> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Rate limits

> Control polling and generation concurrency without duplicating work.

Request limits depend on the deployed API gateway and service configuration. The current Podcast contract does not publish a universal requests-per-second or generation-concurrency quota.

Use bounded concurrency, honor HTTP 429 and `Retry-After` when present, and retry transient read failures with exponential backoff and jitter. Ask [support](mailto:support@podcastor.ai) about capacity for your workload.

## Poll asynchronous tasks

A practical client starting point is one poll every 3-5 seconds, increasing the interval for long renders. This is a client recommendation, not a service limit or completion-time guarantee. Stop when the operation reaches a terminal state and enforce a timeout in your application.

Queueing and provider generation time are separate from HTTP request duration. Keep the returned native task and project IDs so another process can resume monitoring.

## Retry generation deliberately

Do not resubmit generation on each poll or automatically submit a new job after a network timeout. Use [idempotency and status checks](/api-reference/quickstart/error-handling) to resolve whether the original request was accepted.