[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":1335},["ShallowReactive",2],{"content-\u002Fresources\u002Fmore\u002Fquote-api-latency-timeouts":3,"resources-category-quote-api-latency-timeouts":541},{"id":4,"title":5,"authors":6,"body":7,"categories":6,"category":511,"categoryType":6,"compare":6,"contributors":6,"date":512,"description":513,"extension":514,"faq":515,"howto":6,"isBlog":531,"isChangelog":531,"meta":532,"navigation":534,"path":535,"pillar":531,"products":6,"rawbody":536,"role":6,"seo":537,"seoTitle":538,"stem":539,"thumbnail":6,"updated":512,"__hash__":540},"content\u002Fresources\u002Fmore\u002Fquote-api-latency-timeouts.md","How fast should a quote API respond? Latency, timeouts, and the quote window",null,{"type":8,"value":9,"toc":499},"minimark",[10,14,23,29,60,65,68,79,87,91,94,104,107,125,128,132,141,144,232,235,239,242,259,265,279,285,289,296,326,358,366,370,373,448,451,454,458,461,481,484,488],[11,12,13],"p",{},"A quote API should answer well inside the time your user will wait, and your client timeout should come from measured tail latency, not a guess. The number that matters is not the average. It's the p99, and how much of the quote window the slowest call, a retry, and the approval step eat before you execute.",[11,15,16,17,22],{},"Most teams never look at this until a payout fails with an expired quote and nobody can say where the five minutes went. The math is simple once it's on a whiteboard. This page puts it there. For why the window exists at all, start with ",[18,19,21],"a",{"href":20},"\u002Fresources\u002Fmore\u002Fhow-onramp-offramp-providers-make-money","how on\u002Foff-ramp providers make money",", since every locked second is risk somebody prices.",[11,24,25],{},[26,27,28],"strong",{},"Key takeaways",[30,31,32,36,39,42,50,53],"ul",{},[33,34,35],"li",{},"Track latency as a distribution. The mean hides the slow calls that break short quote windows.",[33,37,38],{},"Set timeouts from a false-timeout target: 0.1% of calls timing out points to the p99.9.",[33,40,41],{},"A 5-minute quote forgives slow calls. A 10-second OTC quote doesn't.",[33,43,44,45,49],{},"Read ",[46,47,48],"code",{},"expires_at"," (epoch milliseconds) from every response instead of hardcoding a TTL.",[33,51,52],{},"Cache indicative rates for seconds. Hold a binding quote only until it expires.",[33,54,55,56,59],{},"Retry with backoff, jitter, and an ",[46,57,58],{},"Idempotency-Key",", resending the exact same body.",[61,62,64],"h2",{"id":63},"why-does-quote-latency-matter-if-the-quote-lasts-5-minutes","Why does quote latency matter if the quote lasts 5 minutes?",[11,66,67],{},"Because the window is shared. The clock starts when the provider creates the quote, and everything after that runs against it: the response traveling back, your UI rendering the amount, a human approving, and the execute call.",[11,69,70,71,75,76,78],{},"On BlindPay, payin and payout quotes default to 5 minutes. OTC payin quotes expire in 10 seconds, and SEPA payout quotes can be shorter than 5 minutes because the rail's own deadline can be tighter (",[18,72,74],{"href":73},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fkb\u002Fcut-off-times","cut-off times","). That's why the docs say to read ",[46,77,48],{}," rather than assume a fixed lifetime.",[11,80,81,82,86],{},"A 2-second slow response is 0.7% of a 5-minute window. Rounding error. The same 2 seconds is 20% of a 10-second OTC window. Not great. Short windows exist because the provider is holding a price in a moving market; ",[18,83,85],{"href":84},"\u002Fresources\u002Fmore\u002Flocked-quote-free-option-last-look","why a locked quote costs money"," explains that trade.",[61,88,90],{"id":89},"which-latency-numbers-should-you-measure","Which latency numbers should you measure?",[11,92,93],{},"Measure p50, p95, and p99 per endpoint, and track failed calls separately from successful ones. Averages lie about payments.",[11,95,96,97,103],{},"Google's SRE book makes the point with an example: a service with a 100 ms average can still have 1% of requests take 5 seconds, and when several backends feed one page, \"the 99th percentile of one backend can easily become the median response of your frontend\" (",[18,98,102],{"href":99,"rel":100},"https:\u002F\u002Fsre.google\u002Fsre-book\u002Fmonitoring-distributed-systems\u002F",[101],"nofollow","Google SRE book","). It also warns that \"a slow error is even worse than a fast error\", so don't filter errors out of your latency charts.",[11,105,106],{},"What to record on every quote call:",[108,109,110,113,116,122],"ol",{},[33,111,112],{},"Request start and response end, from your own server, in milliseconds.",[33,114,115],{},"The HTTP status and error code, if any.",[33,117,118,119,121],{},"The quote ID and ",[46,120,48],{},".",[33,123,124],{},"The time left on the quote when you called execute.",[11,126,127],{},"The fourth one is the metric people skip. It tells you directly whether latency plus human time is eating the window. Bucket all of it into histograms, the format the SRE book recommends, so the tail is visible.",[61,129,131],{"id":130},"how-do-you-set-a-client-timeout-for-a-quote-request","How do you set a client timeout for a quote request?",[11,133,134,135,140],{},"Start from a target false-timeout rate, then read the percentile. AWS describes the method for its own services: \"we choose an acceptable rate of false timeouts (such as 0.1%). Then, we look at the corresponding latency percentile on the downstream service (p99.9 in this example)\" (",[18,136,139],{"href":137,"rel":138},"https:\u002F\u002Fbuilder.aws.com\u002Fcontent\u002F3EumjoZascWd1oZiEgL8ORlv3qE\u002Ftimeouts-retries-and-backoff-with-jitter",[101],"AWS Builders' Library",").",[11,142,143],{},"Then cap it with a budget tied to the window. A timeout is only useful if a retry can still finish inside the quote's life.",[145,146,147,166],"table",{},[148,149,150],"thead",{},[151,152,153,157,160,163],"tr",{},[154,155,156],"th",{},"Call",[154,158,159],{},"What it does",[154,161,162],{},"Timeout guidance",[154,164,165],{},"Retry?",[167,168,169,188,202,216],"tbody",{},[151,170,171,179,182,185],{},[172,173,174,175,178],"td",{},"Indicative rate (",[46,176,177],{},"\u002Fpayin-quotes\u002Ffx",")",[172,180,181],{},"Preview price, reserves nothing",[172,183,184],{},"Short; drop stale previews",[172,186,187],{},"Yes, freely",[151,189,190,193,196,199],{},[172,191,192],{},"Payin or payout quote",[172,194,195],{},"Locks rate and fees for the window",[172,197,198],{},"Near your measured p99.9",[172,200,201],{},"Yes, same body",[151,203,204,207,210,213],{},[172,205,206],{},"OTC payin quote",[172,208,209],{},"Locks a BRL price for 10 seconds",[172,211,212],{},"Small slice of 10 seconds",[172,214,215],{},"Only if time remains",[151,217,218,221,224,227],{},[172,219,220],{},"Execute payout or payin",[172,222,223],{},"Moves money",[172,225,226],{},"Near p99.9, plus margin",[172,228,229,230],{},"Only with ",[46,231,58],{},[11,233,234],{},"If your measured p99.9 for a quote call is longer than you can afford on a short window, the fix is not a shorter timeout. It's a flow change: request the quote at the moment of confirmation, not when the page loads.",[61,236,238],{"id":237},"should-you-cache-quotes-or-rates","Should you cache quotes or rates?",[11,240,241],{},"Cache rates, not commitments. The two calls behave differently.",[11,243,244,245,248,249,253,254,258],{},"An indicative rate reserves nothing. BlindPay's ",[46,246,247],{},"POST \u002Fpayin-quotes\u002Ffx"," returns a rate and amount \"without creating a payin quote\", and the docs say plainly that its numbers \"aren't guaranteed to match the quote you get\" a moment later (",[18,250,252],{"href":251},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fpayin-quotes","payin quotes","). Caching that for a few seconds behind a typing field is fine. ",[18,255,257],{"href":256},"\u002Fresources\u002Fmore\u002Findicative-rate-vs-binding-quote-api","Indicative rate vs binding quote"," covers the two-call pattern.",[11,260,261,262,264],{},"A binding quote is different. You can hold its ID until ",[46,263,48],{}," to execute it once. You can't reuse it for another amount, another recipient, or after expiry. Two mistakes show up often:",[30,266,267,273],{},[33,268,269,272],{},[26,270,271],{},"Caching a quote on page load."," The user reads, gets coffee, and clicks pay on a dead quote.",[33,274,275,278],{},[26,276,277],{},"Showing a cached amount after re-quoting."," The screen says one number, the payout settles another.",[11,280,281,282,284],{},"Rule of thumb: the number on the confirm button must come from a quote whose ",[46,283,48],{}," is still in the future when the click lands.",[61,286,288],{"id":287},"how-do-retries-work-without-creating-duplicates","How do retries work without creating duplicates?",[11,290,291,292,295],{},"With idempotency keys, backoff, and jitter. Retries are selfish: AWS notes that \"when a client retries, it spends more of the server's time to get a higher chance of success\", and that retries \"can make the overload worse\" (",[18,293,139],{"href":137,"rel":294},[101],"). So space them out with exponential backoff and add jitter.",[11,297,298,299,302,303,302,306,309,310,313,314,317,318,320,321,325],{},"The money side needs more than spacing. On BlindPay, any authenticated ",[46,300,301],{},"POST",", ",[46,304,305],{},"PUT",[46,307,308],{},"PATCH",", or ",[46,311,312],{},"DELETE"," under ",[46,315,316],{},"\u002Fv1\u002F*"," accepts an ",[46,319,58],{}," header of up to 255 characters (",[18,322,324],{"href":323},"\u002Fdocs\u002Flearn\u002Fidempotency","idempotency","):",[30,327,328,331,337,348,355],{},[33,329,330],{},"A retry replays only if the body matches byte for byte. The check is a SHA-256 of the raw body.",[33,332,333,334,121],{},"Same key, different body returns ",[46,335,336],{},"422 idempotency_key_payload_mismatch",[33,338,339,340,343,344,347],{},"Same key while the first call is still running returns ",[46,341,342],{},"409 idempotency_key_in_flight"," with a ",[46,345,346],{},"Retry-After"," header.",[33,349,350,351,354],{},"A ",[46,352,353],{},"5xx"," releases the key, so the retry runs fresh.",[33,356,357],{},"Keys are kept for 24 hours.",[11,359,360,361,365],{},"Use one key per attempt to execute a specific quote. A new quote gets a new key. ",[18,362,364],{"href":363},"\u002Fresources\u002Fmore\u002Fstablecoin-api-idempotency-keys","Idempotency keys for stablecoin APIs"," walks through the failure modes in depth.",[61,367,369],{"id":368},"illustrative-example-how-much-of-the-window-does-latency-eat","Illustrative example: how much of the window does latency eat?",[11,371,372],{},"Illustrative example. A payout flow with one human approval, measured on a team's own servers. The numbers are made up for the walkthrough, not BlindPay figures.",[145,374,375,391],{},[148,376,377],{},[151,378,379,382,385,388],{},[154,380,381],{},"Step",[154,383,384],{},"Time used",[154,386,387],{},"Time left on a 5-minute quote",[154,389,390],{},"Time left on a 10-second quote",[167,392,393,407,421,435],{},[151,394,395,398,401,404],{},[172,396,397],{},"Quote request (p99)",[172,399,400],{},"1.5 s",[172,402,403],{},"298.5 s",[172,405,406],{},"8.5 s",[151,408,409,412,415,418],{},[172,410,411],{},"Render amount to approver",[172,413,414],{},"0.5 s",[172,416,417],{},"298.0 s",[172,419,420],{},"8.0 s",[151,422,423,426,429,432],{},[172,424,425],{},"Human approval",[172,427,428],{},"45 s",[172,430,431],{},"253.0 s",[172,433,434],{},"Expired",[151,436,437,440,442,445],{},[172,438,439],{},"Execute call (p99)",[172,441,400],{},[172,443,444],{},"251.5 s",[172,446,447],{},"n\u002Fa",[11,449,450],{},"The 5-minute flow finishes with four minutes to spare even on the slow path. The 10-second flow can't fit a human at all. That's the real lesson for OTC: automate the confirmation, or have the approver approve the amount range before the quote is requested.",[11,452,453],{},"Now add one timed-out quote request with a 3-second timeout and a retry. On the 5-minute quote, nothing changes. On the 10-second quote, the retry alone leaves about 5 seconds for everything else.",[61,455,457],{"id":456},"how-do-you-keep-latency-from-breaking-payouts-in-production","How do you keep latency from breaking payouts in production?",[11,459,460],{},"Three habits cover most of it.",[108,462,463,469,475],{},[33,464,465,468],{},[26,466,467],{},"Alert on the tail, not the mean."," Page someone when the p95 of quote calls doubles against last week, before expired quotes show up in support.",[33,470,471,474],{},[26,472,473],{},"Track time left at execute."," If the median drops under a minute on 5-minute quotes, your approval step is the bottleneck, not the API.",[33,476,477,480],{},[26,478,479],{},"Re-quote on expiry, never extend."," An expired quote is rejected. Request a fresh one, show the new amount, and ask again.",[11,482,483],{},"Teams comparing providers should run the same harness against each one from the same region, at the same hours, for a week. Latency differences between providers are often smaller than the differences between your own regions.",[61,485,487],{"id":486},"what-to-do-next","What to do next",[11,489,490,491,493,494,498],{},"Instrument one quote call today: log start, end, status, ",[46,492,48],{},", and the time left when you executed. A week of that data tells you your real timeout and whether your approval flow fits the window. The ",[18,495,497],{"href":496},"\u002Fdocs\u002Fpayout-quotes","payout quotes reference"," has every field you need to log.",{"title":500,"searchDepth":501,"depth":501,"links":502},"",2,[503,504,505,506,507,508,509,510],{"id":63,"depth":501,"text":64},{"id":89,"depth":501,"text":90},{"id":130,"depth":501,"text":131},{"id":237,"depth":501,"text":238},{"id":287,"depth":501,"text":288},{"id":368,"depth":501,"text":369},{"id":456,"depth":501,"text":457},{"id":486,"depth":501,"text":487},"payments","2026-10-03","Measure quote API latency at p50 and p99, set timeouts that fit a 5-minute or 10-second quote window, cache rates safely, and retry without duplicates.","md",[516,519,522,525,528],{"q":517,"a":518},"How fast should a payment quote API respond?","Fast enough that the slowest calls still leave most of the quote window for the user. Measure your own p50, p95, and p99 from your servers, then check the tail against the window. A 5-minute payout quote absorbs a slow response easily. A 10-second OTC quote does not, so for short windows the p99 matters more than the average.",{"q":520,"a":521},"What client timeout should I set on a quote request?","Pick an acceptable false-timeout rate, such as 0.1%, and set the timeout near the matching latency percentile, p99.9 in that case. That is the method AWS describes for its own services. Then cap it with a budget: a timeout that eats half of a 10-second OTC window is too long even if it matches the percentile.",{"q":523,"a":524},"Can I cache a payment quote?","Cache a binding quote only until its expires_at, and only to execute that same quote. Never reuse it for a different amount or show it after expiry. Indicative rates are different: they reserve nothing, so you can cache them for a few seconds to power a price preview, as long as the screen says the final amount comes from the quote.",{"q":526,"a":527},"Is it safe to retry a quote request after a timeout?","Yes, with an idempotency key and backoff. Creating a quote has no money side effect, but executing a payout does, so every create call that moves money should carry an Idempotency-Key header. Retry with exponential backoff plus jitter, resend the exact same body, and use a new key for a new quote rather than reusing an old one.",{"q":529,"a":530},"Why does the quote window matter for latency?","Because every second spent waiting on the network is a second the user cannot spend reviewing the amount. Request time, approval time, and the execute call all run against the same expires_at. On BlindPay, payin and payout quotes default to 5 minutes, OTC payin quotes last 10 seconds, and SEPA payout quotes can be shorter than 5 minutes.",false,{"author":533},"BlindPay Team",true,"\u002Fresources\u002Fmore\u002Fquote-api-latency-timeouts","---\ntitle: \"How fast should a quote API respond? Latency, timeouts, and the quote window\"\nseoTitle: \"Quote API latency: timeouts, retries, and the quote window\"\ndescription: \"Measure quote API latency at p50 and p99, set timeouts that fit a 5-minute or 10-second quote window, cache rates safely, and retry without duplicates.\"\ndate: \"2026-10-03\"\nupdated: \"2026-10-03\"\ncategory: \"payments\"\nauthor: \"BlindPay Team\"\nfaq:\n  - q: \"How fast should a payment quote API respond?\"\n    a: \"Fast enough that the slowest calls still leave most of the quote window for the user. Measure your own p50, p95, and p99 from your servers, then check the tail against the window. A 5-minute payout quote absorbs a slow response easily. A 10-second OTC quote does not, so for short windows the p99 matters more than the average.\"\n  - q: \"What client timeout should I set on a quote request?\"\n    a: \"Pick an acceptable false-timeout rate, such as 0.1%, and set the timeout near the matching latency percentile, p99.9 in that case. That is the method AWS describes for its own services. Then cap it with a budget: a timeout that eats half of a 10-second OTC window is too long even if it matches the percentile.\"\n  - q: \"Can I cache a payment quote?\"\n    a: \"Cache a binding quote only until its expires_at, and only to execute that same quote. Never reuse it for a different amount or show it after expiry. Indicative rates are different: they reserve nothing, so you can cache them for a few seconds to power a price preview, as long as the screen says the final amount comes from the quote.\"\n  - q: \"Is it safe to retry a quote request after a timeout?\"\n    a: \"Yes, with an idempotency key and backoff. Creating a quote has no money side effect, but executing a payout does, so every create call that moves money should carry an Idempotency-Key header. Retry with exponential backoff plus jitter, resend the exact same body, and use a new key for a new quote rather than reusing an old one.\"\n  - q: \"Why does the quote window matter for latency?\"\n    a: \"Because every second spent waiting on the network is a second the user cannot spend reviewing the amount. Request time, approval time, and the execute call all run against the same expires_at. On BlindPay, payin and payout quotes default to 5 minutes, OTC payin quotes last 10 seconds, and SEPA payout quotes can be shorter than 5 minutes.\"\n---\n\nA quote API should answer well inside the time your user will wait, and your client timeout should come from measured tail latency, not a guess. The number that matters is not the average. It's the p99, and how much of the quote window the slowest call, a retry, and the approval step eat before you execute.\n\nMost teams never look at this until a payout fails with an expired quote and nobody can say where the five minutes went. The math is simple once it's on a whiteboard. This page puts it there. For why the window exists at all, start with [how on\u002Foff-ramp providers make money](\u002Fresources\u002Fmore\u002Fhow-onramp-offramp-providers-make-money), since every locked second is risk somebody prices.\n\n**Key takeaways**\n\n- Track latency as a distribution. The mean hides the slow calls that break short quote windows.\n- Set timeouts from a false-timeout target: 0.1% of calls timing out points to the p99.9.\n- A 5-minute quote forgives slow calls. A 10-second OTC quote doesn't.\n- Read `expires_at` (epoch milliseconds) from every response instead of hardcoding a TTL.\n- Cache indicative rates for seconds. Hold a binding quote only until it expires.\n- Retry with backoff, jitter, and an `Idempotency-Key`, resending the exact same body.\n\n## Why does quote latency matter if the quote lasts 5 minutes?\n\nBecause the window is shared. The clock starts when the provider creates the quote, and everything after that runs against it: the response traveling back, your UI rendering the amount, a human approving, and the execute call.\n\nOn BlindPay, payin and payout quotes default to 5 minutes. OTC payin quotes expire in 10 seconds, and SEPA payout quotes can be shorter than 5 minutes because the rail's own deadline can be tighter ([cut-off times](\u002Fdocs\u002Fkb\u002Fcut-off-times)). That's why the docs say to read `expires_at` rather than assume a fixed lifetime.\n\nA 2-second slow response is 0.7% of a 5-minute window. Rounding error. The same 2 seconds is 20% of a 10-second OTC window. Not great. Short windows exist because the provider is holding a price in a moving market; [why a locked quote costs money](\u002Fresources\u002Fmore\u002Flocked-quote-free-option-last-look) explains that trade.\n\n## Which latency numbers should you measure?\n\nMeasure p50, p95, and p99 per endpoint, and track failed calls separately from successful ones. Averages lie about payments.\n\nGoogle's SRE book makes the point with an example: a service with a 100 ms average can still have 1% of requests take 5 seconds, and when several backends feed one page, \"the 99th percentile of one backend can easily become the median response of your frontend\" ([Google SRE book](https:\u002F\u002Fsre.google\u002Fsre-book\u002Fmonitoring-distributed-systems\u002F)). It also warns that \"a slow error is even worse than a fast error\", so don't filter errors out of your latency charts.\n\nWhat to record on every quote call:\n\n1. Request start and response end, from your own server, in milliseconds.\n2. The HTTP status and error code, if any.\n3. The quote ID and `expires_at`.\n4. The time left on the quote when you called execute.\n\nThe fourth one is the metric people skip. It tells you directly whether latency plus human time is eating the window. Bucket all of it into histograms, the format the SRE book recommends, so the tail is visible.\n\n## How do you set a client timeout for a quote request?\n\nStart from a target false-timeout rate, then read the percentile. AWS describes the method for its own services: \"we choose an acceptable rate of false timeouts (such as 0.1%). Then, we look at the corresponding latency percentile on the downstream service (p99.9 in this example)\" ([AWS Builders' Library](https:\u002F\u002Fbuilder.aws.com\u002Fcontent\u002F3EumjoZascWd1oZiEgL8ORlv3qE\u002Ftimeouts-retries-and-backoff-with-jitter)).\n\nThen cap it with a budget tied to the window. A timeout is only useful if a retry can still finish inside the quote's life.\n\n| Call | What it does | Timeout guidance | Retry? |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Indicative rate (`\u002Fpayin-quotes\u002Ffx`) | Preview price, reserves nothing | Short; drop stale previews | Yes, freely |\n| Payin or payout quote | Locks rate and fees for the window | Near your measured p99.9 | Yes, same body |\n| OTC payin quote | Locks a BRL price for 10 seconds | Small slice of 10 seconds | Only if time remains |\n| Execute payout or payin | Moves money | Near p99.9, plus margin | Only with `Idempotency-Key` |\n\nIf your measured p99.9 for a quote call is longer than you can afford on a short window, the fix is not a shorter timeout. It's a flow change: request the quote at the moment of confirmation, not when the page loads.\n\n## Should you cache quotes or rates?\n\nCache rates, not commitments. The two calls behave differently.\n\nAn indicative rate reserves nothing. BlindPay's `POST \u002Fpayin-quotes\u002Ffx` returns a rate and amount \"without creating a payin quote\", and the docs say plainly that its numbers \"aren't guaranteed to match the quote you get\" a moment later ([payin quotes](\u002Fdocs\u002Fpayin-quotes)). Caching that for a few seconds behind a typing field is fine. [Indicative rate vs binding quote](\u002Fresources\u002Fmore\u002Findicative-rate-vs-binding-quote-api) covers the two-call pattern.\n\nA binding quote is different. You can hold its ID until `expires_at` to execute it once. You can't reuse it for another amount, another recipient, or after expiry. Two mistakes show up often:\n\n- **Caching a quote on page load.** The user reads, gets coffee, and clicks pay on a dead quote.\n- **Showing a cached amount after re-quoting.** The screen says one number, the payout settles another.\n\nRule of thumb: the number on the confirm button must come from a quote whose `expires_at` is still in the future when the click lands.\n\n## How do retries work without creating duplicates?\n\nWith idempotency keys, backoff, and jitter. Retries are selfish: AWS notes that \"when a client retries, it spends more of the server's time to get a higher chance of success\", and that retries \"can make the overload worse\" ([AWS Builders' Library](https:\u002F\u002Fbuilder.aws.com\u002Fcontent\u002F3EumjoZascWd1oZiEgL8ORlv3qE\u002Ftimeouts-retries-and-backoff-with-jitter)). So space them out with exponential backoff and add jitter.\n\nThe money side needs more than spacing. On BlindPay, any authenticated `POST`, `PUT`, `PATCH`, or `DELETE` under `\u002Fv1\u002F*` accepts an `Idempotency-Key` header of up to 255 characters ([idempotency](\u002Fdocs\u002Flearn\u002Fidempotency)):\n\n- A retry replays only if the body matches byte for byte. The check is a SHA-256 of the raw body.\n- Same key, different body returns `422 idempotency_key_payload_mismatch`.\n- Same key while the first call is still running returns `409 idempotency_key_in_flight` with a `Retry-After` header.\n- A `5xx` releases the key, so the retry runs fresh.\n- Keys are kept for 24 hours.\n\nUse one key per attempt to execute a specific quote. A new quote gets a new key. [Idempotency keys for stablecoin APIs](\u002Fresources\u002Fmore\u002Fstablecoin-api-idempotency-keys) walks through the failure modes in depth.\n\n## Illustrative example: how much of the window does latency eat?\n\nIllustrative example. A payout flow with one human approval, measured on a team's own servers. The numbers are made up for the walkthrough, not BlindPay figures.\n\n| Step | Time used | Time left on a 5-minute quote | Time left on a 10-second quote |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Quote request (p99) | 1.5 s | 298.5 s | 8.5 s |\n| Render amount to approver | 0.5 s | 298.0 s | 8.0 s |\n| Human approval | 45 s | 253.0 s | Expired |\n| Execute call (p99) | 1.5 s | 251.5 s | n\u002Fa |\n\nThe 5-minute flow finishes with four minutes to spare even on the slow path. The 10-second flow can't fit a human at all. That's the real lesson for OTC: automate the confirmation, or have the approver approve the amount range before the quote is requested.\n\nNow add one timed-out quote request with a 3-second timeout and a retry. On the 5-minute quote, nothing changes. On the 10-second quote, the retry alone leaves about 5 seconds for everything else.\n\n## How do you keep latency from breaking payouts in production?\n\nThree habits cover most of it.\n\n1. **Alert on the tail, not the mean.** Page someone when the p95 of quote calls doubles against last week, before expired quotes show up in support.\n2. **Track time left at execute.** If the median drops under a minute on 5-minute quotes, your approval step is the bottleneck, not the API.\n3. **Re-quote on expiry, never extend.** An expired quote is rejected. Request a fresh one, show the new amount, and ask again.\n\nTeams comparing providers should run the same harness against each one from the same region, at the same hours, for a week. Latency differences between providers are often smaller than the differences between your own regions.\n\n## What to do next\n\nInstrument one quote call today: log start, end, status, `expires_at`, and the time left when you executed. A week of that data tells you your real timeout and whether your approval flow fits the window. The [payout quotes reference](\u002Fdocs\u002Fpayout-quotes) has every field you need to log.\n",{"title":5,"description":513},"Quote API latency: timeouts, retries, and the quote window","resources\u002Fmore\u002Fquote-api-latency-timeouts","w3wiymfC9xSYw65CsySJiLIvqouC6Whe8T4bsY4eKsQ",[542,546,550,554,558,562,566,570,574,578,582,586,590,594,598,602,606,610,614,618,622,626,630,634,638,642,646,650,654,658,662,666,670,674,678,682,686,690,694,698,702,706,710,713,717,721,725,726,730,734,738,742,746,750,754,758,762,766,770,774,778,782,786,790,794,798,802,806,810,814,818,822,826,830,834,838,842,846,850,854,858,862,866,870,874,878,882,886,890,894,898,902,906,910,914,918,921,924,928,932,936,940,944,948,952,956,960,964,968,972,976,980,984,988,992,996,1000,1004,1008,1012,1016,1020,1024,1028,1032,1036,1040,1044,1048,1052,1056,1060,1064,1068,1072,1076,1080,1084,1088,1092,1096,1100,1104,1108,1112,1116,1120,1124,1128,1132,1136,1140,1144,1148,1152,1156,1160,1164,1168,1172,1176,1180,1184,1188,1192,1196,1200,1204,1208,1212,1216,1220,1224,1228,1232,1236,1240,1244,1248,1252,1256,1260,1264,1268,1272,1276,1280,1284,1288,1292,1296,1300,1304,1308,1312,1316,1320,1324,1327,1331],{"path":543,"title":544,"description":545},"\u002Fresources\u002Fmore\u002Fblockchain-payment-use-cases","7 real-world blockchain payment use cases: payroll, remittances, B2B, and more","Seven places blockchain payments beat bank rails: contractor payroll, remittances, B2B suppliers, marketplaces, 24\u002F7 treasury, bill pay, and PSP payouts.",{"path":547,"title":548,"description":549},"\u002Fresources\u002Fmore\u002Fach-pull-vs-ach-push-onramp","ACH pull vs ACH push: two ways to fund a USD to USDC on-ramp","Push means the payer sends an ACH transfer. 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How they compare.",{"path":639,"title":640,"description":641},"\u002Fresources\u002Fmore\u002Fbrl-to-mxn-cross-rate-payin-payout","Collect BRL, pay MXN: how a cross-rate payout through USDC is priced","Collect reais by Pix and pay pesos by SPEI through USDC: two chained quotes, the implied BRL\u002FMXN rate, the all-in cost, and the gap between legs.",{"path":643,"title":644,"description":645},"\u002Fresources\u002Fmore\u002Fstablecoin-payout-mistakes","Common stablecoin payout mistakes: wrong network, expired quotes, and bad bank details","The mistakes that make stablecoin payouts fail or stall: wrong network or token, expired quotes, deposits below minimums, bad bank details, and cut-offs.",{"path":647,"title":648,"description":649},"\u002Fresources\u002Fmore\u002Fcorrespondent-banking-vs-stablecoin-liquidity","Correspondent banking vs stablecoin liquidity: why pre-funding traps your capital","Correspondent banking keeps cross-border payouts liquid by parking cash in nostro accounts in every country. 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Scorecard inside.",{"path":659,"title":660,"description":661},"\u002Fresources\u002Fmore\u002Fcustodial-vs-non-custodial-off-ramps","Custodial vs non-custodial off-ramps: who holds the money, and what happens if the provider fails","A custodial off-ramp holds your stablecoins; a non-custodial one pulls them only at payout. What changes in insolvency, de-banking, and failed payouts.",{"path":663,"title":664,"description":665},"\u002Fresources\u002Fmore\u002Fcustodial-vs-non-custodial-vs-mpc-wallets","Custodial vs non-custodial vs MPC wallets: how to choose","Custodial, non-custodial, and MPC wallets differ in who holds the keys. Compare control, recovery, risk, and regulation, with product examples for each.",{"path":667,"title":668,"description":669},"\u002Fresources\u002Fmore\u002Fstablecoin-payout-cut-off-times-weekends-holidays","Do stablecoin payouts work on weekends and holidays? Cut-offs and bank calendars by rail","The stablecoin leg runs 24\u002F7, and so do Pix, SPEI, and RTP. ACH, wire, SEPA, TED, and SWIFT wait for a business day. Cut-offs and calendars by rail.",{"path":671,"title":672,"description":673},"\u002Fresources\u002Fmore\u002Frecipient-fees-to-receive-local-payouts","Does the recipient pay to receive a payout? 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Authorization, clearing, and settlement step by step","A $4.50 coffee and a $200 hotel hold, followed from tap to merchant payout: authorization, clearing, T+1 settlement, and how USDC becomes fiat at checkout.",{"path":722,"title":723,"description":724},"\u002Fresources\u002Fmore\u002Fhow-a-stablecoin-payment-works","How does a stablecoin payment move? From bank deposit to local payout, step by step","A stablecoin payment moves in legs: fiat collected, stablecoin settled, fiat paid out. What happens at each step, where delays hide, what recipients see.",{"path":535,"title":5,"description":513},{"path":727,"title":728,"description":729},"\u002Fresources\u002Fmore\u002Fcross-border-merchant-payments-without-pre-funding","How global merchants get paid across borders with stablecoins, no pre-funding required","Pre-funding means parking local currency in every market before money moves. Stablecoin virtual accounts remove it. 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How to size one stablecoin float for every payout corridor: lead time, safety stock, and a worked example.",{"path":751,"title":752,"description":753},"\u002Fresources\u002Fmore\u002Fcross-border-payment-costs-2026","How much do cross-border payments cost in 2026? Fees by corridor and what counts as cheap","Sending $200 abroad costs 6.36% on average, per the World Bank. Here is where that money goes, how corridors differ, and what a cheap payment looks like.",{"path":755,"title":756,"description":757},"\u002Fresources\u002Fmore\u002Fcrypto-on-ramp-fees-explained","How much does a crypto on-ramp cost? Fees, spreads, and how to read a quote","A crypto on-ramp charges through the rate spread, a service fee, the payment rail, and sometimes the network. How each works, and how to read the quote.",{"path":759,"title":760,"description":761},"\u002Fresources\u002Fmore\u002Fstablecoin-off-ramp-fees-explained","How much does a stablecoin off-ramp cost? Fees per transaction vs a bank wire","What a stablecoin off-ramp costs per transaction: network fee, FX spread, percentage and flat fees, worked at $200, $2,000, and $20,000 vs a bank wire.",{"path":763,"title":764,"description":765},"\u002Fresources\u002Fmore\u002Fcost-of-pre-funding-working-capital","How much does pre-funding cost? A working capital formula for cross-border payout teams","Price pre-funded payout balances in basis points: the balance formula, five cost lines, an illustrative worked example, and a sensitivity table to copy.",{"path":767,"title":768,"description":769},"\u002Fresources\u002Fmore\u002Fpartner-fees-markup-on-live-quotes","How platforms add their own margin to a live quote: partner fees explained","A partner fee is the markup a platform adds to a stablecoin quote. 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