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, conforming to the API Commons Rate Limits specification.

It captures 8 rate-limit definitions, across the free and anonymous tiers, measuring requests_per_hour and requests_per_day.

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 Throttle: 429 Quota: 429
Federal GovernmentProcurementAcquisitionOpen DataGovernmentSAM.govTravelAnalyticsAPI Management

Limits

api.data.gov default api-key
requests_per_hour · hour
1000
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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