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Adobe Rate Limits

PDF Services publishes a per-minute request ceiling that differs by tier, a monthly Document Transaction quota, and a set of hard per-request usage limits. It publishes NO runtime rate-limit response headers — an agent cannot learn its remaining budget from a response, only from which of two error codes comes back on a 429.

Adobe Rate Limits is the rate-limit profile for Adobe on the APIs.io network — every limit transcribed verbatim from the provider’s own documentation on 2026-08-13.

It captures 10 rate-limit definitions, across the Free Tier and Enterprise tiers, including Maximum Requests Per Minute (Free Tier) — 25 RPM (Free Tier); Maximum Requests Per Minute (Enterprise) — 100 RPM** (Enterprise); Free Tier Document Transactions per month — Free Tier users get free credentials that enable the processing of 500 Document Transactions per month..

Limit state is signalled in the published, rate_limit_headers, retry_after, and note response headers, and an exhausted limit returns HTTP 429.

The profile also includes response codes documented for throttled, quotaExceeded, and serviceUnavailable.

Tagged areas include Rate Limiting, Document Services, and PDF.

10 Limits Exhausted: HTTP 429 Quota: 429 publishedrate_limit_headersretry_afternote
Transcribed from the provider's documentation on 2026-08-13 — developer.adobe.com/document-services/docs/overview/limits/.
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Limits

Maximum Requests Per Minute (Free Tier) per-credential
25 RPM (Free Tier)
· per minute
25
Maximum Requests Per Minute (Enterprise) per-credential
100 RPM** (Enterprise)
· per minute
100
"Please contact us on RPM or file size if interested in understanding how it can scale under your ETLA."
Free Tier Document Transactions per month per-account
Free Tier users get free credentials that enable the processing of 500 Document Transactions per month.
· per month
500
NOT transient. Shares HTTP 429 with the rate limit but must not be retried — an agent that treats every 429 as backoff-and-retry will loop until the month rolls over.
File size (for all documents) per-request
100MB
· per request
100
Document limit (Combine, Insert, Replace, Split) per-request
20
· per request
20
Output images per Document Transaction (Export) per-request
50
· per request
50
Page limit (Extract and PDF To Markdown) per-request
400
· per request
400
May be lower for documents with a large number of tables.
Page limit (Accessibility Auto-Tag) per-request
200
· per request
200
Page limit (Scanned - Extract, PDF To Markdown and Accessibility Auto-Tag) per-request
150
· per request
150
JSON file size (Document Generation,HTML to PDF and Import PDFForm) per-request
10MB
· per request
10

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