Atlassian Jira · Rate Limits

Atlassian Jira Rate Limits

Jira Cloud enforces three independent limits: a points-based hourly cost budget, a per-second burst limit that varies by HTTP method and endpoint, and a per-issue write limit. Any of the three can return 429, and RateLimit-Reason says which one fired.

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

It captures 9 rate-limit definitions, measuring points_per_hour, requests_per_second, and write_operations.

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

Tagged areas include Agile, Atlassian, Issue Tracking, Project Management, and Rate Limiting.

9 Limits Throttle: 429 Quota: 429
AgileAtlassianIssue TrackingProject ManagementRate LimitingQuotasThrottling

Limits

Global Pool quota (Tier 1, default) per-app, shared across all tenants
points_per_hour · hour
65000
Per-Tenant Pool quota (Tier 2, granted after review) per-app per-tenant
points_per_hour · hour
Burst limit — GET per-app per-tenant per-endpoint
requests_per_second · second
100
Burst limit — POST per-app per-tenant per-endpoint
requests_per_second · second
100
Burst limit — PUT per-app per-tenant per-endpoint
requests_per_second · second
50
Burst limit — DELETE per-app per-tenant per-endpoint
requests_per_second · second
50
Burst limit — custom endpoints per-app per-tenant per-endpoint
requests_per_second · second
Per-issue write limit (short window) per-issue
write_operations · 2 seconds
20
Per-issue write limit (long window) per-issue
write_operations · 30 seconds
100

Policies

Backoff
Honor Retry-After when present and use exponential backoff with jitter otherwise. Read RateLimit-Reason to know which of the three limits fired — a burst 429 clears in a second, a quota 429 may not clear for the rest of the hour.
Early warning
Watch X-RateLimit-NearLimit; it is set to true at under 20% remaining, before any 429.
Quota tiering
Apps default to the shared Global Pool. Per-Tenant Pool quotas are granted by Atlassian on review, which is an application process, not a plan upgrade.

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