Vessel · Rate Limits

Vessel Rate Limits

Vessel publishes no numeric rate limits and returns no rate-limit response headers. Every pricing tier advertises "Unlimited API calls", and grepping all 20 published OpenAPI definitions on 2026-08-13 found no X-RateLimit-*, RateLimit-* or Retry-After header declared on any response. The binding constraint is the END CUSTOMER's downstream SaaS quota, which is spent on every uncached read: Vessel forwards unified calls straight through to the connected system. Vessel's own documented remedy is the synced-cache, which it states carries no read rate limits because reads hit a Vessel-hosted database instead of the customer's tenant. Downstream 429s are normalized into the {message, errorCode, metadata} error envelope with the original status and errors under metadata, rather than surfaced as headers.

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

It captures 5 rate-limit definitions, measuring requests, varies, and connections.

The profile also includes 2 backoff/retry policies defined and response codes documented for throttled and note.

Tagged areas include Rate Limiting, Unified API, and Integrations.

5 Limits Throttle: 429
Rate LimitingUnified APIIntegrations

Limits

Vessel-side request rate account
requests
Downstream provider limits connection
varies
Synced-cache reads connection
requests
Development connections api-key
connections
5
Launch-tier connections account
connections
20

Policies

Downstream pass-through
Errors and rate-limit signals from the underlying SaaS API are surfaced through Vessel's response; respect the provider's documented limits.
Backoff
On 429 responses, implement exponential backoff with jitter and honor any Retry-After header.

Sources

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curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/rate-limits?limit=25"

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