# API seems to not be working very well

**URL:** <https://community.perplexity.ai/t/api-seems-to-not-be-working-very-well/46>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [May 15, 2025, 12:10am UTC](https://community.perplexity.ai/t/api-seems-to-not-be-working-very-well/46 "2025-05-15T00:10:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![vikvang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/67e7ee/32.png) [@vikvang](https://community.perplexity.ai/u/vikvang)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2025, 12:10am UTC](https://community.perplexity.ai/t/api-seems-to-not-be-working-very-well/46/1 "2025-05-15T00:10:05Z")

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Currently trying to do some experimental work with the API. It was returning some reasonably good results but for a while now it’s been throwing a lot of 500 errors. Moreover, I recently got a full blown HTML error response page which is very strange behaviour for an API.

Edit: I’m also receiving rate limiting errors despite having purposefully limited my testing to do no more than 5/min to stay well under the rate limits. No idea why this is being returned.

What’s worse is that I seem to be being charged for the API to only send back errors!

Do you have plans to improve the API?

I’d be happy to share some of my queries/responses for sake of improvement.

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**Author:** ![vikvang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/67e7ee/32.png) [@vikvang](https://community.perplexity.ai/u/vikvang)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2025, 12:10am UTC](https://community.perplexity.ai/t/api-seems-to-not-be-working-very-well/46/2 "2025-05-15T00:10:08Z")

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Hey @iainmck29! Could you please share some of the queries you are sending?