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: Affinda
providerId: affinda
created: '2026-05-25'
modified: '2026-05-25'
reconciled: true
tags:
  - IDP
  - Rate Limiting
  - Queues
description: Reconciled rate limits for the Affinda v3 Document Processing API. Affinda enforces a
  high-priority submission queue capped at 20 documents per minute and an unlimited low-priority queue
  selected via the `lowPriority` flag. File-size and page caps are also enforced per upload.
sources:
  - https://docs.affinda.com/reference/getting-started
  - https://docs.affinda.com/skill.md
headers:
  retryAfter: retry-after
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
  payloadTooLarge: 413
algorithm: fixed-window
queues:
  - name: high-priority
    description: Default submission queue. Throttled to 20 documents per minute per organization.
    limit: 20
    timeFrame: minute
  - name: low-priority
    description: Submit with `lowPriority - true`. No submission rate cap. Documents are processed when
      capacity is available and may queue longer.
    limit: -1
    timeFrame: minute
limits:
  - surface: Document upload (default queue)
    documentsPerMinute: 20
    throttledStatus: 429
  - surface: Document upload (low priority)
    documentsPerMinute: -1
    throttledStatus: n/a
constraints:
  - name: maxFileSize
    value: 20MB
    description: Default file size limit for document uploads.
  - name: maxFileSizeResume
    value: 5MB
    description: File size limit specifically for resume uploads.
  - name: maxPages
    value: 20
    description: Default page cap per document.
  - name: maxApiKeys
    value: 3
    description: Per-user limit on simultaneously active API keys.
supportedFormats:
  - PDF
  - DOC
  - DOCX
  - XLSX
  - ODT
  - RTF
  - TXT
  - HTML
  - PNG
  - JPG
  - JPEG
  - TIFF