Visa Acceptance · Rate Limits
Visa Acceptance Rate Limits
Visa Acceptance Solutions (Cybersource) does not publish a public rate-limit table for its REST APIs. Throughput is governed by the merchant's processor agreement and per-region capacity; sustained TPS for production traffic is provisioned through Visa Acceptance support.
Visa Acceptance Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for Visa Acceptance on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Rate Limits specification.
It captures 2 rate-limit definitions, measuring requests_per_second and varies.
The profile also includes 2 backoff/retry policies defined and response codes documented for throttled.
Tagged areas include Rate Limiting, Payments, Cybersource, and Card Acceptance.
2 Limits
Throttle: 429
Rate LimitingPaymentsCybersourceCard Acceptance
Limits
Production TPS merchant
provisioned per merchant agreement; not publicly published
Sandbox / test environment merchant
capped for evaluation; contact support for raise requests
Policies
Provisioned throughput
Sustained transaction throughput is allocated per merchant in coordination with Visa Acceptance's onboarding and support teams; bursts above provisioned TPS may be throttled.
Backoff
On 429 / 503 responses, clients should implement exponential backoff with jitter and retry idempotent operations using the client-reference / merchant-defined identifier to avoid duplicate authorizations.