brevo · Rate Limits

Brevo Rate Limits

Brevo enforces API rate limits using two metrics, requests-per-second (RPS) and requests-per-hour (RPH), with limits scaling across three tiers - General (all accounts), Advanced (Professional / Enterprise), and Extended (Enterprise only). Per-endpoint ceilings are highest for transactional email and SMS sends. Overages return HTTP 429 and Brevo includes rate-limit headers on every response.

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

It captures 10 rate-limit definitions, measuring requests_per_second and requests_per_hour.

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

Tagged areas include Email, Transactional, SMS, Marketing, and CRM.

10 Limits Throttle: 429
EmailTransactionalSMSMarketingCRMRate Limiting

Limits

General - POST /v3/smtp/email account
requests_per_second · second
1000
Also 3,600,000 requests/hour. All account types.
General - POST /v3/transactionalSMS/send account
requests_per_second · second
150
Also 540,000 requests/hour.
General - GET /v3/smtp/emails account
requests_per_second · second
2
Also 7,200 requests/hour.
General - /v3/contacts/{...} account
requests_per_second · second
10
Also 36,000 requests/hour.
General - all other endpoints account
requests_per_hour · hour
100
Advanced - email send account
requests_per_second · second
2000
Email and SMS limits double on Professional / Enterprise; contacts reach 20 RPS / 72,000 RPH; other endpoints reach 200 RPH.
Advanced - contact endpoints account
requests_per_second · second
20
Extended - email send account
requests_per_second · second
6000
Enterprise-only ceiling.
Extended - SMS send account
requests_per_second · second
250
Extended - contact endpoints account
requests_per_second · second
60

Policies

Backoff Strategy
Apply exponential backoff with jitter on 429 responses; rate-limit headers are included on all responses to support proactive throttling.
Tiered Capacity
Capacity is bound to account tier; upgrade from Free / Starter to Professional / Enterprise to lift to Advanced or Extended tiers.
Endpoint-Specific Limits
Bulk send endpoints (email / SMS) have 1-2 orders of magnitude higher RPS than read or contact-management endpoints; design clients to batch and avoid per-record loops on contacts.

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