Azure Pipelines · Rate Limits

Microsoft Azure Pipelines Rate Limits

Azure DevOps Services (which hosts Azure Pipelines) meters REST calls in Azure DevOps throughput units (TSTUs) over a sliding five-minute window; delayed requests still return 200, blocked requests return 429.

Microsoft Azure Pipelines Rate Limits is the rate-limit profile for Azure Pipelines on the APIs.io network — every limit transcribed verbatim from the provider’s own documentation on 2026-11-05.

It captures 1 rate-limit definition, including Global TSTU sliding window — The global limit is 200 TSTUs within any sliding five-minute window..

Limit state is signalled in the retryAfter, delay, limit, and remaining response headers, and an exhausted limit returns HTTP 429.

The profile also includes response codes documented for throttled and delayedNotBlocked.

Tagged areas include Automation, Builds, CI/CD, Deployment, and DevOps.

1 Limits Exhausted: HTTP 429 retryAfterdelaylimitremaining
Transcribed from the provider's documentation on 2026-11-05 — learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/integrate/concepts....
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AutomationBuildsCI/CDDeploymentDevOpsPipelines

Limits

Global TSTU sliding window per-user
The global limit is 200 TSTUs within any sliding five-minute window.
· per 5 minutes

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  • 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.
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This rate limit 
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/rate-limits/microsoft-azure-pipelines-rate-limits"
All rate limits 
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/rate-limits?limit=25"

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