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Tableau Rate Limits

Tableau Cloud applies per-site rate limits to specific REST API job-and-content operations. Limits are documented operationally as "calls per hour" / "calls per 24 hours" / "calls per minute" against a Tableau Cloud site rather than as raw requests-per-second; an additional VizQL Data Service allowance scales with Creator licenses on the site. Tableau Server installations do not enforce these per-site caps directly — they are governed by the underlying server capacity.

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

It captures 6 rate-limit definitions, measuring requests_per_hour, requests_per_day, and requests_per_minute.

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

Tagged areas include Analytics, Business Intelligence, Dashboards, Data Visualization, and Rate Limiting.

6 Limits Throttle: 429
AnalyticsBusiness IntelligenceDashboardsData VisualizationRate Limiting

Limits

Extract Refresh Initiation site
requests_per_hour · hour
60
Maximum REST API calls per Tableau Cloud site per one-hour period for initiating extract refreshes via REST API or related tooling.
Job Status / Cancel Queries site
requests_per_day · day
20000
Maximum REST API calls per Tableau Cloud site per 24-hour period for querying job status or cancelling jobs.
Publish / Update Content site
requests_per_hour · hour
600
600 calls per hour (14,400 per 24-hour period) per site for publishing or updating workbooks and data sources.
Get Users on Site site
requests_per_minute · minute
3000
Remove User from Site site
requests_per_minute · minute
1600
VizQL Data Service Allowance site
requests_per_hour · hour
100
An additional 100 calls per hour, per Creator license, on top of the standard caps — VizQL Data Service capacity scales with the number of Creators on the site.

Policies

429 with Retry Guidance
Exceeding a documented site cap returns HTTP 429 with retry guidance from the service. Clients should respect any retry signal and back off rather than retrying immediately.
Tableau Server Differentiation
The published per-site numbers apply to Tableau Cloud. Self-hosted Tableau Server capacity is governed by underlying compute / VizQL session capacity rather than these site-level call ceilings.
Per-Site Scope
Limits are scoped to a Tableau Cloud site, so multiple integrations sharing a site share the same hourly / daily ceiling.

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