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, conforming to the API Commons Rate Limits specification.

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

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

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

3 Limits Throttle: 429 Quota: 400
EmailNewslettersRate LimitingThrottling

Limits

Global API limit api-key
requests_per_minute
600
Subscriber creation daily cap newsletter
requests_per_day
100
Firewall bypass limit newsletter
requests_per_hour
5