Carbone · Rate Limits

Carbone Rate Limits

Carbone Cloud documents have a default 60-second sync timeout and a 5-minute async timeout (via webhooks). The rendered document URL is valid for one hour or until first download. Cloud plans size their throughput by data volume injected per render (documents are counted per 1 MB of injected JSON data). On-prem deployments scale to provisioned host capacity.

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

It captures 4 rate-limit definitions, measuring seconds, hours, and per-1MB-injected-data.

Limit state is signalled in the Authorization and carbone-version response headers, and an exhausted limit returns HTTP 429.

This profile was written by API Evangelist and has not been verified against a page the provider published; treat every limit as unconfirmed until a dated transcription replaces it.

The profile also includes 2 backoff/retry policies defined and response codes documented for throttled.

Tagged areas include Document Generation, PDF, Templates, Open Source, and Office.

4 Limits Exhausted: HTTP 429 Authorizationcarbone-version
Method: generated, dated 2026-05-08.
Written by API Evangelist on 2026-05-08 and not verified against a page the provider published. Treat every limit as unconfirmed until a dated transcription replaces it.
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Limits

Sync render timeout request
seconds
60
Async render timeout request
seconds
300
Async via webhooks; result delivered when ready.
Render document availability render
hours
1
Or until first download.
Document accounting account
per-1MB-injected-data
see plan
Each render counts based on size of injected JSON.

Policies

Backoff Strategy
Honor 429 with exponential backoff; use async-with-webhook for long renders.
Single-use render-id
Render IDs are cryptographically random and act as a single-use password per generated document.

Sources

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