Federal Trade Commission · Rate Limits

Federal Trade Commission Rate Limits

Rate limiting on the FTC API is enforced by api.data.gov (API Umbrella), not by the FTC application. Limits below are the gateway operator's published values plus headers observed live against https://api.ftc.gov/v0/dnc-complaints on 2026-09-09. This file replaces a 2026-05-04 scaffold whose tiers (10/min free, 100/min professional, monthly quotas, 503 semantics) were invented — the FTC publishes none of those.

Federal Trade Commission Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for Federal Trade Commission 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.

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

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

Tagged areas include Antitrust, Consumer Protection, Do Not Call, Federal Government, and Law Enforcement.

3 Limits Exhausted: HTTP 429 Quota: 429 limitremainingretryAfterreset
Read from the provider's live responses on 2026-09-09 — api.data.gov/docs/developer-manual/.
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AntitrustConsumer ProtectionDo Not CallFederal GovernmentLaw EnforcementOpen Data

Limits

Default api.data.gov key per-key
requests · per hour
1000/hour
"Hourly Limit: 1,000 requests per hour" — the api.data.gov default applied to any self-issued key. Agencies may raise it on request.
DEMO_KEY (published gateway limit) per-ip
requests · per hour
30/hour
DEMO_KEY (published gateway daily limit) per-ip
requests · per day
50/day

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