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: Accelevents
providerId: accelevents
created: '2026-07-05'
modified: '2026-07-05'
reconciled: false
tags:
- Event Management
- Ticketing
- Events
- Rate Limiting
- Quotas
description: >-
  Accelevents does not publish numeric rate limits for the Open API in its public
  developer documentation. Access is governed primarily by subscription tier
  (API and webhook access is bundled from the Business plan and above) rather
  than by a documented per-minute request cap. List endpoints are paginated with
  page and size parameters (attendees default size 100, orders default size 10),
  which is the main throughput control exposed to callers. Clients should
  paginate, cache event and order data, and implement retry-with-backoff.
notes: >-
  No fixed per-account or per-endpoint request-rate limit is documented as of the
  review date. Numeric limits, if any, would be enforced server-side; confirm
  with Accelevents support or the Slack community. The 429 response code below is
  the conventional throttling signal and is assumed, not confirmed.
sources:
- https://developer.accelevents.com/docs/accelevents-api-documentation
- https://developer.accelevents.com/reference/get-all-attendees
- https://developer.accelevents.com/reference/get-ticketing-orders
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
- name: Open API Requests
  scope: account
  metric: requests
  limit: not published
  notes: No fixed numeric request-rate limit is documented for the Open API.
- name: Attendee Listing Page Size
  scope: request
  metric: records
  limit: configurable via size (default 100)
  notes: The allAttendees endpoint returns up to size records per page.
- name: Order Listing Page Size
  scope: request
  metric: records
  limit: configurable via size (default 10)
  notes: The orders endpoint returns up to size records per page.
- name: API Access Eligibility
  scope: account
  metric: subscription
  limit: Business tier and above
  notes: API and webhook access is bundled into paid tiers rather than metered per call.
policies:
- name: Pagination
  description: List endpoints use zero-indexed page and size query parameters; iterate pages to retrieve full result sets.
- name: Incremental Sync
  description: The orders endpoint accepts searchTimeStamp to fetch records created or updated after a given time, enabling incremental polling instead of full re-pulls.
- name: Backoff Strategy
  description: Clients should implement exponential backoff with jitter and honor Retry-After on any 429 responses.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com