Esri · Rate Limits

Esri Rate Limits

Esri does not publish a numeric per-key request rate for ArcGIS Location Services. What is documented is (a) a per-organization query rate ceiling on ArcGIS Online with a one-minute cooling-off period and HTTP 429, (b) hard per-operation size limits on GeoEnrichment and routing, and (c) monthly usage allowances that are metering, not throttling. No rate-limit response headers are documented on any surface.

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

It captures 6 rate-limit definitions, across the standard and premium tiers, measuring queries_per_minute, seconds, study_areas, miles, and composite.

Limit state is signalled in the limit, remaining, reset, and retryAfter response headers, and an exhausted limit returns HTTP 429.

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

Tagged areas include Geographic, Geospatial, GIS, Location, and Mapping.

6 Limits Exhausted: HTTP 429 Quota: 429 limitremainingresetretryAfter
Transcribed from the provider's documentation on 2026-09-07 — doc.arcgis.com/en/arcgis-online/manage-data/limit-usage-o....
View Source
GeographicGeospatialGISLocationMappingMapsSpatial AnalysisRate LimitingQuotasThrottling

Limits

ArcGIS Online organization query rate per-organization
queries_per_minute · minute
10000
Standard organizations share a 10K/minute query ceiling; premium data stores scale up to 96K/minute (M4). Exceeding it triggers a one-minute cooling-off period during which non-repeatable queries return HTTP 429.
ArcGIS Online organization query rate (premium data store, M4) per-organization
queries_per_minute · minute
96000
Cooling-off period after throttle per-organization
seconds · incident
60
A one-minute cooling-off window is triggered when the rate ceiling is hit. No Retry-After header is sent; 60 seconds is the documented wait.
GeoEnrichment study areas per request per-request
study_areas
1000
GeoEnrichment maximum ring buffer per-request
miles
1000
GeoEnrichment service area ceiling per-request
composite
300 miles drive distance / 300 minutes drive time / 27 miles walking distance / 540 walking minutes

Policies

Always send a token
Esri documents that rate limiting is applied to free operations and that including a token with every request — even a free one — raises the applicable limit and reduces throttling. Anonymous calls are the ones that get slowed down.
Backoff
With no Retry-After and no RateLimit-* headers, use a fixed 60-second wait on 429 followed by exponential backoff with jitter.
Retries are billable
Successful location-service calls are metered. Retrying a call that actually succeeded (200 with an error body misread, or a client timeout after server success) bills twice.

Work with this as data

Every rate limit here is available over the APIs.io API and to AI agents over MCP.

MCP server

One button, every client — Claude, Cursor, VS Code and the rest.

https://apis.io/mcp

Tools for rate limits

4 MCP tools reach this
  • find_rate_limitsBrowse and filter every rate limit in the catalog.
  • apis_io_searchSTART HERE — APIs, providers and tags for one query, each with its total.
  • resolveTurn a domain, URL or GitHub org into the provider it belongs to.
  • find_cohortsEvery scored population of providers in the catalog.
All 92 tools →

Call it yourself

curl for this page
This rate limit 
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/rate-limits/esri-rate-limits"
All rate limits 
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/rate-limits?limit=25"

Discovery needs no key. Ratings and market analysis are Pro.

Get an API key

Free tier, no form to fill in. Signing in shares your email address with us — we store it to create your key and to recognise you if you sign in with another provider. See our Privacy Policy and Terms.

GitHub Google LinkedIn

A second provider on the same verified email joins the account you already have.