Don’t Rush to Switch Models When You Hit a 429: 3 Steps to Determine Who Is Rate Limiting You, Plus 5 Configuration Items for Backoff and Failover
Author’s note: When you hit a 429, you don’t have to switch models right away. This article walks through a 3-step triage to figure out whether the rate limit comes from the upstream provider, the gateway, or the free tier — and then shows how to configure exponential backoff, Retry-After, and failover. It’s the middle…