Given a probability measure \(\mu \) on the unit circle \({\mathbb {T}}\) , consider the reproducing kernel \(k_{\mu ,n}(z_1, z_2)\) in the space of polynomials of degree at most \(n-1\) with the \(L^2(\mu )\) –inner product. Let \(u, v \in {\mathbb {C}}\) . It is known that under mild assumptions on \(\mu \) near \(\zeta \in \mathbb {T}\) , the ratio \(k_{\mu ,n}(\zeta e^{u/n}, \zeta e^{v/n})/k_{\mu ,n}(\zeta , \zeta )\) converges to a universal limit S(u, v) as \(n \rightarrow \infty \) . We give an estimate for the rate of this convergence for measures \(\mu \) with finite logarithmic integral.