# Rate Limit, is it a issue for you **URL:** \ **Category:** Alpaca Account Troubleshooting\ **Created:** [February 13, 2020, 1:21am UTC](https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/rate-limit-is-it-a-issue-for-you/778 "2020-02-13T01:21:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Straya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@Straya](https://forum.alpaca.markets/u/Straya)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2020, 1:21am UTC](https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/rate-limit-is-it-a-issue-for-you/778/1 "2020-02-13T01:21:28Z")
200 request per minute limit. Does anyone building app find this to be limiting factor? Is it possible to pay for increase in rate limit? ---
**Author:** ![kris](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.alpaca.markets/kris/32/163_2.png) [@kris](https://forum.alpaca.markets/u/kris)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2020, 7:05am UTC](https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/rate-limit-is-it-a-issue-for-you/778/2 "2020-02-13T07:05:07Z")
no issue, here’s a tissue ---
**Author:** ![Juan\_Rousselot](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.alpaca.markets/juan_rousselot/32/543_2.png) [@Juan\_Rousselot](https://forum.alpaca.markets/u/Juan_Rousselot)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2020, 4:45pm UTC](https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/rate-limit-is-it-a-issue-for-you/778/3 "2020-10-16T16:45:12Z")
How ‘respectful’ do I need to be with the rate limit? Let’s say I do 150-190 per minute - Am I abusing something and prone to get slow-downs, etc? ---
**Author:** ![Juan\_Rousselot](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.alpaca.markets/juan_rousselot/32/543_2.png) [@Juan\_Rousselot](https://forum.alpaca.markets/u/Juan_Rousselot)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2020, 4:53pm UTC](https://forum.alpaca.markets/t/rate-limit-is-it-a-issue-for-you/778/4 "2020-10-16T16:53:20Z")
Also maybe an incredibly dumb programming question… Let’s say I have the following code: response = check\_position(stock) _where check\_position() is a get request to check alpaca positions_ and then I do: print(response) print(response) print(response) Am I sending a request to Alpaca 1x…? or 4x?