Simplecast · Rate Limits

Simplecast Rate Limits

Simplecast does not publish fixed numeric rate limits for its REST API in the public documentation. The API is bearer-token authenticated and read-oriented. List endpoints are paginated with limit and offset query parameters rather than exposed via a documented per-minute request budget. Clients should treat the API as rate-limited, honor HTTP 429 responses with backoff, and page responses with reasonable limit values.

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

It captures 3 rate-limit definitions, measuring requests, objects, and downloads.

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

Tagged areas include Podcasting, Podcast Analytics, Rate Limiting, and Quotas.

3 Limits Throttle: 429
PodcastingPodcast AnalyticsRate LimitingQuotas

Limits

API Requests account
requests
not published
No fixed numeric request-rate limit is documented for the Simplecast API.
List Page Size request
objects
configurable via limit parameter
List endpoints accept limit and offset query parameters to page results.
Monthly Downloads account
downloads
per plan
Plan tiers cap monthly downloads (e.g. Basic ~20k, Essential ~50k); this is a product allowance, not an API request limit.

Policies

Pagination
Use limit and offset query parameters on list endpoints to page through large collections.
Backoff Strategy
On HTTP 429 responses, implement exponential backoff with jitter and honor any Retry-After header before retrying.
Self-Describing Responses
Each response returns the actions available to the authenticated user; follow returned links rather than hard-coding paths.

Sources