Hey folks, hoping to get some clarity here. I've been loving Ideogram for automating our social media image generation, but I just ran into a frustrating API limit wall during a big batch job.
I was processing about 200 image requests for a campaign, spacing them out with a 1-second delay between calls in my Zapier setup. I thought I was being respectful of the system, but I still got rate-limited about halfway through. The error wasn't super clear—just a generic 429. My understanding was the limits were fairly generous for the tier I'm on. Has anyone else hit this?
Here's what my workflow looked like:
* Trigger: New row in Google Sheets (with a prompt and style parameter).
* Action: Ideogram "Generate Image" API step in Zapier.
* Delay: 1 second between iterations.
* Store: Result URL back to the sheet.
A few things I'm wondering:
* Are the limits based on concurrent connections, not just request frequency? Maybe my Zap was opening too many at once?
* Does the complexity of the prompt (like using multiple style modifiers) "cost" more against the limit?
* Is there a daily rolling window, or a per-minute burst limit I should know about?
Any insights or shared experiences would be awesome. I need to make this batch process reliable! 🚀
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