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Getting a Kimi API Key Is the Easy Part — Here's the Rate Limit Gotcha That Actually Bites

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I hit a rate limit on my second day using Moonshot AI's Kimi API, after maybe fifteen total requests. That number should have been nowhere near any limit worth worrying about, and for a while I assumed I'd misread the docs or fat-fingered a loop somewhere in my test script. The actual cause turned…

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  1. 2026-09-08 07:29 · DEV Community — AI
    Getting a Kimi API Key Is the Easy Part — Here's the Rate Limit Gotcha That Actually Bites

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