Ola · Rate Limits

Ola Rate Limits

Ola enforces rate limiting across both its Ride APIs and Ola Maps platform. The Ola Corporate API publishes a rate limit of 1,000 requests per minute across all endpoints. The Ola Maps platform enforces monthly and per-minute rate limits returning HTTP 429 when exceeded, with free tier thresholds of 500K–5M calls per month. Consumer Ride API rate limits are not publicly documented and are governed by affiliate partner agreements.

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

It captures 5 rate-limit definitions, measuring requests_per_minute, api_calls_per_month, and requests.

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

Tagged areas include Ride-Sharing, Maps, Transportation, Rate Limiting, and India.

5 Limits Throttle: 429

Ride-SharingMapsTransportationRate LimitingIndia

Limits

Ola Corporate API Rate Limit account

requests_per_minute · minute

1000

Applies across all Corporate API endpoints: user management, ride viewing, invoice download, and expense code operations. Exceeding this limit returns HTTP 429 with the message "Allowed rate limit breached".

Ola Maps Monthly Free Tier Limit account

api_calls_per_month · month

500000

Standard free tier is 500K API calls per month across all Ola Maps APIs. Promotional tier (as of February 2025) extends this to 5M calls per month for new and existing accounts. Exceeding the monthly cap returns HTTP 429.

Ola Maps Promotional Monthly Free Tier account

api_calls_per_month · month

5000000

Promotional expansion announced February 2025 covering 90%+ of Indian developers and startups. Contact support@olakrutrim.com to upgrade from the standard 500K cap.

Ola Maps Per-Minute Rate Limit account

requests_per_minute · minute

-1

Ola Maps enforces per-minute rate limits in addition to the monthly cap; exact per-minute thresholds are not publicly documented. HTTP 429 is returned when exceeded with guidance to contact support@olakrutrim.com for a free upgrade.

Ola Ride API (Consumer/Affiliate) Rate Limit account

requests · varies

-1

Rate limits for the Consumer Ride APIs are not publicly disclosed. Quotas are governed by the affiliate partner agreement received after certification by Ola.

Policies

Hard Monthly Cap (Ola Maps)

Ola Maps enforces a hard monthly API call cap per account. Requests above the free threshold are either billed (on paid plans) or rejected with HTTP 429 until the next billing cycle or a plan upgrade is applied.

Per-Minute Throttle (Ola Corporate)

The Ola Corporate API returns HTTP 429 with "Allowed rate limit breached" when more than 1,000 requests are issued in any 60-second window. Clients should implement request queuing or exponential backoff to stay within this limit.

Invite-Only Access Gating (Ride APIs)

Consumer Ride APIs are only accessible after affiliate certification; unapproved clients cannot reach production endpoints regardless of rate limits.

Exponential Backoff

Clients hitting 429 responses on any Ola API should apply exponential backoff with jitter before retrying. Contact support@olakrutrim.com (Maps) or corp_apisupport@olacabs.com (Corporate) for quota increases.

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