Rate-limited requests now return an HTTP 429 error, no longer including the rate_limit field

Breaking changes

Rate-limited requests now return an HTTP 429 error, no longer including the rate_limit field Breaking changes

What’s new

Updates API rate limit errors to return a 429 HTTP status code instead of 400. They also no longer return a rate_limit error code.

Impact

API rate limit errors now return 429 HTTP status code instead of 400, aligning with standard rate limiting practices.

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