Socket · Rate Limits
Socket Dev Rate Limits
Rate limits and quota model for the Socket API. Socket meters API usage via a quota system exposed at GET /quota; individual endpoint rates are not separately published. Quotas vary by plan and contract; refer to /quota for the live remaining balance.
Socket Dev Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for Socket on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Rate Limits specification.
It captures 3 rate-limit definitions, across the Free, Team, and Enterprise tiers.
The profile also includes response codes documented for throttled and quotaExceeded.
Tagged areas include Rate Limiting, Quotas, and Supply Chain Security.
3 Limits
Throttle: 429
Quota: 402
Rate LimitingQuotasSupply Chain Security
Limits
public-repo API usage
Fair-use quota; sufficient for typical open-source maintainers and CI integrations on public repositories.
per-organization
Quota sized to development-team scanning workloads; contact Socket for headroom on large monorepos.
per-contract
Custom quota negotiated as part of the contract; supports very large scan volumes, dedicated Firewall throughput, and high-frequency Threat Feed polling.
Sources
- https://docs.socket.dev/reference/getquota
- https://docs.socket.dev/reference/authentication-types
- https://github.com/SocketDev/socket-sdk-js
Work with this as data
Every rate limit here is available over the APIs.io API and to AI agents over MCP.