Formlabs · Rate Limits

Formlabs Rate Limits

The Formlabs Web API (Dashboard Developer API) enforces two documented rate limits: an IP-based limit of 100 requests per second and a user-based limit of 1500 requests per hour. Requests that exceed a limit return HTTP 429 with a Retry-after header indicating when to retry. The Local API (PreFormServer) runs on the user's own machine and does not publish account-level rate limits.

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

It captures 2 rate-limit definitions, measuring requests.

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

Tagged areas include 3D Printing, Additive Manufacturing, SLA, SLS, and Hardware.

2 Limits Throttle: 429
3D PrintingAdditive ManufacturingSLASLSHardwareDashboardRate LimitingQuotasThrottling

Limits

Requests Per Second (IP) ip
requests
100
IP-based limit of 100 requests per second on the Web API.
Requests Per Hour (User) account
requests
1500
User-based limit of 1500 requests per hour on the Web API.

Policies

Retry-After
Throttled requests return HTTP 429 with a Retry-after header; clients should wait the indicated interval before retrying.
Backoff Strategy
Clients should implement exponential backoff with jitter and honor the Retry-after header.

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