PDF Generator API · Rate Limits

Pdfgeneratorapi Rate Limits

PDF Generator API meters usage primarily through monthly document credits (one credit per generated document) and per-plan caps on templates and workspaces, rather than publishing fixed per-second request rate limits in its developer documentation. Authentication tokens (JWT) are short-lived and must be regenerated frequently. Specific per-second/per-minute request throttling values are not reconciled in this artifact.

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

It captures 4 rate-limit definitions, measuring documents, templates, workspaces, and requests.

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

Tagged areas include PDF, Document Generation, Templates, Reporting, and Workspaces.

4 Limits Throttle: 429
PDFDocument GenerationTemplatesReportingWorkspacesRate LimitingQuotasThrottling

Limits

Monthly Document Credits account
documents
per plan (50 to 250,000 per month)
One credit consumed per generated document; varies by subscription plan.
Templates account
templates
per plan (5 to unlimited)
Maximum stored templates allowed, varies by plan.
Workspaces account
workspaces
per plan (10 to unlimited on Team plans)
Maximum concurrent workspaces, available on Team plans.
Request Throttling account
requests
see provider documentation
Per-second/per-minute request limits are not published; not reconciled.

Policies

Token Expiration
JWTs are short-lived (seconds to minutes); clients must regenerate tokens frequently.
Backoff Strategy
Clients should implement exponential backoff with jitter and honor Retry-After on 429 responses.

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