Canvas · Rate Limits

Canvas Rate Limits

Canvas throttles by COST, not by request count. Every request deducts a floating-point cost from a per-access-token quota that replenishes over time faster than real-time. Replaces the 2026-05-04 scaffold values, which were invented.

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

It captures 1 rate-limit definition.

Tagged areas include Education, EdTech, GraphQL, Learning Management System, and LMS.

1 Limits
EducationEdTechGraphQLLearning Management SystemLMSLTIOpen-SourceREST

Limits

per-access-token
unpublished numeric quota — Canvas publishes the mechanism and the headers, not the ceiling

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Every rate limit here is available over the APIs.io API and to AI agents over MCP.

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Tools for rate limits

4 MCP tools reach this
  • find_rate_limitsBrowse and filter every rate limit in the catalog.
  • apis_io_searchSTART HERE — APIs, providers and tags for one query, each with its total.
  • resolveTurn a domain, URL or GitHub org into the provider it belongs to.
  • find_cohortsEvery scored population of providers in the catalog.
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Call it yourself

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

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