Limits
Limits of API endpoints and features
Limits are enforced at the API key level.
- Search API: You can see your type of access and daily search credits in the Developer Tab 🔒 on your user account page.
- Leaks API: It uses separate daily credits available in the API status page 🔒 of the Identity Portal.
Search
intelx.io
Following limits and timeouts apply to searches on intelx.io. They also applies to the Search API endpoint /intelligent/search.
| Function | free.intelx.io (Free Users) | 2.intelx.io (Paid Users) |
|---|---|---|
| Max Results Per Bucket | 200 | 1000 |
| Max Concurrent Searches | 5 | 10 |
| Search Timeout | 1 minute | 2 minutes |
| Keep Results Timeout | 3 minutes | 10 minutes |
identity.intelx.io
The following limits and timeouts apply to searches on identity.intelx.io and the Leaks API endpoint /live/search/internal:
| Function | 3.intelx.io (API) | 4.intelx.io (UI) |
|---|---|---|
| Max Results Per Bucket | 10000 | 10000 |
| Max Concurrent Searches | 2 | 2 |
| Search Timeout | 5 minutes | 5 minutes |
| Keep Results Timeout | 10 minutes | 10 minutes |
Export ZIP File
The following fixed data limits apply to ZIP exports on intelx.io:
- There is a hard cap of 2 GB of data files uncompressed.
- There is a hard cap of 1000 files per ZIP export.
- Files within the ZIP file are hard capped at 20 MB.
- Files are fetched with a 4 second internal timeout. If they are not available during that time, they are added as empty dummy files with the “[timeout]” tag in their file name.
Read File
| Function | free.intelx.io (Free Users) | 2.intelx.io (Paid Users) |
|---|---|---|
Size limit for /file/view |
20 MB | 30 MB |
Size limit for /file/read |
50 MB | 100 MB |