PDFEndpoint · Rate Limits

Pdfendpoint Rate Limits

PDFEndpoint enforces a per-minute request rate limit that differs by account type - 30 requests per minute on free accounts and 240 requests per minute on paid accounts - alongside a monthly conversion quota tied to the billing cycle. Responses include X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, X-RateLimit-Reset, X-Monthly-Limit, and X-Monthly-Used headers. Requests that exceed a limit return HTTP 429.

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

It captures 3 rate-limit definitions, measuring requests and conversions.

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

Tagged areas include PDF, HTML to PDF, Conversion, Rate Limiting, and Quotas.

3 Limits Throttle: 429
PDFHTML to PDFConversionRate LimitingQuotasThrottling

Limits

Requests Per Minute (Free) account
requests
30
Free accounts are limited to 30 requests per minute.
Requests Per Minute (Paid) account
requests
240
Paid accounts are limited to 240 requests per minute.
Monthly Conversion Quota account
conversions
see plan
Monthly successful-conversion allowance set by the active plan; surfaced via X-Monthly-Limit / X-Monthly-Used headers.

Policies

Rate Limit Headers
Responses expose X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, X-RateLimit-Reset, X-Monthly-Limit, and X-Monthly-Used.
Backoff Strategy
On HTTP 429, clients should back off and retry after the window resets per X-RateLimit-Reset.

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