Kroger · Rate Limits

Kroger Rate Limits

Kroger Developer Portal does not publish numeric per-second or per-minute rate limits for its Public or Partner APIs. Limits are governed by the developer agreement and are typically negotiated with Kroger Digital for partner integrations.

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

It captures 2 rate-limit definitions, measuring varies.

The profile also includes 3 backoff/retry policies defined and response codes documented for throttled and serviceUnavailable.

Tagged areas include Rate Limiting, Groceries, and Retail.

2 Limits Throttle: 429
Rate LimitingGroceriesRetail

Limits

Public API access api-key
varies
undocumented; honor 429 responses
Partner API access account
varies
see partner agreement

Policies

Backoff Strategy
Honor Retry-After when present; otherwise apply exponential backoff with jitter on 429 responses.
Token Lifetime
OAuth 2 access tokens issued by the Kroger Authorization endpoints have short lifetimes; cache and refresh rather than re-requesting on every call.
Partner Limits Are Negotiated
Partner-tier limits are agreed in the partner contract; Kroger may apply per-application and per-account ceilings independent of any public values.

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