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Confluent The Data Streaming Platform Rate Limits

Confluent documents the rate-limit SIGNALLING contract in full but publishes no numeric per-endpoint limits, and says so explicitly: "Resource and rate limits, and the default and maximum sizes of paginated data are not considered part of the API contract and may change (possibly dynamically). It is the client's responsibility to read the road signs and obey the speed limit." limit_count is therefore an honest zero — the headers are the contract, the numbers are not. This artifact replaces a 2026-05-04 scaffold that asserted 10/100/1000 requests-per-minute tiers Confluent has never published.

Confluent The Data Streaming Platform Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for [Confluent the Data Streaming Platform](https://apis.io/providers/confluent-the-data-streaming-platform/) on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Rate Limits specification.

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

Tagged areas include Apache Flink, Apache Kafka, Confluent Cloud, Connectors, and Data Streaming.

0 Limits Throttle: 429 Quota: 402
Apache FlinkApache KafkaConfluent CloudConnectorsData StreamingEvent StreamingKafka ConnectksqlDBReal-Time DataRESTSchema RegistryStream Processing

Policies

Multiple safeguards
Confluent states it employs multiple safeguards; too many requests in quick succession or too many concurrent operations may be throttled or rejected.
Client responsibility
Limits may change dynamically and are not part of the API contract. Clients must read the response headers rather than hard-coding a rate.

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

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