API rate limits

[quantnik]

Hi, I was told by Gateio support to direct my query here.

The documentation regarding rate limits is unfortunately not very clear.
All it says is:

"
Spot:

300 read operations per IP per second

Futures:

200 requests/second each user for private operations
"

Questions:

1. So for SPOT, for reads (only) it is 300, per second, per IP. There is no limit per user, or per sub-account? i.e. if I had 100 IPs, I can read 30000 per second?

2. For SPOT, there is no limit whatsoever for writes?

3. For SPOT, it does not matter the difference between private/public endpoints? Both are limited as per above?

4. For FUTURES, private endpoints: 200 per second, regardless of read/write. This is across ALL sub-accounts? Or per sub-account?

5. For FUTURES, public endpoints there is no limit?

6. Does using a different API key make any difference to the above?

Thank you.

[revilwang]

Sorry for late reply.

We're in the way of redesign our new API rate limiting strategy. Current detailed rate limiting rules can be found here. If the link does not cover some questions you mentioned. You're welcomed to post more comments here.

[quantnik]

Thank @revilwang , really helpful.

1. I take it by "API key" effectively means by sub-account on the spot side?
2. are there any plan to similarly make the futures side based on sub-accounts?

Thanks again.

[revilwang]

1. For spot side, every API key has its own rate limits. So even if one user has multiple API keys, they don't share the limits. For sub accounts, you have to create their standalone API keys, which means they also have their own rate limits.
2. Futures's rate limits are based on user ID. Sub accounts have different user ID with main account, so they don't share limits. But all API keys of one user shares his/her own limits.