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: Evidence
providerId: evidence-dev
created: '2026-06-20'
modified: '2026-06-20'
reconciled: false
tags:
- Business Intelligence
- BI as Code
- SQL
- Markdown
- Data Apps
- Open Source
- Rate Limiting
- Quotas
description: >-
  Evidence is a framework/CLI that compiles SQL + Markdown into a static data app and
  executes queries locally through a DuckDB-WASM (Universal SQL) engine, so the
  open-source core has no network rate limits - throughput is bound by your machine
  and by the limits of whatever upstream data warehouses you connect to. Evidence
  Cloud, as a managed product, governs usage through per-user seats, bundled monthly
  AI-credit allowances (with metered overage), and operational quotas such as
  scheduled-sync frequency and query/caching limits rather than published
  requests-per-minute API rate limits. Specific quota values are not reconciled here.
notes: >-
  No public per-second/per-minute API rate-limit table is published because Evidence
  is not a hosted REST API. Verify Evidence Cloud seat counts, AI-credit allowances,
  and sync-frequency limits at https://evidence.dev/pricing and the deployment docs
  during reconciliation.
sources:
- https://evidence.dev/pricing
- https://docs.evidence.dev/
- https://docs.evidence.dev/deployment/evidence-cloud/
responseCodes:
  throttled: not applicable (framework/CLI; no REST API surface)
limits:
- name: Open-Source Framework / CLI
  scope: local
  metric: queries
  limit: bound by local machine and upstream data source limits
  notes: No network rate limit; Universal SQL runs in-process via DuckDB-WASM.
- name: Evidence Cloud Seats
  scope: account
  metric: users
  limit: see provider pricing
  notes: Team is unlimited users; Pro and Enterprise priced per user.
- name: AI Credits
  scope: account
  metric: ai_credits
  limit: 1,000/user/month (Team), 3,000/user/month (Pro), custom (Enterprise)
  notes: Overage billed at $0.01/credit; functions as a usage quota, not a request rate.
- name: Scheduled Data Syncs
  scope: account
  metric: sync_frequency
  limit: see provider documentation
  notes: Managed sync cadence (minutes to daily) varies by plan/configuration.
policies:
- name: Self-Hosted Throughput
  description: Open-source deployments scale with host resources and upstream warehouse limits; honor your data source's own rate limits.
- name: Credit-Based Usage
  description: AI features draw down monthly credit allowances; plan for metered overage above the included pool.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com