Dacast · Rate Limits

Dacast Rate Limits

Dacast does not publish explicit numeric API rate limits in its public developer documentation. Access is gated by plan (Scale and Custom), and the practical ceilings on a Dacast account are the plan's bandwidth and storage allotments plus overage pricing rather than a documented requests-per-minute quota on the REST API. Values below are placeholders pending reconciliation against the developer portal or a live account.

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

It captures 3 rate-limit definitions, measuring requests, bandwidth, and storage.

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

Tagged areas include Live Streaming, Video, VOD, OTT, and Rate Limiting.

3 Limits Throttle: 429
Live StreamingVideoVODOTTRate LimitingQuotasThrottling

Limits

Requests Per Minute (RPM) account
requests
not published
No documented per-account RPM ceiling; assume fair-use throttling.
Bandwidth Allotment account
bandwidth
per plan (2.4 TB / 6 TB / 24 TB per year)
Practical delivery ceiling; overages billed per GB.
Storage Allotment account
storage
per plan (500 GB / 250 GB / 2,000 GB)
Practical storage ceiling; overages billed per GB per month.

Policies

Plan Gating
API access is restricted to Scale and Custom plans; trial accounts must request temporary access from sales.
Backoff Strategy
Clients should implement exponential backoff with jitter and honor 429 responses / Retry-After if returned.

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