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Cross-Provider Rate Limit Orchestration for AI Agents
Coordinate token-bucket and TPM/RPM budgets across multiple LLM providers in one agent fleet.
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The main moves in order
- 1The premise
- 2rate limiting
- 3TPM
- 4RPM
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The premise
Agents that ignore provider rate limits cause cascading failures — central orchestration prevents it.
What AI does well here
- Track token-per-minute usage per provider per tenant.
- Apply backpressure before 429s rather than after.
- Spread bursty traffic across regions and keys.
What AI cannot do
- Negotiate higher quotas with providers in real time.
- Predict the next limit change from a provider.
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