Shopify · Rate Limits

Shopify Rate Limits

Shopify rate-limits by CALCULATED QUERY COST, not by request count. Every field in the GraphQL schema carries an integer cost; an app's bucket must hold the requested cost before a query runs and is refunded the difference between requested and actual cost afterwards. The Storefront API has no fixed request-per-minute limit at all — it throttles automated traffic instead, and grants higher limits to bots that identify themselves with Web Bot Auth.

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

It captures 7 rate-limit definitions, measuring cost_points and requests.

The profile also includes 4 backoff/retry policies defined and response codes documented for throttled, storefrontCheckoutThrottled, shopLocked, securityRejection, and note.

Tagged areas include Rate Limiting and Commerce.

7 Limits Throttle: 429
Rate LimitingCommerce

Limits

GraphQL Admin API (Standard) app/store
cost_points · second
100
GraphQL Admin API (Advanced Shopify) app/store
cost_points · second
200
GraphQL Admin API (Shopify Plus) app/store
cost_points · second
1000
GraphQL Admin API (Commerce Components / enterprise) app/store
cost_points · second
2000
Customer Account API app/store
cost_points · second
100
Payments Apps API app/store
cost_points · second
27300
Storefront API none
requests

Policies

Per-app per-shop
Limits scope to the (app_id, shop_id) tuple, not your account.
Bulk operations
Bulk operations carry neither the single-query max cost nor the standard rate limits. This is the documented escape hatch for large exports.
Backoff
Recommended backoff after a throttle is one second; honor Retry-After where present.
Temporary reductions
Shopify reserves the right to temporarily reduce API rate limits to protect platform stability. Apps are expected to handle limits gracefully rather than assume the published number.

Sources

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