Rate limits

Rate limits protect the platform from abuse and keep latency predictable. They apply in layers: IP / edge limits for anonymous tools, workspace scan cadence for product scans, and plan quotas for how much of the product you can use.

Free tools and quick scan

Public free tools (schema, robots.txt, metadata, FAQ helpers, crawlability checks, and similar) and quick-scan endpoints are rate limited per client IP. These utilities are not a Free plan — product scans require Pro Early Adopter. Limits use a sliding window; exceeding them returns a retry-later response.

• Tool endpoints share a tools bucket (on the order of tens of requests per minute per IP).
• LLM-backed helpers use a stricter bucket.
• Attribution collect traffic uses a higher-throughput bucket appropriate for pageview beacons.
• When distributed Redis is unavailable, limits fall back to per-instance memory (weaker under multi-instance load).

Product scan cadence

• Authenticated workspaces also have a soft anti-abuse cap on scan creation per hour (shared across manual and monitoring starts).
• This is separate from subscription entitlements.
• If you see a “scan limit reached / hour” message, wait and retry — it is not a missing-subscription wall by itself.

Plan quotas and entitlements

Product access is subscription-based. There is no Free plan. VisibleMax Pro Early Adopter (7-day free trial, then $50/year) includes unlimited scans (fair-use meters apply), full recommendations, history, competitors (up to 3), weekly monitoring, and Content Studio.

• Without an active trial or paid subscription, product scans stay gated — start at /start.
• A payment method is required before the trial; you are not charged during the trial.
• Entitlements sync from Polar subscriptions; past-due or cancelled states remove Pro access after the entitled period ends.
• See Billing and Manage billing for offer details.

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