How this calculator works
Enter requests per period, period seconds, concurrent workers. CalcStack applies the displayed formula and reports each intermediate planning value with the units shown.
Formula / method
Average request rate = requests ÷ period; minimum spacing = period ÷ requests
Worked example
10,000 requests per 60 seconds equals 166.67 requests/s with 6 ms average spacing.
Assumptions and limitations
The limit is evenly usable across the entire period.
Sliding windows, burst quotas, retries, endpoint-specific limits and network latency may require more conservative pacing.