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Ubuntu Rate Limits

Canonical does not publish per-second numeric rate limits for the Ubuntu Pro Contracts API, Livepatch API, or related services on its public terms / pricing pages. Operational throttling exists at the CDN / edge but is not documented as a fixed quota for end users.

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

It captures 1 rate-limit definition, measuring varies.

The profile also includes 2 backoff/retry policies defined.

Tagged areas include Linux, Package Management, Open Source, and Rate Limiting.

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Limits

Ubuntu Pro / Livepatch Service account
varies
see Canonical service docs
Specific request-rate ceilings are not published; access is gated by machine token / contract token rather than a public per-second quota.

Policies

Token-Scoped Access
Ubuntu Pro Contracts and Livepatch APIs are accessed via per-machine tokens issued at attach time; throttling, when it occurs, is per-token at the edge.
Backoff
Apply exponential backoff with jitter on transient errors; no specific Retry-After timing is documented publicly.

Sources