IDnow · Rate Limits

Idnow Rate Limits

IDnow does not publish specific public rate-limit values for its gateway API. Usage is governed by the company's contract and configured environment rather than a published per-account quota. Verification throughput on the VideoIdent product is additionally bounded by the availability of human Ident Specialists. Specific per-endpoint limits are not reconciled in this artifact.

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

It captures 2 rate-limit definitions, measuring requests and identifications.

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

Tagged areas include Identity Verification, KYC, Identity Proofing, AML, and eSign.

2 Limits Throttle: 429
Identity VerificationKYCIdentity ProofingAMLeSignRate LimitingQuotasThrottling

Limits

Gateway Requests company
requests
see provider documentation
No public per-account request rate is published; governed by contract.
VideoIdent Throughput company
identifications
see provider documentation
Bounded by Ident Specialist availability and contracted capacity.

Policies

Contract-Governed Limits
Applicable limits are defined by the company agreement and environment, not a published quota.
Backoff Strategy
Clients should implement exponential backoff with jitter and honor Retry-After on 429 responses.

Sources