diff --git a/app/controllers/discourse_ai/embeddings/embeddings_controller.rb b/app/controllers/discourse_ai/embeddings/embeddings_controller.rb
index d2aafce8..1a49db3b 100644
--- a/app/controllers/discourse_ai/embeddings/embeddings_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/discourse_ai/embeddings/embeddings_controller.rb
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ module DiscourseAi
 
       SEMANTIC_SEARCH_TYPE = "semantic_search"
 
+      MAX_HYDE_SEARCHES_PER_MINUTE = 4
+      MAX_SEARCHES_PER_MINUTE = 100
+
       def search
         query = params[:q].to_s
         skip_hyde = params[:hyde].to_s.downcase == "false" || params[:hyde].to_s == "0"
@@ -26,8 +29,20 @@ module DiscourseAi
 
         semantic_search = DiscourseAi::Embeddings::SemanticSearch.new(guardian)
 
-        if !semantic_search.cached_query?(query)
-          RateLimiter.new(current_user, "semantic-search", 4, 1.minutes).performed!
+        if !skip_hyde && !semantic_search.cached_query?(query)
+          RateLimiter.new(
+            current_user,
+            "semantic-search",
+            MAX_HYDE_SEARCHES_PER_MINUTE,
+            1.minutes,
+          ).performed!
+        else
+          RateLimiter.new(
+            current_user,
+            "semantic-search-non-hyde",
+            MAX_SEARCHES_PER_MINUTE,
+            1.minutes,
+          ).performed!
         end
 
         hijack do
diff --git a/spec/requests/embeddings/embeddings_controller_spec.rb b/spec/requests/embeddings/embeddings_controller_spec.rb
index d292996f..0542d2ea 100644
--- a/spec/requests/embeddings/embeddings_controller_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/requests/embeddings/embeddings_controller_spec.rb
@@ -60,6 +60,19 @@ describe DiscourseAi::Embeddings::EmbeddingsController do
       expect(response.parsed_body["topics"].map { |t| t["id"] }).to contain_exactly(topic.id)
     end
 
+    context "when rate limiting is enabled" do
+      before { RateLimiter.enable }
+
+      it "will not rate limit API for hyde search" do
+        10.times do |i|
+          query = "test #{SecureRandom.hex}"
+          stub_embedding(query)
+          get "/discourse-ai/embeddings/semantic-search.json?q=#{query}&hyde=false"
+          expect(response.status).to eq(200)
+        end
+      end
+    end
+
     it "returns results correctly when performing a non Hyde search" do
       index(topic)
       index(topic_in_subcategory)