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: Electronic Arts
providerId: electronic-arts
created: '2026-05-04'
modified: '2026-09-06'
method: searched
source: https://help.ea.com/en/articles/ea-sports-fc/community-api/
reconciled: true
limit_count: 0
tags:
  - Rate Limiting
  - Gaming
  - Entertainment
description: >-
  Electronic Arts publishes NO rate limits, for any surface. An honest zero: EA's two public
  API-adjacent surfaces — the EA Account OAuth/OIDC endpoints on accounts.ea.com and the
  approved-partner FC Community API — carry no documented quota, window, burst allowance or
  throttling header anywhere on ea.com or help.ea.com. The one limit EA does state for the FC
  Community API is a data-retention cap, not a request rate: partners may keep pulled account
  data for at most 28 days.
notes: >-
  No X-RateLimit-*, RateLimit-* or Retry-After header contract is documented, and no status
  code on exhaustion is stated. Community projects that call EA online-services endpoints do so
  against undocumented, unsupported surfaces; nothing in that space is a published EA limit and
  none of it is recorded here.
sources:
  - url: https://help.ea.com/en/articles/ea-sports-fc/community-api/
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.ea.com/games/ea-sports-fc/fc-26/news/pitch-notes-fc26-community-api-update
    status: 200
  - url: https://accounts.ea.com/.well-known/openid-configuration
    status: 200
limits: []
policies:
  - name: Data retention cap (not a rate limit)
    description: >-
      Approved FC Community API partners may retain pulled account-specific data for up to 28
      days; a new pull inside the window resets the 28 days. Recorded here because it is the
      only quantitative constraint EA publishes on the programme.
    source: https://www.ea.com/games/ea-sports-fc/fc-26/news/pitch-notes-fc26-community-api-update
  - name: Approved partners only
    description: >-
      Only FUT.GG, FUTBIN and FUTWIZ are authorized to call the FC Community API, and EA is not
      accepting further requests. There is no general-population traffic to limit.
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com