Carrier Global · Rate Limits

Carrier Global Rate Limits

Carrier publishes one hard number for the Lynx APIs — 500,000 calls per month across the tenant's key — and no runtime rate-limit headers. Every one of the 16 published operations declares a 429 response, so exhaustion is contractually visible, but a client cannot see how much budget is left without tracking it itself.

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

It captures 1 rate-limit definition.

Limit state is signalled in the documented, x_ratelimit, ratelimit_rfc, and retry_after response headers, and an exhausted limit returns HTTP 429.

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

Tagged areas include HVAC, IoT, Telematics, Cold Chain, and Rate Limiting.

1 Limits Exhausted: HTTP 429 documentedx_ratelimitratelimit_rfcretry_after
Transcribed from the provider's documentation on 2026-09-05 — api.portal.fleet.lynx.carrier.io/public/graphql (getPubli....
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HVACIoTTelematicsCold ChainRate Limiting

Limits

Lynx API monthly call quota per-key
· per month
500000/month

Policies

Exponential backoff
The 429 schema itself instructs consumers: "Too many requests hit the API too quickly. We recommend exponential backoff of your requests." Best practices add a 30-second call timeout and retry-with-backoff on transient failures.
Cadence guidance instead of headers
Carrier substitutes published polling cadence for runtime headers — 30-minute recommended query duration for history and snapshot reads, and the Push API (webhooks) for anything more frequent than 30 minutes.
Cache the asset list
"Sync your asset list once a week to keep your cache current and avoid 400-level asset id errors. This also protects your API Calls quota."
Batch where the contract allows
multi-asset-history accepts 10 assets per request and asset-history-items accepts 1; batching is the documented way to stay inside the monthly quota.

Work with this as data

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

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