Lightspeed Commerce · Rate Limits

Lightspeed Rate Limits

Every Lightspeed product line rate-limits differently, and two of them scale the limit with how much hardware the retailer runs. X-Series uses a 5-minute window sized at 300 x registers + 50; R-Series uses a leaky bucket whose size and drip rate grow per register, with per-request costs that vary by query parameter and nested relation. Both publish runtime headers, which is what an agent actually needs.

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

It captures 6 rate-limit definitions, measuring requests.

The profile also includes response codes documented for throttled.

Tagged areas include Commerce, Point-of-Sale, Retail, Restaurant, and Inventory.

6 Limits Throttle: 429
CommercePoint-of-SaleRetailRestaurantInventoryLoyaltyPaymentsE-CommerceOmnichannel

Limits

X-Series API requests, per retailer per application per-application-per-retailer
requests · 5 minutes
350
X-Series API requests, per retailer for all users per-retailer-all-users
requests · 5 minutes
350
X-Series token endpoint per-application
requests
R-Series leaky bucket, base per-account
requests · per second drip
90
R-Series leaky bucket, per additional register per-account
requests · per second drip
10
R-Series burst limiter per-account
requests · 1 second

Sources

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Every rate limit here is available over the APIs.io API and to AI agents over MCP.

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Tools for rate limits

4 MCP tools reach this
  • find_rate_limitsBrowse and filter every rate limit in the catalog.
  • apis_io_searchSTART HERE — APIs, providers and tags for one query, each with its total.
  • resolveTurn a domain, URL or GitHub org into the provider it belongs to.
  • find_cohortsEvery scored population of providers in the catalog.
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Call it yourself

curl for this page
This rate limit 
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/rate-limits/lightspeed-rate-limits"
All rate limits 
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/rate-limits?limit=25"

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