SAM.gov · Rate Limits

Sam.Gov Rate Limits

Rate-limits artifact for SAM.gov. Trimmed to a single umbrella entry pending manual reconciliation. SAM.gov is a free public federal API operated by GSA. There is no fee. Specific per-day request limits vary by user role (federal, non-federal, general) and are not published as concrete numbers on the public docs; users must contact GSA via fsd.gov for the applicable threshold.

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

It captures 1 rate-limit definition, measuring varies.

The profile also includes 3 backoff/retry policies defined and response codes documented for throttled and quotaExceeded.

Tagged areas include Contracts, Entity Management, Federal Government, GSA, and Procurement.

1 Limits Throttle: 429 Quota: 429
ContractsEntity ManagementFederal GovernmentGSAProcurementRate Limiting

Limits

Public API daily quota api-key
varies
role-based daily request quota; see open.gsa.gov docs and fsd.gov for specifics
Documented as varying by federal / non-federal / general user role. Concrete numbers are not published; contact fsd.gov.

Policies

API Key Required
All requests require a free public API key from the SAM.gov account page.
Role-Based Quotas
Daily request thresholds differ by federal vs non-federal vs general role. Numbers are not published; contact fsd.gov for the limit applicable to your account.
Pagination Limit
The `limit` query parameter accepts up to 1,000 records per page.

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