Kroger · Rate Limits

Kroger Rate Limits

Kroger publishes a daily call ceiling for each Public API. The limits are applied PER ENDPOINT and shared equally across ALL clients — Kroger states it does not currently support per-client limits. The window resets 24 hours after the client's first call to that endpoint. Partner APIs are documented as having no rate limit.

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

It captures 5 rate-limit definitions.

Limit state is signalled in the published, headers, and note response headers, and an exhausted limit returns HTTP undocumented.

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.

5 Limits Exhausted: HTTP undocumented publishedheadersnote
Transcribed from the provider's documentation on 2026-08-27 — Kroger developer documentation, read anonymously from the....
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Rate LimitingGroceriesRetail

Limits

Products API per-endpoint
/v1/products
· per 1d
10000/1d
The 10,000 calls may be distributed across all operations that use the /products endpoint (product search and product details) as the client sees fit.
Locations API per-endpoint
/v1/locations, /v1/chains, /v1/departments
· per 1d
1600/1d
1,600 calls per day PER ENDPOINT, across three endpoints. Distributable across the operations that share an endpoint (list / details / HEAD query).
Cart API per-endpoint
/v1/cart
· per 1d
5000/1d
Identity API per-endpoint
/v1/identity/profile
· per 1d
5000/1d
Partner APIs account
"At this time, there are no rate limits on the number of requests to Partner APIs." Kroger nonetheless recommends Partner access precisely for clients who expect to exceed Public limits.

Policies

Batch Instead of Loop
Kroger's documented mitigation: "use parameters to fetch multiple resources in a single request" — e.g. the productId filter to return several products rather than one call per product.
Token Lifetime
Access tokens live 1,800 seconds. Cache and reuse rather than re-requesting a token per call; token requests are themselves calls.
Partner Limits Are Contractual
Partner-tier ceilings, where any exist, are set in the partner agreement rather than published.

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