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Scrapfly Rate Limits

Scrapfly does not advertise per-second request limits. Throttling is enforced primarily through account-level concurrency caps (set by subscription tier) and credit-pool exhaustion. Per-domain throttling may also engage. The API surfaces concurrency and credit state in response headers, and returns 429 when concurrency, free quota, or domain throttling is hit.

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

It captures 7 rate-limit definitions, measuring concurrent_requests and varies.

Limit state is signalled in the accountConcurrentUsage, accountRemainingConcurrentUsage, projectConcurrentUsage, and projectRemainingConcurrentUsage 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 4 backoff/retry policies defined and response codes documented for throttled and quotaExceeded.

Tagged areas include Web Scraping, Data Extraction, and Rate Limiting.

7 Limits Exhausted: HTTP 429 Quota: 429 accountConcurrentUsageaccountRemainingConcurrentUsageprojectConcurrentUsageprojectRemainingConcurrentUsage
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

Free concurrency account
concurrent_requests
5
Applies to Free tier.
Discovery concurrency account
concurrent_requests
5
Applies to Discovery ($30/mo) tier.
Pro concurrency account
concurrent_requests
20
Applies to Pro ($100/mo) tier.
Startup concurrency account
concurrent_requests
50
Applies to Startup ($250/mo) tier.
Enterprise concurrency account
concurrent_requests
100
Applies to Enterprise ($500/mo) tier.
Custom concurrency account
concurrent_requests
negotiated
Custom plans negotiate concurrency above 100.
Per-domain throttling account/domain
varies
see Scrapfly throttling rules
Scrapfly may throttle a specific destination domain to protect target sites; surfaced as 429.

Policies

Concurrency-based throttling
Subscription tier sets the maximum simultaneously open scrape requests. Excess requests are rejected with 429 rather than queued.
Credit pool overflow
Free and Discovery plans hard-cap at the monthly credit quota. Pro and higher plans auto-bill overflow credits at tier-specific block rates ($1.20–$5.00 per 10,000 credits).
Backoff
On 429 responses clients should back off and retry, monitoring X-Scrapfly-Account-Remaining-Concurrent-Usage to gauge headroom.
Project-scoped limits
Concurrency can be sub-divided across Scrapfly Projects; project-level usage is reported via X-Scrapfly-Project-Concurrent-Usage.

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