Number of requests has exceeded your rate limit
You’ve exceeded Claude’s requests-per-minute or tokens-per-minute limit for your tier. The API returns 429; back off, retry, and reduce burst load to recover.
Standard Compute routes across frontier providers (including Claude-class models) behind one endpoint with no per-minute cap — so a single provider’s rate limit doesn’t stall your workload.
Yes — Anthropic enforces both requests-per-minute and tokens-per-minute per tier, plus a daily token cap on some tiers. Large prompts hit the token limit first.