Postman · Rate Limits

Postman Rate Limits

The Postman public API enforces a fixed per-minute request ceiling per API key (300 requests/minute) layered over per-plan monthly quotas (10k Free, 100k Solo, 1M Team, 10M Enterprise). Rate-limit state is exposed on every response via standard RateLimit and X-RateLimit headers; throttled responses return 429 with a RetryAfter hint. Monthly call budgets are enforced separately and consumption is observable from the resource-usage dashboard.

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

It captures 6 rate-limit definitions, measuring requests_per_minute, requests_per_month, and monitoring_requests_per_month.

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

Tagged areas include API Development, Collaboration, and Rate Limiting.

6 Limits Throttle: 429 Quota: 429
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Limits

Per-key request rate api-key
requests_per_minute · minute
300
Fixed 60-second window per RateLimit-Policy header (300;w=60).
Free plan monthly Postman API calls account
requests_per_month · month
10000
Solo plan monthly Postman API calls account
requests_per_month · month
100000
Team plan monthly Postman API calls account
requests_per_month · month
1000000
Enterprise plan monthly Postman API calls account
requests_per_month · month
10000000
API monitoring requests account
monitoring_requests_per_month · month
1000
1k on Free; 10k on Solo, Team, and Enterprise.

Policies

Backoff on RetryAfter
When a 429 is returned, clients must honor the RetryAfter header (seconds until next allowed request).
Header-driven pacing
Clients should pace requests using RateLimit-Remaining and RateLimit-Reset rather than fixed sleeps.
Monthly quota separation
Per-minute throttling and monthly Postman-API-call quotas are enforced independently; exceeding the monthly quota also returns 429.
Usage observability
Total and remaining monthly quota are visible on every response and on the Postman resource-usage dashboard.

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