Stripe · Rate Limits
Stripe Rate Limits
Stripe API rate limits enforced per-account in live and test modes separately. Limits are not published per-tier; raise via support for high-volume needs.
Stripe Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for Stripe on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Rate Limits specification.
It captures 6 rate-limit definitions, measuring requests_per_second.
The profile also includes 3 backoff/retry policies defined and response codes documented for throttled and lockTimeout.
Tagged areas include Rate Limiting and Payments.
6 Limits
Throttle: 429
Rate LimitingPayments
Limits
Read requests (live mode) account
100
Write requests (live mode) account
100
Read requests (test mode) account
25
Write requests (test mode) account
25
Search API account
20
Files API uploads account
20
Policies
Lock contention
Concurrent writes to the same object can return 429 with a 'lock_timeout' error; retry with backoff.
Idempotency
Use Idempotency-Key header for safe retries on POST/DELETE.
Live vs test
Test mode has lower limits; do not load-test in test mode.