Department Of Veterans Affairs Rate Limits
The VA API Platform applies a basic platform-wide throttle of 60 requests per minute per API key across both sandbox and production environments. Exceeding the limit returns HTTP 429. Increases may be requested case-by-case via api@va.gov. Per-API exceptions exist (sandbox quotas may be lower for specific APIs such as Benefits Reference Data).
Department Of Veterans Affairs Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Rate Limits specification.
It captures 2 rate-limit definitions, measuring requests_per_minute.
The profile also includes 3 backoff/retry policies defined and response codes documented for throttled and quotaExceeded.
Tagged areas include Federal Government, Healthcare, Veterans, and Rate Limiting.
Limits
Policies
Sources
- https://developer.va.gov/production-access/working-with-va-apis
- https://developer.va.gov/explore/api/veteran-confirmation
- https://developer.va.gov/explore/api/benefits-reference-data/docs
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