diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 85d8118..e940857 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -133,6 +133,11 @@ response.reload!
 response.reload_until_finished! tries: 300 # default is 600
 ```
 
+Assembly status rate limits are temporary polling errors. `reload_until_finished!`
+keeps polling the original status URL and waits at least the server’s `info.retryIn`
+seconds before retrying. The `tries` limit still applies. A status rate limit does
+not make `finished?` return `true`; `status_rate_limit?` identifies this response.
+
 In general, you use hash accessor syntax to query any direct attribute from
 the [response](https://transloadit.com/docs/api/#assembly-status-response).
 Methods suffixed by a question mark provide a more readable way of querying
diff --git a/lib/transloadit/response/assembly.rb b/lib/transloadit/response/assembly.rb
index 6e6d998..193a770 100644
--- a/lib/transloadit/response/assembly.rb
+++ b/lib/transloadit/response/assembly.rb
@@ -2,7 +2,10 @@
 
 module Transloadit::Response::Assembly
   def reload!
-    replace Transloadit::Request.new(self["assembly_ssl_url"]).get
+    url = assembly_ssl_url
+    raise ArgumentError, "Assembly response does not include a status URL" if url.nil? || url.empty?
+
+    replace Transloadit::Request.new(url).get
   end
 
   def cancel!
@@ -34,7 +37,7 @@ def replaying?
   end
 
   def finished?
-    aborted? || canceled? || completed? || error?
+    aborted? || canceled? || completed? || (error? && !status_rate_limit?)
   end
 
   def uploading?
@@ -45,8 +48,22 @@ def rate_limit?
     self["error"] == "RATE_LIMIT_REACHED"
   end
 
+  def status_rate_limit?
+    self["error"] == "ASSEMBLY_STATUS_FETCHING_RATE_LIMIT_REACHED"
+  end
+
   def wait_time
-    self["info"]["retryIn"] || 0
+    self["info"]&.fetch("retryIn", 0) || 0
+  end
+
+  def replace(other)
+    assembly_ssl_url
+    super
+  end
+
+  # Status rate-limit responses omit this URL, so retain it across reloads.
+  def assembly_ssl_url
+    @assembly_ssl_url ||= self["assembly_ssl_url"]
   end
 
   DEFAULT_RELOAD_TRIES = 600
@@ -55,7 +72,7 @@ def reload_until_finished!(options = {})
     tries = options[:tries] || DEFAULT_RELOAD_TRIES
 
     tries.times do
-      sleep 1
+      sleep(status_rate_limit? ? [1, wait_time].max : 1)
       reload!
       return self if finished?
     end
diff --git a/test/unit/transloadit/test_response.rb b/test/unit/transloadit/test_response.rb
index 227cafd..7e46765 100644
--- a/test/unit/transloadit/test_response.rb
+++ b/test/unit/transloadit/test_response.rb
@@ -116,6 +116,74 @@
         end
       end
     end
+
+    it "must retry status rate limits at the original URL after retryIn" do
+      WebMock.reset!
+      response = Transloadit::Response.new(
+        body: MultiJson.dump(ok: "ASSEMBLY_EXECUTING", assembly_ssl_url: request_uri),
+        headers: {}, status: 200
+      ).extend!(Transloadit::Response::Assembly)
+      WebMock.stub_request(:get, request_uri).to_return(
+        {status: 429, body: '{"error":"ASSEMBLY_STATUS_FETCHING_RATE_LIMIT_REACHED","info":{"retryIn":5}}'},
+        {status: 200, body: '{"ok":"ASSEMBLY_COMPLETED"}'}
+      )
+      delays = []
+
+      with_singleton_method(response, :sleep, proc { |delay| delays << delay }) do
+        _(response.reload_until_finished!(tries: 2)).must_be_same_as response
+      end
+
+      _(delays).must_equal [1, 5]
+      _(response.completed?).must_equal true
+      _(response.assembly_ssl_url).must_equal request_uri
+      WebMock.assert_requested(:get, request_uri, times: 2)
+    ensure
+      WebMock.reset!
+    end
+
+    it "must retain the status URL when manually reloading after a rate limit" do
+      WebMock.reset!
+      WebMock.stub_request(:get, request_uri).to_return(
+        {status: 429, body: '{"error":"ASSEMBLY_STATUS_FETCHING_RATE_LIMIT_REACHED"}'},
+        {status: 200, body: '{"ok":"ASSEMBLY_COMPLETED"}'}
+      )
+
+      @response.reload!
+      _(@response.status_rate_limit?).must_equal true
+      _(@response.finished?).must_equal false
+      _(@response.wait_time).must_equal 0
+      @response.reload!
+
+      _(@response.completed?).must_equal true
+      WebMock.assert_requested(:get, request_uri, times: 2)
+    ensure
+      WebMock.reset!
+    end
+
+    it "must still stop polling at the tries limit when status requests are rate limited" do
+      WebMock.reset!
+      WebMock.stub_request(:get, request_uri).to_return(
+        status: 429, body: '{"error":"ASSEMBLY_STATUS_FETCHING_RATE_LIMIT_REACHED"}'
+      )
+
+      with_singleton_method(@response, :sleep, proc { |_delay| }) do
+        assert_raises Transloadit::Exception::ReloadLimitReached do
+          @response.reload_until_finished!(tries: 2)
+        end
+      end
+
+      _(@response.finished?).must_equal false
+      WebMock.assert_requested(:get, request_uri, times: 2)
+    ensure
+      WebMock.reset!
+    end
+
+    it "must reject a reload without a status URL before making a request" do
+      response = Transloadit::Response.new(body: "{}", headers: {}, status: 200)
+        .extend!(Transloadit::Response::Assembly)
+
+      assert_raises(ArgumentError) { response.reload! }
+    end
   end
 
   describe "statuses" do
diff --git a/transloadit.gemspec b/transloadit.gemspec
index afcbef7..f66916f 100644
--- a/transloadit.gemspec
+++ b/transloadit.gemspec
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |gem|
 
   gem.add_dependency "faraday", ">= 2.0", "< 3.0"
   gem.add_dependency "faraday-multipart", "~> 1.0"
+  # Ruby 3.1 uses MultiJson 1.19, whose positional parse options are incompatible with JSON 3.
+  gem.add_dependency "json", "< 3.0"
   gem.add_dependency "multi_json"
   gem.add_dependency "mime-types"