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: Colossyan
providerId: colossyan
created: '2026-06-21'
modified: '2026-06-21'
reconciled: false
tags:
- AI
- Video Generation
- Avatars
- Text to Video
- Learning and Development
- Rate Limiting
- Quotas
- Throttling
description: >-
  Colossyan does not publish explicit per-endpoint request rate limits in its
  public API documentation. In practice usage is constrained by subscription
  entitlements - monthly video minutes, number of editor seats, Instant
  avatars, and (for the API) the Business/Enterprise plan requirement plus any
  API minute add-on. Video generation is asynchronous (jobs), which naturally
  bounds concurrent rendering. Specific numeric request limits are not
  documented and are not reconciled in this artifact.
notes: >-
  No documented RPM/RPS values were found on docs.colossyan.com as of the
  creation date. The effective constraints are plan-based minute and seat
  quotas. Confirm any per-account or per-key request limits with Colossyan
  during reconciliation.
sources:
- https://docs.colossyan.com/
- https://www.colossyan.com/api
- https://www.colossyan.com/pricing
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
- name: Monthly Video Minutes
  scope: account
  metric: minutes
  limit: plan-based
  notes: Bounded by the subscription tier's monthly minute allotment (NEO 1 / NEO 2).
- name: API Access Eligibility
  scope: account
  metric: entitlement
  limit: Business or Enterprise plan required
  notes: API requests are only available on qualifying plans (and/or via an API minute add-on).
- name: Request Rate Limit
  scope: account
  metric: requests
  limit: see provider documentation
  notes: No explicit per-minute/per-second request rate limit is published.
- name: Concurrent Video Generation Jobs
  scope: account
  metric: jobs
  limit: see provider documentation
  notes: Video generation is asynchronous; concurrency limits are not documented.
policies:
- name: Plan-Based Quotas
  description: Entitlements (minutes, seats, avatars) scale with subscription tier; API requires Business/Enterprise.
- 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