ThingSpeak · Rate Limits

Thingspeak Rate Limits

ThingSpeak rate-limit policies reconciled from MathWorks documentation and license terms.

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

It captures 8 rate-limit definitions, measuring seconds-between-updates, messages, messages-per-request, seconds, and entries-per-request.

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.

Tagged areas include IoT, MQTT, and REST.

8 Limits
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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IoTMQTTREST

Limits

Free Plan Channel Update Interval channel
seconds-between-updates · per-write
Paid Plan Channel Update Interval channel
seconds-between-updates · per-write
Free Plan Annual Message Cap account
messages · year
Paid Annual Message Cap (per unit) account
messages · year
Bulk Update Batch (Free) request
messages-per-request · per-request
Bulk Update Batch (Paid) request
messages-per-request · per-request
MQTT Connection Inactivity Timeout connection
seconds · inactivity
Feed Read Maximum Results request
entries-per-request · per-request

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