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How to Reduce Cricket API Costs

Lower your RapidAPI bill with caching, request deduplication and match-aware polling.

Server-side proxy

One backend request serves thousands of users. Never embed API keys in mobile or browser clients where each user triggers direct API calls.

If 10,000 users watch the same match, fetch once per TTL window. Use a single worker per match ID to poll and broadcast.

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