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Lithic Com Rate Limits

Lithic publishes fixed numeric requests-per-second (RPS) limits, enforced separately per resource and per HTTP method (a GET and a POST to the same resource draw from independent counters, but multiple GET routes under the same resource, e.g. GET /cards and GET /cards/{token}, share one counter). Defaults differ between Production and Sandbox, with the cards and transfers resources called out as documented exceptions to the default.

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

It captures 13 rate-limit definitions, measuring requests.

The profile also includes 4 backoff/retry policies defined and response codes documented for throttled.

Tagged areas include Card Issuing, Fintech, Rate Limiting, and Quotas.

13 Limits Throttle: 429
Card IssuingFintechRate LimitingQuotas

Limits

Default Read (Production) resource
requests
30 RPS
Default GET rate limit per resource in Production, unless a resource-specific exception applies.
Default Write (Production) resource
requests
5 RPS
Default POST/PATCH/DELETE rate limit per resource in Production, unless a resource-specific exception applies.
Cards Read (Production) resource
requests
15 RPS
Documented exception for the cards resource in Production.
Cards Write (Production) resource
requests
2 RPS
Documented exception for the cards resource in Production.
Transfers Read (Production) resource
requests
5 RPS
Documented exception for the transfers resource in Production.
Transfers Write (Production) resource
requests
2 RPS
Documented exception for the transfers resource in Production.
Default Read (Sandbox) resource
requests
15 RPS
Default GET rate limit per resource in Sandbox, unless a resource-specific exception applies.
Default Write (Sandbox) resource
requests
1 RPS
Default POST/PATCH/DELETE rate limit per resource in Sandbox, unless a resource-specific exception applies.
Cards Read (Sandbox) resource
requests
15 RPS
Documented exception for the cards resource in Sandbox (same as Production default).
Cards Write (Sandbox) resource
requests
2 RPS
Documented exception for the cards resource in Sandbox (same as Production).
Transfers Read (Sandbox) resource
requests
5 RPS
Documented exception for the transfers resource in Sandbox (same as Production).
Transfers Write (Sandbox) resource
requests
2 RPS
Documented exception for the transfers resource in Sandbox (same as Production).
Embedded Card UI endpoint
requests
not rate limited
GET /v1/embed/card is explicitly excluded from rate limiting.

Policies

Per-Resource, Per-Method Enforcement
Limits are tracked independently for each resource and HTTP method; multiple routes under the same resource and method share one counter.
429 Response Headers
A throttled request returns HTTP 429 with an x-requests-remaining header (RPS quota left in the current second) and a retry-after header (seconds to wait).
SDK Auto-Retry
Official Lithic SDKs natively honor the retry-after header and retry throttled requests automatically.
Temporary Reductions
Lithic reserves the right to temporarily lower limits during high load or service incidents, independent of the published defaults.

Sources

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