What is the SEC EDGAR rate limit?
The SEC asks automated clients to stay at or below 10 requests per second across all machines and to declare a User-Agent with a company name and contact email. Clients that exceed it are temporarily blocked, which shows up as HTTP 403 responses.
sec-api.dev paces its own SEC traffic and serves cached results, so your requests are counted against your plan quota instead.
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Written by sec-api.dev, updated 9 November 2026. Numbers recompute from SEC data every six hours.
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