Sketchfab · Rate Limits

Sketchfab Rate Limits

Sketchfab does not publish a single canonical rate-limit table in its developer portal. In practice the Data API enforces conservative per-token request rates appropriate to a publishing platform, and download URLs are short-lived signed links. The Developer Guidelines also impose qualitative rules around aggressive scraping and re-distribution. This artifact captures the observed envelope and the headers returned by the platform.

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

It captures 5 rate-limit definitions, across the Personal API token / OAuth (default), Anonymous (public read), Enterprise contract, and Any tiers.

Limit state is signalled in the limit, remaining, reset, and retryAfter 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, unauthorized, and forbidden.

Tagged areas include 3D and Rate Limiting.

5 Limits Exhausted: HTTP 429 limitremainingresetretryAfter
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

Conservative default. Authenticated calls receive higher headroom than anonymous ones.
Public model search and detail endpoints. Aggressive crawling is blocked.
Custom quotas negotiated with Sketchfab.
Download URLs are short-lived signed links; rapid replays are throttled.
Cached aggressively at the CDN edge.

Policies

Developer Guidelines
Sketchfab's Developer Guidelines forbid bulk re-distribution and excessive crawling and reserve the right to revoke tokens that violate these rules.
Signed download URLs
Download API responses contain signed URLs that expire within minutes; callers must download before expiry.
License compliance
Downloaders must respect the Creative Commons / Standard license attached to each model.

Sources

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