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: Akute Health
providerId: akute
created: '2026-06-21'
modified: '2026-06-21'
reconciled: false
tags:
- Healthcare
- EHR
- EMR
- FHIR
- Digital Health
- Telehealth
- Rate Limiting
- Quotas
- Throttling
description: >-
  The Akute Health API applies a per-tenant concurrency limit on API requests.
  Lab ordering documentation states a limit of 5 concurrent API requests per
  client. Other per-endpoint or per-minute quotas are not publicly documented
  and are not reconciled in this artifact; confirm current limits with Akute.
notes: >-
  Only the documented 5-concurrent-request limit (from the lab ordering guide)
  is captured here. Verify additional throttling, burst, and per-endpoint
  limits with Akute support on reconciliation.
sources:
- https://help.akutehealth.com/article/196-ordering-labs-via-api
- https://developer.akutehealth.com/
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
- name: Concurrent Requests
  scope: account
  metric: concurrent_requests
  limit: 5
  notes: Documented for the lab ordering API; per-tenant concurrent API requests.
- name: Per-Endpoint Quotas
  scope: account
  metric: requests
  limit: see provider documentation
  notes: Additional per-endpoint or per-minute limits are not publicly documented.
policies:
- name: Concurrency Cap
  description: Limit in-flight requests to the documented concurrency ceiling to avoid throttling.
- name: Backoff Strategy
  description: Clients should implement exponential backoff with jitter and honor Retry-After on 429 responses.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com