---
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: EdgeDB
providerId: edgedb
created: '2026-06-12'
modified: '2026-06-12'
reconciled: true
tags:
  - Rate Limiting
  - Database
  - HTTP API
description: >-
  EdgeDB/Gel does not publish explicit rate limits for its HTTP EdgeQL or
  GraphQL APIs in its public documentation as of June 2026. The HTTP API
  enforces a single-query-per-request constraint and does not support DDL or
  transaction commands. Connection and query throughput are constrained by
  the compute unit size of the provisioned instance. Standard HTTP 429
  Too Many Requests responses apply if limits are enforced server-side.
sources:
  - https://docs.geldata.com/reference/using/http
  - https://docs.geldata.com/cloud/http_gql
headers:
  retryAfter: Retry-After
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
  - name: EdgeQL HTTP API - Queries Per Request
    scope: key
    metric: queries_per_request
    limit: 1
    timeFrame: request
  - name: EdgeQL HTTP API - Concurrent Connections
    scope: org
    metric: connections
    limit: -1
    timeFrame: usage