name: Couchbase API Rate Limits
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: Couchbase
providerId: couchbase
created: '2026-05-04'
# Provenance stamped 2026-08-11: this artifact was written by the API Evangelist
# bulk sweep dated 2026-05-04, not harvested from the provider. See roadmap#35.
method: generated
modified: '2026-05-04'
reconciled: true
tags:
  - Rate Limiting
  - Database
description: Couchbase Capella Management API rate limits.
sources:
  - https://www.couchbase.com/pricing/
  - https://docs.couchbase.com/cloud/management-api-reference/intro.html
headers:
  retryAfter: Retry-After
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
  - name: Management API
    scope: organization
    metric: requests_per_minute
    limit: 600
    timeFrame: minute
  - name: Cluster throughput
    scope: cluster
    metric: requests_per_second
    limit: scales with node count
  - name: App Services concurrent users
    scope: service
    metric: concurrent
    limit: varies by tier