ShipBob · Rate Limits

Shipbob Rate Limits

ShipBob enforces a sliding-window rate limit of 150 requests per minute, totalled per user, per application across all ShipBob Developer API endpoints. Exceeding the limit returns HTTP 429 with `x-retry-after` (seconds to wait) and `x-remaining-calls` headers.

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

It captures 1 rate-limit definition, measuring requests.

Limit state is signalled in the x-retry-after and x-remaining-calls 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 3 backoff/retry policies defined and response codes documented for throttled.

Tagged areas include Logistics, Fulfillment, E-Commerce, 3PL, and Warehousing.

1 Limits Exhausted: HTTP 429 x-retry-afterx-remaining-calls
Method: generated, dated 2026-05-25.
Written by API Evangelist on 2026-05-25 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

Global Sliding Window user + application
requests · per 60s
150/60s
Counted across all ShipBob Developer API endpoints (channels, orders, products, inventory, receiving, returns, webhooks, locations, billing, simulations).

Policies

Backoff Strategy
Clients should honor the `x-retry-after` header on 429 responses and implement exponential backoff with jitter for unhandled throttling cases.
Pre-Emptive Throttling
Inspect `x-remaining-calls` in responses and slow down before the window is exhausted.
Per-Application Isolation
Spread workload across multiple OAuth applications when integrating multiple high-volume use cases to avoid contention against a single 150/min budget.

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