Dentrix · Rate Limits

Dentrix Rate Limits

Dentrix does not publish a general per-second request rate limit. The Dentrix Ascend API Exchange meters usage by a monthly allowance per Dentrix Ascend location - a documented 30,000 API calls and 3 GB of data per location per month, with metered overages beyond that ($0.0018 per additional call, $1.00 per additional GB). On the on-premise Dentrix Developer Program, throughput is bound to the local Dentrix database/ODBC layer and each office's hardware rather than a cloud quota. Exact per-endpoint or per-second caps are partner-agreement specific and not publicly documented; figures here are drawn from public developer materials and are not reconciled against a signed agreement.

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

It captures 5 rate-limit definitions, measuring requests, bytes, and queries.

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

Tagged areas include Dental, Practice Management, Partner API, Rate Limiting, and Quotas.

5 Limits Throttle: 429
DentalPractice ManagementPartner APIRate LimitingQuotas

Limits

Ascend Included Calls location
requests
30000 per location per month
Included in the $47/location/month Dentrix Ascend API Exchange fee.
Ascend Included Data location
bytes
3 GB per location per month
Included data transfer allowance per Dentrix Ascend location.
Ascend Call Overage location
requests
metered above 30000
Overage billed at $0.0018 per call beyond the included allowance.
Ascend Data Overage location
bytes
metered above 3 GB
Overage billed at $1.00 per GB beyond the included allowance.
Desktop (DDP) Throughput deployment
queries
hardware/ODBC-bound
On-premise integrations are bound by the local Dentrix database and office hardware, not a cloud quota.

Policies

Partner-Gated Access
API keys are issued only after application, use-case review, and a signed API agreement; there is no public self-serve tier.
Metered Overage
Dentrix Ascend usage above the per-location monthly allowance is metered and billed rather than hard-blocked.
Backoff Strategy
Clients should implement exponential backoff with jitter and honor Retry-After on 429 responses.

Sources