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title: "Custom API rate limiting per API Key"
description: "Set per-API-key rate limits in Zuplo, giving each consumer its own request quota with no backend changes."
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date: "2024-01-04"
duration: "7:11"
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# Custom API rate limiting per API Key

Set per-API-key rate limits in Zuplo, giving each consumer its own request quota with no backend changes.

**Watch:** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAt0PgmXWao](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAt0PgmXWao)

- Duration: 7:11
- Published: 2024-01-04
- Categories: API Security

## Related Resources

- **[Rate Limiting](https://zuplo.com/docs/policies/rate-limit-inbound)** (docs) — Configure the rate-limit-inbound policy with custom keys, quotas, and time windows.
- **[API Key Authentication](https://zuplo.com/docs/policies/api-key-inbound)** (docs) — Authenticate requests and key rate limits on the API key's subject with Zuplo's API key service.
- **[API Rate Limit Exceeded](https://zuplo.com/learning-center/api-rate-limit-exceeded)** (learning) — What a 429 rate-limit response means and how to design limits that avoid it.