Quotas and limits in Yandex Search API

Yandex Search API has the following limits:

  • Quotas are organizational restrictions that can be changed by technical support on request.
  • Limits are technical limitations due to Yandex Cloud architectural features. The limits cannot be changed.

Quotas

Type of limit Value
Number of synchronous requests per hour 10,000
Number of synchronous requests per second 10
Number of synchronous requests per second to get a generative response 1
Number of deferred requests per hour 35,000
Number of deferred requests per second 10
Number of requests per second for results of a deferred request 10
Number of requests per hour for search with generative response 1,000
Number of requests per hour for image search by text description 10,000
Number of requests per second for image search by text description 10
Number of requests per hour for image search by image 36,000
Number of requests per second for image search by image 10
Number of requests per second for statistics 10
Number of requests per hour for statistics 100

Limits

Type of limit Value
Number of results returned Up to 250
Maximum request length 400 characters
Maximum number of words per request 40 words
Minimum processing time for a request in deferred mode 5 minutes
Maximum retention time of deferred request results 12 hours
Requests with generative response
Maximum number of websites per request 5
Maximum number of hosts per request 5
Maximum number of pages per request 10