Paystack · Rate Limits
Paystack Rate Limits
Reconciled rate-limit policy for the Paystack API. Paystack does not publish hard per-second request limits in its public reference; in practice it applies a leaky-bucket policy at the payment-orchestration layer and throttles abusive callers with HTTP 429 plus a Retry-After header. Sensitive write operations (transfer, refund) carry additional OTP and per-day caps.
Paystack Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for Paystack on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Rate Limits specification.
It captures 6 rate-limit definitions.
The profile also includes response codes documented for throttled and quotaExceeded.
Tagged areas include Payments, Rate Limiting, and Africa.
6 Limits
Throttle: 429
Quota: 429
PaymentsRate LimitingAfrica
Limits
account
Observed soft limit; bursts above this trigger 429 responses with Retry-After.
account
account
OTP is required by default; an account-wide quota and per-recipient daily cap apply.
account
account
customer