Certn · Rate Limits

Certn Rate Limits

Certn does not publish fixed numeric per-minute or per-day rate limits for its REST API in the public developer documentation. In practice the API is order-oriented (you create applications and poll or receive webhooks for results) rather than high-frequency, so throughput is effectively governed by your account configuration and the pace at which checks are ordered rather than a documented request cap. Webhook delivery has a defined retry policy: on a 408, 500, 502, 503, or 504 response from your endpoint, Certn retries up to three additional times with increasing back-off between attempts.

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

It captures 3 rate-limit definitions, measuring requests, records, and attempts.

The profile also includes 3 backoff/retry policies defined and response codes documented for throttled.

Tagged areas include Background Checks, Screening, Rate Limiting, Quotas, and Webhooks.

3 Limits Throttle: 429
Background ChecksScreeningRate LimitingQuotasWebhooks

Limits

REST API Requests account
requests
not published
No fixed numeric request-rate limit is documented for the Certn REST API.
List Pagination request
records
paginated via offset/limit
Applicant/report list endpoints return results in paginated pages.
Webhook Delivery Retries webhook
attempts
3 additional retries
On 408/500/502/503/504 from your endpoint, Certn retries up to three more times with increasing back-off.

Policies

Webhook Retry and Back-off
Failed webhook deliveries (408/500/502/503/504) are retried up to three additional times, waiting longer between each call; other 4xx responses trigger immediate back-off without retry.
Signature Verification
Each webhook carries a Certn-Signature header (HMAC-SHA256 over timestamp + payload) with a fresh timestamp per attempt to prevent replay; verify with constant-time comparison.
Backoff Strategy
Clients should implement exponential backoff with jitter and honor Retry-After if a 429 is returned.

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