Brevo · Rate Limits

Brevo Rate Limits

Name: Brevo Rate Limits
Creator: Brevo
Keywords: Email, Transactional, SMS, Marketing, CRM, Rate Limiting

Brevo publishes a complete per-endpoint rate-limit table across three account tiers — General (all accounts), Advanced (Professional and Enterprise) and Extended (Enterprise only) — expressed in both requests per second (RPS) and requests per hour (RPH). Where an endpoint carries both, both must be respected simultaneously. The spread is extreme: the transactional send endpoint allows 1,000 RPS on the free tier while every unlisted endpoint is capped at 100 requests per HOUR, which is the number that actually constrains most integrations. Exhaustion returns 429 and every response carries vendor-prefixed x-sib-ratelimit-* headers; there is no Retry-After.

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 30 rate-limit definitions, across the General, Advanced, and Extended tiers, measuring requests_per_second and requests_per_hour.

The profile also includes 4 backoff/retry policies defined and response codes documented for throttled.

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

30 Limits Throttle: 429

EmailTransactionalSMSMarketingCRMRate Limiting

Limits

General - POST /v3/smtp/email, GET /v3/smtp/blockedContacts account

requests_per_second · second

1000

Also 3,600,000 requests/hour.

General - GET /v3/smtp/emails account

requests_per_second · second

Also 7,200 requests/hour.

General - POST /v3/transactionalSMS/send account

requests_per_second · second

150

Also 540,000 requests/hour.

General - POST /v3/events account

requests_per_second · second

Also 36,000 requests/hour.

General - POST /v3/orders/status account

requests_per_second · second

Also 18,000 requests/hour.

General - POST /v3/products account

requests_per_second · second

Also 7,200 requests/hour.

General - all other /v3/smtp/{...} endpoints account

requests_per_hour · hour

300

Excludes POST /v3/smtp/email and GET /v3/smtp/blockedContacts, which have dedicated limits.

General - all /v3/contacts/{...} endpoints account

requests_per_second · second

Also 36,000 requests/hour.

General - all /v3/loyalty/{...} endpoints account

requests_per_hour · hour

600

General - all other endpoints account

requests_per_hour · hour

100

The default ceiling for the majority of the 285 published operations.

Advanced - POST /v3/smtp/email, GET /v3/smtp/blockedContacts account

requests_per_second · second

2000

Also 7,200,000 requests/hour.

Advanced - GET /v3/smtp/emails account

requests_per_second · second

Also 10,800 requests/hour.

Advanced - POST /v3/transactionalSMS/send account

requests_per_second · second

200

Also 720,000 requests/hour.

Advanced - POST /v3/events account

requests_per_second · second

Also 72,000 requests/hour.

Advanced - POST /v3/orders/status account

requests_per_second · second

Also 36,000 requests/hour.

Advanced - POST /v3/products account

requests_per_second · second

Also 14,400 requests/hour.

Advanced - all other /v3/smtp/{...} endpoints account

requests_per_hour · hour

600

Advanced - all /v3/contacts/{...} endpoints account

requests_per_second · second

Also 72,000 requests/hour.

Advanced - all /v3/loyalty/{...} endpoints account

requests_per_hour · hour

1200

Advanced - all other endpoints account

requests_per_hour · hour

200

Extended - POST /v3/smtp/email, GET /v3/smtp/blockedContacts account

requests_per_second · second

6000

Extended - GET /v3/smtp/emails account

requests_per_hour · hour

18000

Extended - POST /v3/transactionalSMS/send account

requests_per_second · second

250

Extended - POST /v3/events account

requests_per_second · second

Extended - POST /v3/orders/status account

requests_per_second · second

Extended - POST /v3/products account

requests_per_hour · hour

21600

Extended - all other /v3/smtp/{...} endpoints account

requests_per_hour · hour

1800

Extended - all /v3/contacts/{...} endpoints account

requests_per_second · second

Extended - all /v3/loyalty/{...} endpoints account

requests_per_hour · hour

100000

Extended - all other endpoints account

requests_per_hour · hour

600

Policies

Distribute requests evenly

Brevo's own guidance — calculate the allowance and spread requests evenly across the window rather than bursting (1,000 RPS supports 60,000 requests/minute when even).

Read the headers, do not poll

Check x-sib-ratelimit-remaining before issuing a request; back off for x-sib-ratelimit-reset seconds. No Retry-After is sent.

Use webhooks instead of statistics polling

Brevo explicitly recommends webhooks over polling the statistics endpoints, which sit under the 300 RPH /v3/smtp/{...} bucket.

Tiered capacity

Capacity is bound to account tier; Advanced requires Professional or Enterprise, Extended requires Enterprise.

Sources

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