Usage limits

Understand monthly quotas and response headers.

Usage is counted per account and key environment.

Plan	Monthly checks
Free	100
Shield	10,000

Test and live usage are stored in separate counters. Each accepted check increments the counter before policy evaluation.

Response headers

Successful checks include:

X-SignupBear-Usage: 42
X-SignupBear-Limit: 100

When the current monthly bucket is full, SignupBear returns HTTP 429 with MONTHLY_LIMIT_EXCEEDED.

These are monthly plan limits, not a promise about burst throughput. Clients should use a short timeout and bounded retry policy.