Federal Student Aid · Rate Limits

Federal Student Aid Rate Limits

Published rate limits for the College Scorecard API, the one publicly callable surface on this Federal Student Aid record. Replaces the 2026-05-04 scaffold, whose values were generated defaults and did not match anything the Department publishes. Limits below are transcribed from the Department's API Documentation page and the api.data.gov developer manual, and the response headers were observed live on 2026-09-09.

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

It captures 3 rate-limit definitions, across the registered and demo tiers, measuring requests_per_hour and requests_per_day.

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

The profile also includes response codes documented for throttled, quotaExceeded, keyRejected, and serviceUnavailable.

Tagged areas include Education, Federal Government, Financial Aid, Higher Education, and Rate Limiting.

3 Limits Exhausted: HTTP 429 Quota: 429 limitremainingresetretryAfter
Transcribed from the provider's documentation on 2026-09-09 — collegescorecard.ed.gov/data/api-documentation/.
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EducationFederal GovernmentFinancial AidHigher EducationRate LimitingQuotasThrottling

Limits

Default registered API key per-ip
requests_per_hour · per 1h
1000/1h
Shared DEMO_KEY per-ip
requests_per_hour · per 1h
30/1h
Shared DEMO_KEY (daily) per-ip
requests_per_day · per 24h
50/24h

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