Designing for Airtable API Limits

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I’m hitting Airtable’s monthly 100k API limit much faster than expected these days. I’ve got an internal tool for about 40 users.

We have about 3k records. Some pages load up a ton of records at once (I use the infinite scroll tables, for instance.)

Does anyone have any tips/advice on how to design to limit the number of API calls I’m making? Or is this a fool’s errand and I should just pay for more?

(…and before someone says it – yes, I’m very much considering moving entirely to Softr’s databases. But we are mid-project and it’s going to be hard to move over right away).

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Hi,

Here is a documentation page about it: Troubleshooting Airtable API call limit exceeded – Softr Help Docs

You can try removing infinite scroll as a minimal solution (pagination to be preferred) — but upgrading your Airtable plan might end up being necessary sooner than you think, unfortunately :sweat_smile:.