# Zoom announces new V2 REST API rate limits for March 2020

DevFeed: [Zoom announces new V2 REST API rate limits for March 2020](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/new-api-rate-limiter-24765.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://medium.com/zoom-developer-blog/new-api-rate-limits-for-zoom-api-march-2020-993bdfb79d32?source=rss----4a85731adaff---4>)

Author: Benjamin Dean

Published: 2020-02-14T03:01:01Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [Zoom Developer Blog - Medium](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/zoom-developer-blog-medium.md>)

Topics: [API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api.md>), [zoom](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/zoom.md>), [REST API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/rest-api.md>), [Platform Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/platform-engineering.md>)

Tags: [api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/api.md>), [apis](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/apis.md>), [apps](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/apps.md>), [developer](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developer.md>), [infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure.md>), [organization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/organization.md>), [platform-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/platform-engineering.md>), [rate-limiting](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rate-limiting.md>), [release](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/release.md>), [request](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/request.md>), [rest](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rest.md>), [rest-api](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rest-api.md>), [scale](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/scale.md>), [updates](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/updates.md>), [zoom](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/zoom.md>)

## AI overview

Zoom announces new V2 REST API rate limits planned for March 2020. The limits will vary by customer account type and API request group, with changes intended to better accommodate organization size and API usage.

## Source excerpt

New V2 API Rate Limits coming March 2020! To ensure Zoom's V2 REST API continues powering your business automations and Marketplace apps at scale, we will be releasing new V2 REST API Rate Limits in March 2020! What's wrong with current V2 API Rate Limits? Zoom's Platform Engineering Team continually monitors activity and usage of our APIs for all our customers. Last year, we identified the need to improve the current "one-size-fits-all" V2 API Rate Limits to continue satisfying customer demand of our V2 API. Screenshot of current global Rate Limits as published on Zoom Developer Docs in Feb 2020 Current V2 API Rate Limits are the same for all Zoom Plans with access to the API: Pro, Business, Enterprise, and so on as published in the Zoom Developer Docs. The current API Rate Limits will not scale with customer's organization growth AND their increased usage of the V2 API. In March, we'll release the new API Rate Limits, and this can impact your apps and code, so I wanted to share these changes... What is Changing? The new V2 API Rate Limiter being released in March 2020 has been a huge improvement and will ensure Zoom scales to satisfy both your organization size and usage volume. The new API Rate Limits are based on the Customer's Account Type + API Request Group. How are Zoom Customer's Account Types Defined? For this first iteration, we've defined Account Types by making two logical groups of Zoom Plans... Table showing the logical grouping of Zoom Plans to create "Account Types" for new API Rate LimitsWhat is an API Request Group? API Request Groups, also called Request Types, are another logical grouping we've created grouping APIs with respect to infrastructure importance and load-intensity we need available to power the respective APIs for all our customers. Screenshot from new V2 API Rate Limit developer docs showing Request TypesNew V2 API Rate Limits We combine the Account Types and cross-reference them with the Request Types, and that is the new V2 API Rate L