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Dat Freight Rate Limits

DAT does not publish numeric API rate limits on its public site, and its developer portal reference is gated behind an account login, so no official per-minute or per-day request caps could be confirmed during this build. A third-party integration write-up cites throttling around 100 requests/minute, but it is unclear whether this is a DAT-enforced limit or an integrator recommendation - treat it as an unconfirmed estimate. Access itself is gated by subscription and seat entitlements (load board seat + Connexion for loads, RateView seat + Connexion for rates) rather than by a published quota.

Dat Freight Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for DAT Freight & Analytics on the APIs.io network, in the API Commons Rate Limits shape.

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

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 3 backoff/retry policies defined and response codes documented for throttled.

Tagged areas include Freight, Load Board, RateView, Rate Limiting, and Quotas.

3 Limits Exhausted: HTTP 429
Method: generated, dated 2026-07-05.
Written by API Evangelist on 2026-07-05 and not verified against a page the provider published. Treat every limit as unconfirmed until a dated transcription replaces it.
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FreightLoad BoardRateViewRate LimitingQuotas

Limits

Overall API Requests account
requests
not published (third-party estimate ~100/min, unconfirmed)
No official numeric request-rate limit is documented publicly; portal reference is account-gated.
RateView Rate Lookups account
requests
not published
Governed by RateView Combo Pro/Premium entitlement rather than a published per-minute cap.
Load Board Access account
seats
per subscription
Bounded by load board seat and Connexion seat entitlements, not a request quota.

Policies

Subscription Gating
API access is gated by DAT One product subscription and seat entitlements rather than by a public quota.
Backoff Strategy
Implement exponential backoff with jitter and honor Retry-After on 429 responses.
Token Refresh
Refresh organization and user tokens before expiry to avoid 401-driven retry storms.

Sources

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