Limits & quotas

Document, storage, and rate limits for the Aether API.

Plan limits

Limits are set per organization and vary by plan. Current values for your account are shown in the Aether Dashboard.

When a quota is exhausted, the API returns 402 Plan Limit Exceeded. See Troubleshooting: Plan limit exceeded.

If you need higher limits for a production workload or enterprise deployment, contact sales@aetherdb.ai.

Rate limits

Aether enforces per-organization rate limits, which vary by plan tier. When you exceed the limit, the API returns 429 Too Many Requests with a retry-after header in seconds. Back off and retry after that delay — see Troubleshooting: Rate limit errors for sample backoff code.

The SDKs retry transient failures, including 429, with exponential backoff and respect retry-after when the API sends it. They do not queue, throttle, or batch sustained traffic for you, so add those controls in your application when needed.

Supported file types

Text-based formats are indexed natively. Binary office formats (PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel) are extracted and indexed automatically.

Files in unsupported formats return 422 Unprocessable Entity.