limitPolicies

Update a limit policy

Update mutable fields (name, scope, rules, priority, is_active). Immutable fields are ignored.

patch/api/limit-policies/{id}/

Path parameters

idstring uuid required

Limit policy id.

Headers

Authorizationstring required

Use your Respan API key for Respan API authentication. Enter only the Respan API key value; clients send Authorization: Bearer <RESPAN_API_KEY>. For /api/responses, provider credentials such as Perplexity, OpenAI, or Azure OpenAI go in Settings -> Providers or respan_params.credential_override in the request body, not in this authentication field.

Request body

namestring

scopestring

priorityinteger

is_activeboolean

Response

The updated policy.

idstring uuid

namestring

Human label.

scopestring

Display category (e.g. API Key, Model). Not used for matching.

scope_valuestring

Identity to meter. For composites, a JSON list of values in compose order.

composestring[]

Empty for single-dimension policies. Members: organization_id, api_key_id, user_id, customer_identifier, model, endpoint.

metric'cost' | 'request_count' | 'token_count'

What the cap counts. cost is US dollars, token_count is total tokens, request_count is calls.

algorithm'balance_fixed_window'

balance_fixed_window is the shipped algorithm. token_bucket is reserved and not yet enforced.

periodstring nullable

Cadence. A named bucket (minute, hour, day, week, month), a positive integer of seconds as a string, or null for a cumulative (lifetime) cap that never resets.

anchor'calendar' | 'first_event' | 'explicit_ts'

When a recurring window aligns. calendar resets on the boundary (e.g. the 1st of the month).

anchor_atstring date-time nullable

Required when anchor is not calendar.

effective_atstring date-time nullable

Active-range start. null = live since forever.

expires_atstring date-time nullable

Active-range end. null = live until deactivated. Must be after effective_at.

priorityinteger

Higher is checked first.

is_activeboolean

threshold_valuenumber double

First hard-rule threshold; falls back to the largest soft threshold.

meter_definition_idstring

Stable hash of the policy identity. Same identity resolves to the same id across recreations.

created_atstring date-time

updated_atstring date-time

Changes

No recorded changes to this endpoint across all 1 revision of this API.