Drata · Rate Limits

Drata Rate Limits

Drata publishes exactly one rate limit for the Public API v2 and it is stated verbatim in the help-centre API article: "A rate limit of 500 requests / minute will be enforced per unique source IP." Drata declares no RateLimit-* or X-RateLimit-* response headers in the OpenAPI document and documents none, so the only runtime signal an agent gets is the 429 status and a Retry-After header.

Drata Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for Drata on the APIs.io network, in the API Commons Rate Limits shape.

It captures 1 rate-limit definition, measuring requests.

Limit state is signalled in the documented, ratelimit_draft_headers, x_ratelimit_headers, and note response headers, and an exhausted limit returns HTTP 429.

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

Tagged areas include GRC, Compliance, Rate Limiting, Quotas, and Throttling.

1 Limits Exhausted: HTTP 429 documentedratelimit_draft_headersx_ratelimit_headersnote
Transcribed from the provider's documentation on 2026-08-27 — help.drata.com/en/articles/6695964-drata-public-api.
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Limits

Public API v2 default source-ip
requests · minute
500/1m
Per SOURCE IP, not per API key and not per tenant. Two consequences an integrator has to plan for: several API keys behind one egress IP share a single 500/min budget, so minting more keys buys no throughput; and several independent agents behind one NAT or one CI runner throttle each other. Conversely, distributing callers across egress IPs multiplies the effective budget, which is unusual enough to be worth stating.

Policies

Backoff strategy
Honour Retry-After when present, then exponential backoff with jitter. For bulk Custom Connection syncs prefer session-based batch uploads over per-record POSTs — the record endpoints are where the 500/min ceiling actually bites.
Source-IP allowlisting
Drata API keys support an optional allowed-IP list. That interacts directly with the per-source-IP limit: pinning a key to one egress IP also pins it to one 500/min budget.

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