Toast · Rate Limits

Toast Rate Limits

Toast publishes its API rate limits openly in the developer guide, and returns runtime rate-limit signal on every response via three X-Toast-RateLimit-* headers. Limits are enforced per restaurant location when the Toast-Restaurant-External-ID header is present, and per source IP address when it is absent (for example, the partners API and authentication token requests, which carry no restaurant context). Requests over a limit are rejected with HTTP 429. This supersedes the 2026-05-04 bulk-sweep note that recorded Toast limits as "not publicly published" - they are published, on the rate limiting page of the developer guide.

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

It captures 5 rate-limit definitions.

Limit state is signalled in the X-Toast-RateLimit-By, X-Toast-RateLimit-Remaining, and X-Toast-RateLimit-Reset response headers.

The profile also includes 4 backoff/retry policies defined.

Tagged areas include Food Service, Point of Sale, Restaurants, Hospitality, and Rate Limiting.

5 Limits X-Toast-RateLimit-ByX-Toast-RateLimit-RemainingX-Toast-RateLimit-Reset
Transcribed from the provider's documentation on 2026-08-27 — doc.toasttab.com/doc/devguide/apiRateLimiting.html.
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Food ServicePoint of SaleRestaurantsHospitalityRate Limiting

Limits

Global rate limit per-client (all Toast APIs collectively)
· per 1 second
20/1 second
20 requests per second across every Toast API combined.
Global rate limit (long window) per-client (all Toast APIs collectively)
· per 15 minutes
10000/15 minutes
Default API rate limit per-api per-client
· per 1 second
20/1 second
20 rps / 10,000 per 15 minutes against an individual Toast API. Currently identical to the global limit; Toast states the two may diverge in future.
Menus API GET /menus endpoint limit per-endpoint per-client per-location
GET /menus/v2/menus
· per 1 second
1/1 second
One request per second per restaurant location. Requests for one restaurant do not consume another restaurant's allowance.
Orders API GET /ordersBulk endpoint limit per-endpoint per-client per-location
GET /orders/v2/ordersBulk
· per 1 second
5/1 second
Historical pulls using startDate/endDate must not span more than one month per request and calls should be spaced 5-10 seconds apart. Toast support recommends the orders updated webhook instead of polling /ordersBulk.

Policies

Per-restaurant vs per-IP enforcement
When Toast-Restaurant-External-ID is present on the request, the limit is applied per restaurant location, so exhausting Restaurant A's allowance does not block requests for Restaurant B. When the header is absent - the partners API and authentication token requests - the limit is applied per source IP address.
Account rate limits
An API account integrating with many restaurant locations may be given an additional account-specific limit that tracks total requests across all locations. Toast states it contacts the integration provider directly before applying one; the value is not published.
Authentication token reuse
Authentication tokens are typically valid for one day; the token response carries expires_in. Toast asks clients to request no more than one or two tokens per day and to reuse a token for at least 30 minutes. The authentication API enforces the global limit by IP address on token requests.
Custom per-API limits
Toast states there are currently no custom rate limits for specific APIs beyond the endpoint limits listed above.

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