API Specifications

Rate Limiting

Depending on the amount of usage, such as making highly concurrent API calls, may result in your app being rate limited. The default WellSaid API key is currently limited to 3 requests per 1 second and 1000 characters per request, along with your monthly quota of characters per month. For higher concurrency, please reach out to WellSaid to discuss additional options. There are no hard limits on the monthly quotas, as we charge for monthly character usage and overages and as not to disrupt any services you are offering with our API.

Requests made to the WellSaid API will return the following HTTP response headers:

x-quota-limit: The maximum number of requests available in the current time frame.
x-quota-remaining: The number of requests remaining in the current time frame. x-quota-reset: A UNIX timestamp of the expected time when the quota limit will reset. x-rate-limit-limit: The maximum number of requests available in the current time frame. x-rate-limit-remaining: The number of requests available in the current time frame. x-rate-limit-reset: A UNIX timestamp of the expected time when the rate limit will reset.

We have higher rate limit configurations available. Please ask your WellSaid contact for more information.

Time to first Byte

WellSaid API returns a stream of an audio file as a response, not the actual file itself.