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: edX
providerId: edx
created: '2026-05-08'
# Provenance stamped 2026-08-11: this artifact was written by the API Evangelist
# bulk sweep dated 2026-05-08, not harvested from the provider. See roadmap#35.
method: generated
modified: '2026-05-08'
reconciled: false
tags:
- EdTech
- Online Learning
- Open Source
- MOOC
- Rate Limiting
- Quotas
- Throttling
description: Open edX rate limits are configurable per deployment; public edx.org API limits are not openly
  documented.
notes: Partner agreements typically include negotiated quotas.
sources:
- https://docs.openedx.org/
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
- name: Default Open edX
  scope: deployment
  metric: requests
  limit: configurable per deployment
  notes: Operators set limits via Django/middleware config.
policies:
- name: Backoff Strategy
  description: Clients should implement exponential backoff with jitter and honor any Retry-After header.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com