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: Apicbase
providerId: apicbase
created: '2026-06-21'
modified: '2026-06-21'
reconciled: false
tags:
- Food and Beverage
- Restaurant
- Back of House
- Inventory
- Procurement
- Recipes
- Rate Limiting
- Quotas
- Throttling
description: >-
  The Apicbase REST API is a subscription-included interface secured with
  OAuth 2.0 bearer tokens. The public developer documentation does not publish
  specific numeric request rate limits, quotas, or throttling thresholds.
  List endpoints are paginated (via a page parameter), which bounds response
  size. Specific per-account or per-endpoint rate-limit values are not
  reconciled in this artifact.
notes: >-
  Confirm any throttling behavior, retry guidance, and 429 handling directly
  with Apicbase or in the developer portal on reconciliation. Access tokens
  expire after 7 days and must be refreshed.
sources:
- https://developers.apicbase.com/docs/authentication
- https://developers.apicbase.com/reference/introduction
- https://developers.apicbase.com/docs/welcome
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
- name: Request Rate
  scope: account
  metric: requests
  limit: see provider documentation
  notes: No public numeric request rate limit is documented; verify on reconciliation.
- name: Pagination
  scope: endpoint
  metric: records_per_page
  limit: see provider documentation
  notes: List endpoints are paginated via the page query parameter.
- name: Access Token Lifetime
  scope: token
  metric: seconds
  limit: 604800
  notes: OAuth 2.0 access tokens expire after 7 days; refresh tokens issue new access tokens.
policies:
- name: OAuth 2.0 Bearer Authentication
  description: All requests must use HTTPS and present a valid bearer access token in the Authorization header.
- name: Backoff Strategy
  description: Clients should implement exponential backoff with jitter and honor any Retry-After header on 429 responses.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com