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: Evident
providerId: evident-id
created: '2026-06-25'
modified: '2026-06-25'
reconciled: false
tags:
- Identity Verification
- Credential Verification
- Background Check
- Insurance Verification
- COI
- Rate Limiting
- Quotas
- Throttling
description: >-
  Evident does not publish specific public rate limits for VerifyAPI or
  SubmitAPI. Access is account- and partner-provisioned with separate
  production and sandbox API keys, and usage is governed by the customer's
  plan and contract rather than by documented per-minute or per-day quotas.
  Specific limits are not reconciled in this artifact and should be confirmed
  with Evident.
notes: >-
  No numeric rate limits are documented at evidentid.com/api-documentation-developers
  or docs.evidentid.com/v1 as of the creation date. Confirm any throttling,
  concurrency, or volume limits directly with Evident during onboarding.
sources:
- https://www.evidentid.com/api-documentation-developers/
- https://docs.evidentid.com/v1
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
- name: VerifyAPI Requests
  scope: account
  metric: requests
  limit: see provider documentation
  notes: No public per-minute or per-day quota documented; governed by plan / contract.
- name: SubmitAPI Requests
  scope: account
  metric: requests
  limit: see provider documentation
  notes: No public quota documented; authenticated per request with userIdentityToken.
- name: Verifications
  scope: account
  metric: verifications
  limit: see plan / contract
  notes: Volume governed by the customer's Pay As You Go, Essential, Pro, or Enterprise plan.
policies:
- name: Separate Environment Keys
  description: Distinct API keys are issued for production and sandbox; do not share keys across environments.
- name: Server-Side Use
  description: API keys are secrets and must only be used from your server when calling VerifyAPI.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com