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: Bytescale
providerId: bytescale
created: '2026-06-20'
modified: '2026-06-20'
reconciled: false
tags:
- File Upload
- Storage
- Image Processing
- CDN
- Media
- Rate Limiting
- Quotas
- Throttling
description: >-
  Bytescale governs usage primarily through monthly plan quotas - storage,
  download bandwidth, upload requests, and processing (CPU hours) - rather than
  fixed per-second request rates. There are no daily limits; restrictions are
  monthly quotas only. Exceeding a quota results in overage billing (on
  pay-as-you-go) or throttling/blocking depending on account configuration.
  Per-second request throttles and max upload sizes apply per plan. Specific
  per-endpoint request-rate values are not reconciled in this artifact.
notes: >-
  Verify quota-exceeded behavior and any per-request throttles in the Bytescale
  pricing page and support docs on reconciliation; max upload size and bundled
  quotas vary by plan (Basic / Plus / Advanced / Enterprise).
sources:
- https://www.bytescale.com/pricing
- https://support.bytescale.com/article/10-what-happens-if-i-exceed-the-limits
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
- name: Storage Quota
  scope: account
  metric: gigabytes
  limit: per plan (Basic 10 GB / Plus 50 GB / Advanced 300 GB)
  notes: Total storage used at any point in time; overage billed per GB.
- name: Download Bandwidth Quota
  scope: account
  metric: gigabytes
  limit: per plan (Basic 10 GB / Plus 50 GB / Advanced 300 GB)
  notes: Monthly egress data transfer; overage billed per GB.
- name: Upload Requests Quota
  scope: account
  metric: requests
  limit: per plan (Basic 20,000 / Plus 100,000 / Advanced 500,000)
  notes: Monthly count of files created or overwritten; overage billed per upload.
- name: Processing Quota (CPU Hours)
  scope: account
  metric: cpu_hours
  limit: per plan (Basic 1x / Plus 5x / Advanced 30x)
  notes: Monthly transformation processing time; overage billed per CPU hour.
- name: Max Upload Size
  scope: request
  metric: bytes
  limit: per plan (Basic 500 MB / Plus 5 GB / Advanced 100 GB)
  notes: Maximum size of a single uploaded file.
policies:
- name: Monthly Quotas Only
  description: No daily limits apply; all restrictions are enforced as monthly quotas.
- name: Overage Billing
  description: On pay-as-you-go, usage beyond bundled quotas is billed per GB / per CPU hour / per upload rather than hard-blocked.
- 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