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Question Re: Rate Limiting

Workflow - Code Included

So I put together a flow that scores jobs against my resume, and occasionally I'm running into rate limits. I've tried to work around this with weight nodes and batching, but they occasionally still pop up.

One of the things I'm wondering and couldn't really verify is:

  • Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite is the model I'm using. What's the rate limit there, if anyone knows?
  • I'm using Open Router, but the error that I get says Open AI rate limit reached, but I'm not using OpenAI anywhere in the model itself. Has anyone ran into this before?

I did some digging but can't seem to figure out why it's still throwing the code occasionally. The batch size is around 30 so I can always down a little more.

Wait time is 10 seconds in between batches.

I average about 2-3M tokens per day, if that's helpful.

Here's a screenshot for reference

https://preview.redd.it/n0zbxkw5fplg1.png?width=352&format=png&auto=webp&s=af9636bba8940431de7e50f3aa70f6d0dea3e91a

https://preview.redd.it/t8pl4dcafplg1.png?width=595&format=png&auto=webp&s=07fecf3328711418d09d61b5002ecddbd91edd41

Here's a link to the full zip doc with the entire flow and walkthroughs.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xFcZsADNW1WF3oPewmKMjnikjGkThQ5V/view?usp=sharing

Posted Feb 25, 2026, 9:02 PM UTC

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