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OpenAI API Integration: Rate Limits and Fallbacks

Building resilient AI features that gracefully handle API limits and failures.

Published August 7, 20251 min readImportance: ★★★★☆
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OpenAI API Integration: Rate Limits and Fallbacks

AI APIs fail. Rate limits hit. Here's how to build features that degrade gracefully.

The Problem

OpenAI has rate limits on tokens per minute and requests per minute. Hit them, and your feature breaks for all users.

Solution: Request Queue with Backoff

Fallback Strategy

When AI fails, show cached results or a graceful message. Never let an AI failure break core functionality.