Parsio · Rate Limits

Parsio Rate Limits

Parsio gates usage primarily through a monthly credit quota tied to the subscription plan rather than published per-second request rate limits. A credit is consumed the first time a document or email is parsed, with 1, 2, or more credits per document/page depending on the parser engine. When credits are exhausted, documents are queued with a quota status rather than parsed. File size limits apply per upload endpoint (20MB synchronous, 50MB asynchronous). Specific per-account request-per-second rate limits are not publicly documented and are not reconciled in this artifact.

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

It captures 5 rate-limit definitions, measuring credits, documents, bytes, and records.

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

Tagged areas include AI, Document Parsing, Email Parsing, OCR, and Data Extraction.

5 Limits
AIDocument ParsingEmail ParsingOCRData ExtractionRate LimitingQuotasThrottling

Limits

Monthly Credit Quota account
credits
see plan
Credits granted per billing period by plan; one parse consumes 1+ credits by engine. Unused credits expire.
Document Quota Exhaustion account
documents
bounded by available credits
When credits run out, new documents receive a quota status instead of being parsed.
Synchronous Upload File Size request
bytes
20MB
Applies to POST /mailboxes/{mailbox_id}/upload-sync (single file).
Asynchronous Upload File Size request
bytes
50MB
Applies to POST /mailboxes/{mailbox_id}/upload (ZIP archives supported).
Document Listing Page Size request
records
500
Maximum per_page value on GET /mailboxes/{mailbox_id}/docs.

Policies

Credit-Based Quota
Usage is metered in credits by plan; higher tiers grant more monthly credits.
Backoff Strategy
Clients should implement retries with exponential backoff and prefer asynchronous upload plus webhooks for large or bulk jobs.

Sources