Dealer.com · Rate Limits

Dealer Com Rate Limits

Dealer.com does not publish numeric rate limits for its partner APIs. Because the Website Integration API and the Cox Automotive Integration Platform are partner-gated and governed by individual agreements, any throughput limits, quotas, or throttling behavior are defined per partner contract and OAuth client rather than by a public rate card. Dealer.com states that it monitors what third parties do on the platform to protect dealer data and site performance, implying per-partner governance, but no specific numbers are documented.

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

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

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

Tagged areas include Automotive, Dealership, Partner Program, Rate Limiting, and Quotas.

3 Limits Throttle: 429
AutomotiveDealershipPartner ProgramRate LimitingQuotas

Limits

Website Integration API partner
requests
not published
Governed by partner agreement and platform performance monitoring; no public numeric limit.
Cox Platform API Requests oauth-client
requests
not published
OAuth-gated Cox Automotive Integration Platform; per-client limits defined by partner terms.
Inventory and Imagery Feeds partner
records
not published
Feed refresh cadence and volume set by integration configuration, not a public cap.

Policies

Platform Monitoring
Dealer.com monitors third-party activity on client websites to protect dealer data and site performance.
Per-Partner Governance
Limits and quotas are established per partner agreement rather than by a public rate card.
Backoff Strategy
Clients of OAuth-protected Cox platform endpoints should implement exponential backoff with jitter and honor Retry-After on 429 responses.

Sources