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Power Bi Rate Limits

Power BI REST APIs apply per-user throttling to prevent overuse, returning HTTP 429 with a Retry-After header when a calling identity exceeds the documented per-time-window threshold. Numeric per-second/minute ceilings are not exhaustively published; specific operation groups (admin, embed-token, capacity, dataset refresh) carry their own published per-hour and per-day caps in the relevant operation reference. For Power BI Embedded and Fabric F-SKU capacity, throughput is governed by the v-core capacity rather than by API quota: utilization is evaluated every 30 seconds and capacities exceeding 100% enter "interactive request delay" mode.

Power Bi Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for Power BI on the APIs.io network, in the API Commons Rate Limits shape.

It captures 4 rate-limit definitions, measuring varies, v-core_seconds, and percent_overload.

Limit state is signalled in the retryAfter and requestId response headers, and an exhausted limit returns HTTP 429.

This profile was written by API Evangelist and has not been verified against a page the provider published; treat every limit as unconfirmed until a dated transcription replaces it.

The profile also includes 5 backoff/retry policies defined and response codes documented for throttled and capacityOverload.

Tagged areas include Analytics, Business Intelligence, Microsoft, and Rate Limiting.

4 Limits Exhausted: HTTP 429 retryAfterrequestId
Method: generated, dated 2026-05-05.
Written by API Evangelist on 2026-05-05 and not verified against a page the provider published. Treat every limit as unconfirmed until a dated transcription replaces it.
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Limits

Per-user request throttling user
varies
per-operation thresholds; see operation reference
Power BI throttles when a single user exceeds the per-operation time-window threshold; HTTP 429 + Retry-After is returned.
Embed-token generation (Pro / PPU) user
varies
limited number per master account or service principal (development testing only)
Production embedding requires assigning a Power BI Embedded (A SKU) or Fabric (F SKU) capacity; capacity removes the embed-token cap.
Embedded / Premium capacity utilization capacity
v-core_seconds
30 seconds of CPU per v-core per 30-second cycle
Each evaluation cycle aggregates interactive (current cycle) plus background (1/2880 of past 24h) operations.
Capacity overload behavior capacity
percent_overload
no delay below 10% overload; up to 20s interactive delay at 100% overload
Capacity remains in interactive-request-delay mode until the previous evaluation drops below 100% utilization.

Policies

Honor Retry-After
On 429, clients must wait the number of seconds indicated in Retry-After before retrying.
Capacity-bound throttling
For Embedded and Fabric workloads, scale up the v-core capacity (or use autoscale where supported) rather than retrying through 429 storms.
Cross-region operations
Operations that download files from a different region than the call origin may take longer; treat regional differences as latency, not throttling.
Operation-level limits
Specific operations (admin scans, dataset refresh, embed-token generation) have their own caps documented in the per-operation reference; consult the operation page rather than assuming a uniform global limit.
Development vs production embedding
Trial embed tokens with Pro/PPU are for development testing only; production embedding must run on purchased capacity.

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