Stop Counting Requests: The Case for Token-Based Quotas in LLM SaaS
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If you are building a multi-tenant AI application, your current rate-limiting strategy is likely broken. Traditional "requests per minute" (RPM) metrics, inherited from standard REST APIs, fail catastrophically when applied to Large Language Models. This isn't just an imprecision; it is a fundament…
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- 2026-09-22 11:42 · DEV Community — AI
Stop Counting Requests: The Case for Token-Based Quotas in LLM SaaS