General Services Administration · Rate Limits

General Services Administration Rate Limits

GSA runs two distinct rate-limit regimes. Everything behind api.gsa.gov / api.data.gov shares one API Umbrella hourly allowance per key. SAM.gov meters DAILY and by WHO holds the key — a non-federal user with no SAM.gov role gets 10 requests a day, while a federal system account gets 10,000.

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

It captures 8 rate-limit definitions, across the free and anonymous 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, and errorCode.

Tagged areas include Federal Government, Procurement, Acquisition, Open Data, and Government.

8 Limits Exhausted: HTTP 429 Quota: 429 limitremainingresetretryAfter
Transcribed from the provider's documentation on 2026-09-12 — api.data.gov/docs/developer-manual/ (Web Service Rate Lim....
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Limits

api.data.gov default api-key
requests_per_hour · hour
1000/rolling
DEMO_KEY hourly ip-address
requests_per_hour · hour
30
DEMO_KEY daily ip-address
requests_per_day · day
50
SAM.gov — non-federal user with no SAM.gov role api-key
requests_per_day · day
10
SAM.gov — non-federal user with a SAM.gov role api-key
requests_per_day · day
1000
SAM.gov — federal user api-key
requests_per_day · day
1000
SAM.gov — non-federal system account system-account
requests_per_day · day
1000
SAM.gov — federal system account system-account
requests_per_day · day
10000

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