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: Dacast
providerId: dacast
created: '2026-07-11'
modified: '2026-07-11'
reconciled: false
tags:
- Live Streaming
- Video
- VOD
- OTT
- Rate Limiting
- Quotas
- Throttling
description: >-
  Dacast does not publish explicit numeric API rate limits in its public
  developer documentation. Access is gated by plan (Scale and Custom), and the
  practical ceilings on a Dacast account are the plan's bandwidth and storage
  allotments plus overage pricing rather than a documented requests-per-minute
  quota on the REST API. Values below are placeholders pending reconciliation
  against the developer portal or a live account.
notes: >-
  No requests-per-minute / per-day figures are published on docs.dacast.com as of
  the review date. Treat the API as subject to standard fair-use throttling and
  implement backoff. Reconcile with the developer portal or Dacast support if
  hard limits are needed.
sources:
- https://docs.dacast.com/docs/make-your-first-api-call
- https://docs.dacast.com/docs/obtain-api-keys
- https://www.dacast.com/live-streaming-pricing-plans/
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
- name: Requests Per Minute (RPM)
  scope: account
  metric: requests
  limit: not published
  notes: No documented per-account RPM ceiling; assume fair-use throttling.
- name: Bandwidth Allotment
  scope: account
  metric: bandwidth
  limit: per plan (2.4 TB / 6 TB / 24 TB per year)
  notes: Practical delivery ceiling; overages billed per GB.
- name: Storage Allotment
  scope: account
  metric: storage
  limit: per plan (500 GB / 250 GB / 2,000 GB)
  notes: Practical storage ceiling; overages billed per GB per month.
policies:
- name: Plan Gating
  description: API access is restricted to Scale and Custom plans; trial accounts must request temporary access from sales.
- name: Backoff Strategy
  description: Clients should implement exponential backoff with jitter and honor 429 responses / Retry-After if returned.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com