# 429 API Rate Limit Error **URL:** \ **Category:** Data Hub\ **Created:** [March 16, 2022, 8:27am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/429-api-rate-limit-error/53250 "2022-03-16T08:27:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![tfoston01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/91b2a8/32.png) [@tfoston01](https://community.hubspot.com/u/tfoston01)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2022, 1:34pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/429-api-rate-limit-error/53250/3 "2022-04-16T13:34:28Z")
Looking at this phrase… If the call fails due to a rate limiting error, or a 429 or 5XX error from axios or @hubspot/api-client, HubSpot will reattempt to execute your action for up to three days, starting one minute after failure. Subsequent failures will be retried at increasing intervals, with a maximum gap of eight hours between tries Unless your script is also going to run long to take full advantage of the long time span of re-trying you shouldn’t count on this. When you’re running into persistent API rate limiting issues, you’ll want to consider some level of decoupling to your flow. I would suggest looking into making a job queue to break up your processes up so that you’re better able to regulate the API calls --- _[View the full topic](https://community.hubspot.com/t/429-api-rate-limit-error/53250)._