API rate limit increase request

Hi,

We are working on a service that checks the Companies House API in real-time and produces reports for our clients. During working hours we may have a sudden increase in the requests and hit the API rate limit. Could you please increase our limit?

Many thanks

600 requests in a 5 minute window is the limit.
That does mean you can do 600 requests in just a couple of seconds, which is usually enough for most applications. you would then have to wait until the 5 min window is ‘renewed’ of course.
That’s around 72,000 requests in a working day.
We also have a number of bulk products that may better suit your business model.

Thanks for the response.
Our users request information for a few hundred companies at once and we generate the reports in less than 20 seconds. When two or more clients send requests together we could easily hit the limit and have to delay the responses for 5 minutes. During busy hours of the morning these 5 minute delays could add up and cause a significant delay for some of the responses.
I there a way to increase the 600?
By bulk do you mean the basic company data (Companies House) or something else?
Thanks

Could you have someone contact me to indicate what it takes to increase the rate limit under certain circumstances for our application? Based on the implications of that, a decision whether we need to go for a different model for our application can be taken.