Backendless · Rate Limits

Backendless Rate Limits

Backendless does not throttle API call volume - all Cloud plans advertise unlimited API calls per month. Instead, capacity is governed by per-plan resource caps (file storage, number of data tables, and concurrent real-time connections) and, on the Scale plan, by daily billing tiers keyed to peak API requests per minute. Standard request constraints apply, such as a maximum page size of 100 objects on data retrieval. Specific account-level concurrency and per-endpoint values are not reconciled in this artifact.

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

It captures 6 rate-limit definitions, measuring requests, connections, tables, gigabytes, and objects.

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

Tagged areas include BaaS, Backend as a Service, Database, Rate Limiting, and Quotas.

6 Limits Throttle: 429
BaaSBackend as a ServiceDatabaseRate LimitingQuotasThrottling

Limits

API Calls Per Month account
requests
unlimited (un-throttled on all Cloud plans)
API call volume is not throttled; Scale plan bills via daily peak-RPM tiers.
Real-Time Connections account
connections
5 (Free) / 1000 (Scale); expandable via function packs
Concurrent Socket.IO real-time connections; raise with the real-time function pack.
Data Tables account
tables
20 (Free) / 100 (Scale)
Maximum number of database tables per application.
File Storage account
gigabytes
1 GB (Free) / 10 GB (Scale); expandable via function packs
Hosted file repository capacity.
Data Page Size request
objects
100
Maximum objects returned per data find request via pageSize.
Scale Peak RPM Tier account
requests_per_minute
tiered (billing, not a hard cap)
Daily Scale billing tier is set by the day's peak API requests per minute.

Policies

Un-Throttled API Calls
All Backendless Cloud plans provide unlimited, un-throttled API calls; capacity scales with plan resources and Scale billing tiers.
Backoff Strategy
Clients should implement exponential backoff with jitter and honor Retry-After on any 429 responses.

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