Looker · Rate Limits

Looker Rate Limits

Looker (Google Cloud) enforces monthly API call quotas that scale with edition (Standard / Enterprise / Embed). Quotas are split between query-based API calls and administrative API calls. Per-second throttling is governed by the Looker (Google Cloud core) API service quotas via Google Cloud Quotas; raise via support.

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

It captures 8 rate-limit definitions, measuring requests_per_month and tokens_per_month.

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

Tagged areas include Rate Limiting, BI Platform, and Business Intelligence.

8 Limits Throttle: 429 Quota: 429
Rate LimitingBI PlatformBusiness Intelligence

Limits

Query-based API calls (Standard) account
requests_per_month · month
1000
Administrative API calls (Standard) account
requests_per_month · month
1000
Query-based API calls (Enterprise) account
requests_per_month · month
100000
Administrative API calls (Enterprise) account
requests_per_month · month
10000
Query-based API calls (Embed) account
requests_per_month · month
500000
Administrative API calls (Embed) account
requests_per_month · month
100000
Conversational Analytics input tokens (per Developer User) user
tokens_per_month · month
4000000
Conversational Analytics output tokens (per Developer User) user
tokens_per_month · month
80000

Policies

Edition-scoped quotas
API call quotas are split between query-based and administrative APIs and scale by edition.
Per-user token quotas
Conversational Analytics tokens are quota'd per user role; overage applies after Oct 1 2026.
Cloud quota
For the Looker (Google Cloud core) API, additional per-second/per-region throttling is governed by Google Cloud quotas; request increases via the Cloud Quotas page.
Backoff
On 429, retry with exponential backoff and respect Retry-After when present.

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