specification: API Commons Rate Limits
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/RateLimits
provider: A-Mark Precious Metals
providerId: a-mark-precious-metals
created: '2026-05-04'
generated: '2026-08-29'
method: searched
source: >-
  Searched amark.com and gold.com for published limits and inspected anonymous response
  headers from www.amark.com, portal.amark.com and trading.amark.com on 2026-08-29.
modified: '2026-08-29'
reconciled: true
tags:
  - Precious Metals
  - Trading
  - Wholesale
  - Rate Limiting
description: >-
  A-Mark publishes no rate limits and returns no rate-limit headers on any anonymous
  response. This artifact previously carried a 2026-05-04 bulk-sweep placeholder asserting
  a 429 throttle response and a "Dealer agreement throttling" policy; neither was observed
  or documented, so both have been removed in favour of a measured zero.
notes: >-
  limit_count is 0 by measurement. No X-RateLimit-*, RateLimit- (RFC 9239 draft), or
  Retry-After header appeared on any probed response, and no throttling status code was
  observed. Quote and order pacing on the wholesale desk is governed by the bilateral
  dealer agreement, which A-Mark does not publish — that is a real constraint, but it is
  not a documented API rate limit and is no longer recorded as one.
limit_count: 0
limits: []
response_headers: []
exhaustion_status_code: null
sources:
  - url: https://www.amark.com/services/
    http_status: 200
    note: no limits documented
  - url: https://portal.amark.com/.well-known/openid-configuration
    http_status: 200
    note: no rate-limit headers on the response
  - url: https://trading.amark.com/v1/openapi.json
    http_status: 404
    note: >-
      anonymous ASP.NET Web API response carried no rate-limit headers
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com