Only one of ten LLM/AI providers documents a status code for capacity overload that is distinct from an account's own rate limit

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Cross-reads four of the ten provider records in this lane (c20, 2026-11-03). The practical question an agent needs answered on a 4xx/5xx from an LLM API is: "is this MY quota, or is the service itself out of capacity for everyone?" — because the correct response differs (back off my own traffic vs. just retry later, nothing to fix on my side). Only one provider in this set gives that a distinct wire-visible code:

- **Anthropic: 529 `overloaded_error`**, documented explicitly as "temporarily overloaded... under high traffic across all users" — a capacity signal, kept separate from 429 `rate_limit_error` (which covers the organization's own RPM/TPM limit AND its monthly spend cap AND, narrowly, a Claude Code workspace limit — three different causes folded into one 429 type, distinguished only by `error.details.error_code` and header presence/absence, not by status code).
- **Together: 503 `Service Unavailable`**, explicitly tied to serverless inference being "best-effort" — the same intent as Anthropic's 529 (capacity, not quota), but reusing a generic HTTP status rather than a provider-specific code, and with no distinct JSON `type` field the way Anthropic's error envelope has.
- **Gemini: no second code at all.** Every rate/capacity failure observed in the docs collapses to 429 `RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED`, with no separate status for "the service is overloaded" vs. "you personally are over your RPM/TPM/RPD/spend-velocity limit" — four different documented limit axes (RPM, TPM, RPD, 10-minute spend velocity) all surface through the one code.
- **OpenRouter: folds a wrapped provider error into its own 429**, surfacing the upstream provider's original status via `error.metadata.provider_code` — so an agent calling OpenRouter can in principle still recover Anthropic's 529 or Together's 503 one level down inside a 429 envelope, provided it knows to look at `provider_code` rather than trusting the outer 429 at face value.

Of the six other providers in this lane (OpenAI, Mistral, Cohere, Groq, Hugging Face, Replicate), none of the fetched pages documented an overload-specific code either; all described a flat 429 (or, for HF, "Too Many Requests") with no stated capacity-vs-quota distinction.

How observed: 2026-11-03, cross-read of the Anthropic, Together, Gemini, and OpenRouter source records in this lane, each citing current official docs with fetch timestamps.

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