ESRI ArcGIS · Rate Limits

Esri Arcgis Rate Limits

ArcGIS Location Platform and ArcGIS Online enforce service-specific request and concurrency limits. Most consumption is governed by the monthly free-tier ceilings (e.g. 2M tiles, 20K geocodes, 20K routes) above which usage is billed; per-second/per-minute throttle numbers are not centrally published and vary per service. Enterprise customers can negotiate higher limits.

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

It captures 10 rate-limit definitions, measuring tiles_per_month, geocodes_per_month, routes_per_month, points_per_month, and requests_per_month.

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

Tagged areas include Rate Limiting, GIS, Location Services, and Mapping.

10 Limits Throttle: 429
Rate LimitingGISLocation ServicesMapping

Limits

Basemap tiles — monthly inclusion api-key
tiles_per_month · month
2000000
Above 2M tiles/month, billed at $0.15/1,000.
Geocoding — monthly inclusion api-key
geocodes_per_month · month
20000
Above 20K/month, billed at $0.50/1,000.
Routing — monthly inclusion api-key
routes_per_month · month
20000
Above 20K/month, billed at $0.50/1,000.
Elevation — monthly inclusion api-key
points_per_month · month
50000
Above 50K/month, billed at $1.00/1,000.
Places — nearby/extent search inclusion api-key
requests_per_month · month
500
Places — attributes inclusion api-key
places_per_month · month
100
Applies separately to each attribute family - place ($0.05/1,000), address ($0.10/1,000), details ($0.13/1,000) and location ($0.35/1,000).
Basemap sessions — monthly inclusion api-key
sessions_per_month · month
1000
Above 1K sessions/month, billed at $4.00/1,000.
Static maps — monthly inclusion api-key
images_per_month · month
1000
Above 1K static maps/month, billed at $0.90/1,000.
Service areas — monthly inclusion api-key
service_areas_per_month · month
5000
Above 5K service areas/month, billed at $50.00/1,000.
Per-service request throttle api-key
varies
see service-specific documentation

Policies

API-key scoping
Quotas and metering are tracked per API key; rotate or scope keys per application to isolate consumption.
Soft caps via monthly free tiers
Inclusion ceilings are soft — exceeding them flips usage from free to per-1,000 billed rather than blocking; absolute hard caps require contact-sales agreements.
ArcGIS Online credits
Credit-based services (geocoding, routing, analysis from ArcGIS Online) deplete the annual user-bundled credits before incurring credit-block top-ups.

Sources

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