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: AxleHire (Jitsu)
providerId: axlehire
generated: '2026-08-06'
method: searched
created: '2026-08-06'
modified: '2026-08-06'
tags:
- Rate Limiting
- Logistics
- Last Mile Delivery
description: >-
  Jitsu (formerly AxleHire) publishes one account-wide rate limit for the v3
  REST API — 10 requests per second with a short burst allowance — enforced
  identically in staging and production. Exceeding it returns HTTP 429. No
  rate-limit response headers are published, so a client cannot see its
  remaining budget; the documented remedy is client-side exponential backoff.
sources:
- https://docs.gojitsu.com/#/docs/RetryAndErrors.md
- https://docs.gojitsu.com/#/docs/FAQs.md
- https://docs.gojitsu.com/#/docs/Testing.md
headers:
  limit: null
  remaining: null
  reset: null
  retryAfter: null
  requestId: null
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
- name: All API requests
  scope: account
  metric: requests_per_second
  limit: 10
  timeFrame: second
  environments: [production, staging]
  burst: short burst allowance (magnitude not published)
policies:
- name: Exponential backoff
  description: >-
    On 429, retry with exponential backoff — 1s, 2s, 4s, 8s, capped at 60s —
    with ±10–20% random jitter to avoid thundering-herd retries.
- name: Retry classes
  description: >-
    Retry 429, 500, 502 and 503 with backoff. Do not retry 400, 401, 403, 404,
    405, 406, 412 or 422 — fix the request instead.
- name: Load testing
  description: >-
    Staging enforces the same 10 QPS as production. Higher limits for load
    testing must be arranged with the Jitsu team in advance.
gaps:
- >-
  No RateLimit-Limit / RateLimit-Remaining / RateLimit-Reset and no Retry-After
  header on the 429. A client has no way to pace itself and can only react after
  it has already been throttled.
- No per-plan or per-endpoint limits published; one flat number for every account.