Mercado Libre · Rate Limits

Mercado Libre Rate Limits

Mercado Libre applies per-app and per-user rate limits on the marketplace REST API. Public details are not exhaustive — limits depend on the resource (items, orders, search, etc.) and on the application's commercial agreement. The API returns HTTP 429 when limits are exceeded.

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

It captures 3 rate-limit definitions, measuring requests.

An exhausted limit returns HTTP 429.

This profile was written by API Evangelist and has not been verified against a page the provider published; treat every limit as unconfirmed until a dated transcription replaces it.

The profile also includes 2 backoff/retry policies defined and response codes documented for throttled.

Tagged areas include E-Commerce, Marketplace, Latin America, Payments, and Mercado Pago.

3 Limits Exhausted: HTTP 429
Method: generated, dated 2026-05-08.
Written by API Evangelist on 2026-05-08 and not verified against a page the provider published. Treat every limit as unconfirmed until a dated transcription replaces it.
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Limits

Default per-app application
requests
see provider documentation
Per-app rate limits apply across all endpoints; not publicly documented in detail.
Per-user user
requests
see provider documentation
Limits also apply per authenticated marketplace user/seller.
Search application
requests
see provider documentation
Search endpoints have stricter quotas than catalog reads.

Policies

Backoff Strategy
Honor 429 responses with exponential backoff and jitter; cache responses where allowed.
Webhooks
Prefer webhook notifications over polling for orders and questions to reduce request volume.

Sources

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