate limit per minute, Overage cost per thousand requests. The pre-filled defaults are a realistic starting point — replace them with figures from your own environment for a result you can act on.