Accurate Background · Rate Limits

Accurate Bg Rate Limits

Accurate Background does not publish fixed numeric rate limits for the Accurate API (v3) in its public developer documentation. In practice, request throughput is a control-plane concern (creating candidates, placing orders, polling status), while the meaningful throughput is the volume of background screenings ordered, which is governed by the account's screening services agreement rather than a per-minute request cap. Standard HTTP semantics apply, and consumers should implement retry-with-backoff and rely on webhooks instead of tight polling for order/report status.

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

It captures 3 rate-limit definitions, measuring requests, screenings, and bytes.

The profile also includes 2 backoff/retry policies defined and response codes documented for throttled.

Tagged areas include Background Checks, Employment Screening, Rate Limiting, and Quotas.

3 Limits Throttle: 429
Background ChecksEmployment ScreeningRate LimitingQuotas

Limits

API Requests account
requests
not published
No fixed numeric request-rate limit is documented for the Accurate API.
Screening Volume account
screenings
per agreement
Effective throughput is the number of ordered screenings, governed by the screening services agreement.
Document Upload Size request
bytes
15728640
Uploaded documents are limited to 15MB (PDF, JPG, PNG, DOC, DOCX).

Policies

Backoff Strategy
Implement exponential backoff with jitter and honor Retry-After on 429 responses.
Prefer Webhooks
Use configured webhook status callbacks for order/report completion rather than polling to reduce request volume.

Sources