Feature

Rate Limiting

Documented request quotas and throttling behavior.

79 providers 435 APIs 71 declared variants

The API publishes request quotas, throttling rules, and rate-limit headers so clients can back off predictably. Undocumented limits are one of the most common causes of production incidents.

79 API providers on the APIs.io network offer rate limiting. The highest-rated are Shopify, Didomi, Close, Anthropic, Availity.

Providers

Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Exemplar 11 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 25 Solid coverage with minor gaps
BuildkiteBuildkite is a hybrid CI/CD platform that combines a hosted control plane (pipelines.buildkite.com) with se...2 APIs65.9SendcloudSendcloud is Europe's leading shipping platform for e-commerce, headquartered in Eindhoven, Netherlands. Th...20 APIs65.9ReductoReducto is an AI document-parsing platform that turns unstructured PDFs, images, spreadsheets, slides, and ...10 APIs65.5SlackSlack is a cloud-based team collaboration platform that provides chat, file sharing, and integrations with ...32 APIs64.7ankrAnkr is a Web3 infrastructure provider whose multichain RPC, Advanced API, liquid staking, contract automat...4 APIs64.5Apollo.ioApollo.io is a sales intelligence and go-to-market platform combining a database of 240M+ contacts and 30M+...1 API61.1OktaOkta is the workforce identity incumbent — its Identity Cloud platform (also called the Okta Workforce Iden...1 API61.0GitHubThe GitHub REST API allows developers to programmatically interact with GitHub resources including reposito...38 APIs60.7RocketReachRocketReach is a Seattle-based B2B contact data and sales intelligence provider that maintains a database o...5 APIs60.7Solo.ioSolo.io is a cloud-native application-networking company founded in 2017 that builds enterprise and open-so...5 APIs60.7WHOOPWHOOP is a fitness and recovery wearable platform providing a REST API for accessing sleep, recovery, strai...2 APIs59.8WSO2WSO2 API Manager is an open-source API management platform supporting REST, SOAP, and GraphQL with flexible...7 APIs58.6DatadogDatadog is a monitoring and analytics platform that helps organizations gain insight into their infrastruct...6 APIs58.5TensorDockTensorDock operates a global GPU cloud marketplace that connects independent hardware hosts with customers ...1 API58.1TykTyk is an open-source API gateway and management platform supporting REST, GraphQL, gRPC, and Async APIs wi...4 APIs57.8HunterHunter.io is an email-intelligence and outbound platform that finds, verifies, and enriches professional em...8 APIs57.5JobberJobber is field service management software for home and commercial service businesses, serving 100,000+ bu...1 API57.2HatchetHatchet is an open-source distributed task queue and workflow orchestration engine for background jobs, AI ...1 API57.0Track-PODTrack-POD is a cloud-based delivery management platform that combines route planning and optimization with ...1 API56.9ThoughtlyThoughtly is an AI voice and chat agent platform that helps revenue and support teams contact every lead ac...1 API56.3Amazon DataSyncAWS DataSync is an online data transfer service that simplifies, automates, and accelerates moving data bet...1 API56.1AssembledAssembled is a San Francisco-headquartered support operations platform that unifies workforce management (W...4 APIs55.6WalmartWalmart is a multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets, discount department st...27 APIs55.4DeelDeel is a global workforce platform combining payroll, Employer of Record (EOR), independent contractor man...8 APIs55.0Cloudflare AI GatewayCloudflare AI Gateway is a managed LLM proxy that sits in front of 23+ AI providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Goo...1 API54.9
Developing 25 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
WherebyWhereby is an embeddable video API plus standalone meetings product that lets developers add browser-based,...1 API53.7LunarLunar is an enterprise-grade API management and AI control plane platform that provides a unified gateway f...3 APIs53.6API SnapAPI Snap is a developer utility platform that consolidates 13+ commonly needed REST APIs into a single, uni...1 API51.3Holiday APIHoliday API is a commercial reference-data service that delivers verified public holidays, observances, cou...1 API51.2HostawayHostaway is an AI-powered vacation rental management platform that consolidates property management, channe...16 APIs51.2GreenhouseGreenhouse Software is an enterprise applicant tracking system (ATS) and end-to-end hiring platform spannin...6 APIs50.7FusioFusio is Apache-2.0, self-hosted API management from apioo (Christoph Kappestein, Germany). An operator ins...5 APIs49.9Microsoft Azure CloudA comprehensive collection of Microsoft Azure cloud service APIs covering compute, storage, databases, AI, ...1 API49.2mlsgridThe MLS Grid is a normalized, RESO-compliant data distribution platform that gives brokers, MLSs, and appli...1 API49.1Help ScoutHelp Scout is an email-first help desk platform with shared inboxes, live chat, knowledge bases, and a cust...25 APIs48.3StackOneStackOne is an AI-powered embedded integration platform as a service (iPaaS) designed to simplify and accel...1 API47.6DiscordDiscord is a voice, video and text communication service used by hundreds of millions of people to hang out...3 APIs46.9TrackingMoreTrackingMore is a multi-carrier shipment tracking platform offering a unified REST API that integrates with...1 API46.8Australia PostAustralia Post is Australia's primary postal operator, offering a developer platform with REST APIs for e-c...2 APIs46.5NOAA — National Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationThe National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is the United States scientific and regulatory a...1 API43.0PolarPolar Electro Oy (operating as Polar Global) is a Finnish sports and fitness technology company founded in ...2 APIs42.8VTEXVTEX is a global enterprise digital commerce platform that provides end-to-end solutions for businesses to ...44 APIs42.8UnkeyUnkey is the developer platform for modern APIs, providing globally distributed API key management, rate li...1 API42.7MapboxMapbox is a leading mapping and location data platform that provides tools and services to help developers ...12 APIs42.5SupabaseSupabase is an open-source Firebase alternative that provides a suite of backend services built on top of P...5 APIs42.3Apache DubboApache Dubbo is a high-performance, Java-based open-source RPC framework that provides service discovery, t...1 API41.9Kong AI GatewayKong AI Gateway is the AI-native capability layer built on top of Kong Gateway and managed through Kong Kon...21 APIs40.2TypesenseTypesense is a fast, typo-tolerant, open-source search engine designed for developer productivity. It provi...2 APIs39.9KreaKrea is a real-time AI creative suite that lets designers, filmmakers, brand teams, and everyday creators g...1 API39.5Apache JamesApache James (Java Apache Mail Enterprise Server) is a portable and enterprise-ready mail server built enti...1 API39.3
Thin 15 Limited public surface area
RavelinRavelin is a London-based fraud detection and prevention platform offering AI-native, real-time decisioning...2 APIs39.2FrontFront is a customer operations platform unifying shared inboxes, chat, SMS, social, and CRM workflows. Fron...2 APIs39.1AI GatewayAn API Evangelist landscape index of AI gateways — the LLM routers, prompt firewalls, model fallback proxie...1 API38.8AmbassadorAmbassador is a Kubernetes-native API Gateway built on Envoy Proxy, providing routing, load balancing, auth...1 API37.4Punk APIPunk API is a free, no-auth REST API exposing BrewDog's "DIY Dog" open-source beer recipe collection — 325 ...1 API36.3Ron Swanson QuotesA community-built, open source HTTP API that returns Ron Swanson quotes from the NBC television series Park...1 API35.0JSONPlaceholderJSONPlaceholder is a free, no-auth fake REST API for prototyping, tutorials, and testing. It exposes six re...1 API34.9APIParkAPIPark is an open-source, cloud-native AI gateway and API developer portal that helps developers and enter...1 API34.5KnitKnit is a unified API platform for B2B products, AI agents, and MCP clients, providing integrations infrast...1 API34.4LAPISLAPIS (Lightweight API Specification for Intelligent Systems) is a compact, LLM-native API description form...1 API33.9freshworksFreshworks is a software company that develops cloud-based business software including customer support, IT...6 APIs32.5Test Rate Limit CheckTesting and validation of API rate limiting implementations to ensure that APIs correctly enforce request q...1 API31.7GlamaGlama is an all-in-one AI workspace combining an MCP server marketplace and registry, a managed MCP gateway...7 APIs30.3Volvo CarsVolvo Cars is a Swedish premium automotive OEM (headquartered in Gothenburg, owned by Geely) that operates ...4 APIs29.7BlynkBlynk is a low-code / no-code IoT software platform that helps companies prototype, deploy, and remotely ma...3 APIs28.1
Emerging 3 Early or largely undocumented

What Providers Actually Declared

This feature is a canonical term. These are the free-text strings providers wrote in their own apis.yml that map onto it.

100 requests per minute API rate limit; subscriber 429s retried once with Retry-After100 requests per minute per organization on the v2 API202 per-operation rate limits published, token-bucket, allotted per seller; headers x-current-token-count + X-Next-Replenishment-TimeAdvanced ThrottlingAuth signup rate limits: 30/hr Free, 150/hr ProBandwidth ThrottlingBuilt-in rate limiting and retry logicCatalog/Search/Order Management with own rate limitsConfigurable per-key rate limitsDefault 150 requests-per-hour-per-user quota; 429 + Retry-After on overageDefault rate limit of 300 requests per minute (5 req/s) with bursts up to 20Default rate limits 600 req/min on most endpointsDocumented rate limits (2 RPS, 7,200/hour, 40,000/24h, 4 GB/hour) with HTTP 429 on violationDocumented rate limits — 15 req/10s per IP and 20 req/10s per accountDynamic rate limiting on AccessLink based on registered user count (15-minute and 24-hour windows)Enterprise plan: custom pricing and custom rate limitsFirst-Class Rate LimitsFree public meal recipe API. Patreon supporters get premium API key with no rate limits.Leaky-Bucket Query Cost ThrottlingNCEI CDO v2 — token-based legacy climate API with 5 req/sec, 10k req/day rate limitsNo Rate LimitsNo Rate Limits DocumentedNo Velocity ThrottlingNo rate limits under 1B tokens/day; higher quotas negotiable within 48 hoursOnboarding GraphQL API with query-complexity rate limitingPer-Consumer Rate LimitingPer-Customer Rate LimitingPer-endpoint REST API rate limits with X-RateLimit-* headersPer-endpoint-group rate limits; org limits 3x individual key limitsPer-method tiered rate limits (Tier 1-4)Per-route bucket-based rate limits with X-RateLimit-Bucket headersPer-route rate limits + global 200 req/10sPer-token, per-endpoint rate limits (60-1,250 req/min defaults)Per-user API rate limits with org-wide capsPer-user-per-host throttling with X-Request-Cost and X-Rate-Limit-Remaining response headersPlan-tiered rate limits with job-backlog queueing instead of hard rejectionPoint-based rate limiting (100/min Build, 1000/min Enterprise)Predictable Rate Limit HeadersPublic Plan free with anonymous IP-scoped throttling — production should use PremiumQuery complexity scoring (max 2000) and 25-level depth limit instead of fixed RPS rate limits

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