I agree that these rates are low, but it’s not far off what I need. It will just suddenly be tight when before it was fast and easily accessible without worry.
I created a channel (non-affiliate/partner) with specific AutoMod levels, blocked and allowed terms, etc. This channel is specifically used for checking against messages to be used in TTS in another channel (partner) that has looser AutoMod settings. These TTS messages often come fast (via cheering in the chat, so some AutoMod is already in use) and should be rapidly available without waiting for the rate limit bucket to fill. I created an endpoint that indirectly calls the AutoMod API for this purpose. I imagine now the requests could realistically wait 12-72 seconds which will timeout.