Wistia · Rate Limits

Wistia Rate Limits

Wistia publishes a single account-wide request ceiling plus a much tighter per-endpoint ceiling on bulk media moves, and several documented per-request batch caps. On exhaustion the API returns 429 with a Retry-After header. Wistia does NOT publish standing quota headers — there is no X-RateLimit-* or RFC 9331 RateLimit-* family on responses — so an agent cannot see how much budget it has left; it can only react to the 429. That was confirmed on a live 401 from api.wistia.com/v1/medias.json, whose headers carry x-request-id and x-runtime but no rate-limit fields.

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

It captures 4 rate-limit definitions.

Tagged areas include Video Hosting, Video Marketing, Video Analytics, Lead Generation, and Webinars.

4 Limits
Transcribed from the provider's documentation on 2026-08-14 — docs.wistia.com/docs/making-api-requests#rate-limit, docs....
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Video HostingVideo MarketingVideo AnalyticsLead GenerationWebinarsB2B MarketingVideo CaptionsLocalizationMCPMedia Management

Limits

account request ceiling per-account
· per 1 minute
600/1 minute
bulk media move per-endpoint
PUT /medias/move
· per 5 minutes
10/5 minutes
Wistia's own reference calls this out explicitly — "max 10 requests in 5 minutes. Note: this is a different rate limit than applies to the rest of the api!" A separate per-request cap of 100 media applies to the same call.
bulk archive / restore batch size per-request
PUT /medias/archive, PUT /medias/restore
100
A payload cap rather than a rate; both operations process asynchronously and return a background_job_status object.
list pagination page size per-request
100
`per_page` maximum is 100, which is also the default. Not a throttle, but it is the ceiling that determines how many requests a full crawl costs against the 600/min budget.

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

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