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: CometChat
providerId: cometchat
created: '2026-06-20'
modified: '2026-06-20'
reconciled: false
tags:
- Chat
- Messaging
- Voice
- Video
- SDK
- Realtime
- Rate Limiting
- Quotas
- Throttling
description: >-
  CometChat enforces account-level limits scoped to a single app and region.
  The primary commercial limits are Monthly Active Users (MAU) and concurrent
  WebSocket connections, both set by the subscription tier; exceeding them
  triggers overage billing rather than hard rejection on paid plans. The REST
  Management API additionally applies per-app request throttling. Specific
  per-endpoint request-per-second values are not publicly enumerated and are
  not reconciled in this artifact.
notes: >-
  Confirm REST request throttling thresholds, pagination caps (perPage max),
  and concurrent-connection ceilings per tier with CometChat support or the
  dashboard during reconciliation. MAU and connection allotments are defined
  by the active plan in plans/cometchat-plans-pricing.yml.
sources:
- https://www.cometchat.com/docs/rest-api/chat-apis
- https://www.cometchat.com/pricing
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
- name: Monthly Active Users (MAU)
  scope: account
  metric: mau
  limit: per plan
  notes: Distinct users active per month; overage billed at $0.10/MAU on paid tiers.
- name: Concurrent Connections
  scope: account
  metric: connections
  limit: per plan
  notes: Included as a percentage of MAU (5% Basic/Advanced, 10% Enterprise); $1 per extra connection except Enterprise.
- name: REST API Requests
  scope: app
  metric: requests
  limit: see provider documentation
  notes: Per-app request throttling on the v3 Management API; specific RPS not publicly documented.
- name: Pagination Page Size
  scope: request
  metric: items
  limit: 100
  notes: perPage query parameter caps list responses (default 25).
policies:
- name: Tiered Limits
  description: MAU and concurrent-connection allotments scale with the subscription tier; Enterprise removes overage charges.
- name: Backoff Strategy
  description: Clients should implement exponential backoff with jitter on HTTP 429 and honor Retry-After when present.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com