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: APITemplate.io
providerId: apitemplate
created: '2026-05-08'
# Provenance stamped 2026-08-11: this artifact was written by the API Evangelist
# bulk sweep dated 2026-05-08, not harvested from the provider. See roadmap#35.
method: generated
modified: '2026-05-08'
reconciled: false
tags:
- Document Generation
- PDF
- Images
- Templates
- API
- Rate Limiting
- Quotas
- Throttling
description: >-
  APITemplate.io's primary throttle is the per-plan monthly output bundle
  (PDFs and/or images). Per-second numeric API ceilings are not enumerated in
  public docs but the platform advertises a 99.99% uptime target with ~2-second
  typical render time. 429 is returned on excess.
notes: >-
  Reconciled flagged false until per-second numeric ceilings are documented
  publicly. Async generation with webhooks is the recommended pattern for
  burst workloads.
sources:
- https://apitemplate.io/docs/
- https://apitemplate.io/pricing/
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
- name: Per-plan monthly outputs
  scope: account
  metric: outputs/month
  limit: see plan
  notes: Free 50; PDF Basic 3,000; PDF Standard 12,000; PDF Enterprise 25,000; combined plans 1,500/9,000/20,000.
- name: REST API requests
  scope: api_token
  metric: requests
  limit: see APITemplate docs
  notes: 429 on excess; numeric per-second ceiling not publicly documented.
- name: Templates per plan
  scope: account
  metric: templates
  limit: 3 / 20 / 180 / unlimited
  notes: Tier-bounded.
policies:
- name: Backoff Strategy
  description: Honor 429; use async generation + webhooks for burst workloads.
- name: Regional endpoints
  description: Use US, EU, Singapore or Australia endpoints to minimise latency.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com