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: Centrica
providerId: centrica
generated: '2026-07-27'
method: searched
created: '2026-07-27'
modified: '2026-07-27'
tags:
- Rate Limiting
- Field Service
- Partner
description: >-
  The only rate limits Centrica publishes anywhere are carried in the product descriptions
  of the two Azure API Management products on the Centrica FieldOps developer portal
  (DEVELOPMENT environment): the Starter product states 5 calls/minute up to a maximum of
  100 calls/week, and the Unlimited product states unlimited access subject to administrator
  approval. Both strings were read verbatim from Centrica's own APIM management API.
  Centrica publishes no rate-limit documentation page, no header contract and no documented
  throttle response — the OpenAPI for the Identity API declares only a 200 response, so the
  throttling status code and any RateLimit-* / Retry-After headers are undocumented and are
  deliberately left null here rather than assumed from Azure APIM platform defaults.
sources:
- https://api-developer.dev.fieldops.centrica.com/products
- https://api-management.dev.fieldops.centrica.com/subscriptions/000/resourceGroups/000/providers/Microsoft.ApiManagement/service/fieldopsdev001/products?api-version=2022-04-01-preview
headers:
  requestId: null
  limit: null
  remaining: null
  reset: null
  retryAfter: null
  note: No rate-limit or request-id header contract is documented by Centrica.
responseCodes:
  throttled: null
  note: >-
    Not documented. The harvested OpenAPI declares no 4xx/5xx responses at all, so no
    throttle status code can be asserted without inventing Azure APIM platform behaviour.
limits:
- name: Starter product — requests per minute
  scope: subscription
  plan: centrica-fieldops-starter
  metric: requests_per_minute
  limit: 5
  timeFrame: minute
  source: Azure APIM product description, verbatim
- name: Starter product — requests per week
  scope: subscription
  plan: centrica-fieldops-starter
  metric: requests_per_week
  limit: 100
  timeFrame: week
  source: Azure APIM product description, verbatim
- name: Unlimited product
  scope: subscription
  plan: centrica-fieldops-unlimited
  metric: requests
  limit: -1
  timeFrame: usage
  source: Azure APIM product description, verbatim — administrator approval required