Buttondown · Rate Limits

Buttondown Rate Limits

Buttondown's published API rate limits, read from its rate-limits documentation. This replaces the 2026-05-04 scaffold, whose values were placeholders. Buttondown enforces one global per-minute limit plus one endpoint-specific daily cap on subscriber creation, and returns rate-limit state on every response.

Buttondown Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for Buttondown on the APIs.io network, in the API Commons Rate Limits shape.

It captures 3 rate-limit definitions, measuring requests_per_minute, requests_per_day, and requests_per_hour.

Limit state is signalled in the limit, remaining, reset, and retryAfter response headers, and an exhausted limit returns HTTP 429.

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

Tagged areas include Email, Newsletters, Rate Limiting, and Throttling.

3 Limits Exhausted: HTTP 429 Quota: 400 limitremainingresetretryAfter
Transcribed from the provider's documentation on 2026-08-13 — docs.buttondown.com/api-rate-limits.
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EmailNewslettersRate LimitingThrottling

Limits

Global API limit api-key
requests_per_minute · per 60
600/60
Subscriber creation daily cap newsletter
requests_per_day · per 1
100/1
Firewall bypass limit newsletter
requests_per_hour · per 1
5/1
Documented in the OpenAPI parameter description for X-Buttondown-Bypass-Firewall as "aggressive rate limiting (5 per hour per newsletter)".

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curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/rate-limits?limit=25"

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