# Limits

No sign-up. Short lists are free; full evidence has a daily allowance. Searches, specialty lists and waiting lists are free; opening a doctor's evidence with `get_doctor` counts toward a daily allowance. Days run on UTC. The New Zealand service counts separately from the United States service.

| | With an account key | Without an account |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | By invitation during testing; there is no sign-up | Available: no sign-up, limited per network address as below. |
| Different doctors' evidence per day | 100 | 5 per network address |
| Requests per minute | 60 | 30 |
| Requests per day | 1,000 | 300 |

- Results per search: up to 10; paging stops at 30.
- Doctors per `get_doctor` call: up to 10.
- Opening the same doctor again the same UTC day does not count again.
- Requests from the Claude and ChatGPT apps are recognised by the network addresses Anthropic and OpenAI publish, and share their own daily allowances.
- The service also has daily totals across all connections. When one is reached, the reply says so and when it resets.

When the daily doctor allowance runs out partway through a `get_doctor` call, the doctors that fit are returned, the rest are listed in `left_out`, and the reply starts with `daily_doctor_limit`, which says when the allowance resets. When a single doctor is asked for and nothing is left, the HTTP API answers `429` and MCP returns a tool error with the same message. Request rate limits also answer `429`, with `Retry-After`. An agent should tell the person, not retry in a loop.

Limits can change during testing. This page and [https://api-nz.findadoctor.si/llms.txt](https://api-nz.findadoctor.si/llms.txt) show the current values.

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Web page: https://findadoctor.si/nz/docs/limits/ · FindADoctor.si New Zealand · data version nz-public-2026-10-15.5 · Not medical advice; in an emergency, call 111.