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: Documenso
providerId: documenso
created: '2026-06-20'
modified: '2026-06-20'
reconciled: false
tags:
- E-Signature
- Documents
- Signing
- Open Source
- DocuSign Alternative
- Rate Limiting
- Quotas
- Throttling
description: >-
  The Documenso public API enforces per-token rate limits on requests. Limits
  apply per API token and vary by plan; the Free tier additionally caps usage
  at 5 documents per month with up to 10 recipients per document. Self-hosted
  deployments can configure their own limits. Specific per-endpoint request
  ceilings are not reconciled in this artifact.
notes: >-
  Verify current per-token request limits in the Documenso API documentation
  (Rate Limits section) on reconciliation. Self-hosted instances may set
  different limits via configuration.
sources:
- https://docs.documenso.com/developers/public-api
- https://documenso.com/pricing
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
- name: API Requests Per Token
  scope: token
  metric: requests
  limit: see provider documentation
  notes: Per-API-token request rate limit; varies by plan.
- name: Documents Per Month (Free tier)
  scope: account
  metric: documents
  limit: 5
  notes: Free cloud tier monthly document cap; unlimited on paid tiers and self-hosted.
- name: Recipients Per Document (Free tier)
  scope: document
  metric: recipients
  limit: 10
  notes: Free cloud tier per-document recipient cap.
- name: Self-Hosted Limits
  scope: account
  metric: requests
  limit: operator-configured
  notes: Self-hosted deployments define their own rate limits; no vendor-imposed ceiling.
policies:
- name: Tiered Limits
  description: Quotas and API access expand from Free to Individual, Teams, and Platform plans; self-hosting removes vendor caps.
- name: Backoff Strategy
  description: Clients should implement exponential backoff with jitter and honor Retry-After on HTTP 429 responses.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com