API limitations

The requests made to Management API count towards the overall API calls limit set in the Fair Use Policy or your subscription plan. There is no limit on the total number of API calls you can make. Rate limits specify the number of requests you or your application can make to the Management API within a specific time window. There are two separate time windows, second and minute, allowing a different number of requests each. By default, the Management API enforces the following rate limits:

10 requests per second
400 requests per minute

When you reach the limit of a specific time window, the API will reject the request and respond with the 429 HTTP error

The error response will include the Retry-After header

that tells you how many seconds you need to wait before attempting further requests. Each failed request is perfectly safe to retry. If you begin to receive 429 HTTP errors

, reduce the frequency of your requests.

API limitations

API requests limit

Rate limiting

CDN-level protection