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QuickBooks Rate Limits

QuickBooks Rate Limits is the rate-limit profile for QuickBooks on the APIs.io network — every limit transcribed verbatim from the provider’s own documentation on 2026-11-05.

It captures 12 rate-limit definitions, including REST API requests per realm (minute) — 500 requests per minute per realm ID.; REST API requests per realm and app (second) — 10 requests per second, per realm ID and app.; Sandbox emails per realm (day) — 40 emails per day per Realm..

Tagged areas include Accounting, Bookkeeping, Small Business, Finance, and Invoicing.

12 Limits
Transcribed from the provider's documentation on 2026-11-05 — developer.intuit.com/app/developer/qbo/docs/learn/limits-....
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AccountingBookkeepingSmall BusinessFinanceInvoicingPayrollTax

Limits

REST API requests per realm (minute) per-realm
500 requests per minute per realm ID.
· per minute
500
REST API requests per realm and app (second) per-realm-per-app
10 requests per second, per realm ID and app.
· per second
10
Sandbox emails per realm (day) per-realm
40 emails per day per Realm.
· per day
40
Batch requests per realm and app (minute) per-realm-per-app
Throttled at 40 Batch requests per minute, per realm ID and app.
POST /v3/company/{realmID}/batch
· per minute
40
Payloads per batch request per-request
Recommended maximum number of payloads in a single batch request is 30.
POST /v3/company/{realmID}/batch
30
Combined requests across Intuit endpoints per realm and app per-realm-per-app
there is a combined limit of 800 requests per minute, per realm ID and app.
· per minute
800
Request timeout per-request
Any requests that take longer than 120 seconds to execute will time out.
120
Entities per query response per-request
The maximum number of entities returned in a query response is 1000.
GET /v3/company/{realmID}/query
1000
Builder tier CorePlus API calls (month) per-workspaceBuilder
have an included limit of 500,000 CorePlus API calls per workspace per month.
· per month
500000
GraphQL requests per realm (minute) per-realm
500 requests per minute per realm ID.
POST https://api.intuit.com/graphql
· per minute
500
GraphQL requests per app (minute) per-app
800 requests per minute per app.
POST https://api.intuit.com/graphql
· per minute
800
GraphQL alias count per-request
The number of times a single field is called repeatedly under a different name (alias) in one query.
20

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