Accredible · Rate Limits

Accredible Rate Limits

Accredible does not publish fixed numeric rate limits for its REST API in the public API reference. The practical governor on issuance volume is the plan's annual unique-recipient allowance rather than a per-minute request cap. Clients should treat the API as rate-limited in principle - implement exponential backoff, honor any Retry-After header, and prefer the bulk-create endpoint over many single-credential calls for large batches. The API authenticates each request with an API key in the Authorization header (`Token token=YOUR_API_KEY`); an invalid key returns 401.

Accredible Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for Accredible on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Rate Limits specification.

It captures 3 rate-limit definitions, measuring requests, recipients, and credentials.

The profile also includes 3 backoff/retry policies defined and response codes documented for throttled and unauthorized.

Tagged areas include Digital Credentials, Certificates, Badges, Rate Limiting, and Quotas.

3 Limits Throttle: 429
Digital CredentialsCertificatesBadgesRate LimitingQuotas

Limits

API Requests account
requests
not published
No fixed numeric request-rate limit is documented for the Accredible API.
Recipient Allowance account
recipients
per plan (per year)
Issuance is governed by the plan's annual unique-recipient allowance rather than a request-rate cap. Unlimited credentials per unique recipient.
Bulk Create Batch request
credentials
batch via /credentials/bulk_create
Prefer bulk_create over many single POST /credentials calls for large issuances.

Policies

Backoff Strategy
Clients should implement exponential backoff with jitter and honor any Retry-After header on 429 responses.
Bulk Preferred
Use the bulk_create endpoint for large batches to reduce request volume and avoid throttling.
Sandbox Testing
Run high-volume or load-sensitive tests against the sandbox environment (sandbox.api.accredible.com) rather than production.

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