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: Evisort
providerId: evisort
created: '2026-06-21'
modified: '2026-06-21'
reconciled: false
tags:
- Contract Lifecycle Management
- CLM
- Contract Intelligence
- Document AI
- Legal Tech
- Rate Limiting
- Quotas
- Throttling
description: >-
  Evisort's REST API enforces authentication via a short-lived JWT bearer token
  obtained from an Evisort API key, which implies token-expiry and re-auth
  behavior. Specific published request-per-minute / request-per-day rate-limit
  numbers are not available in Evisort's public materials; the detailed API
  reference is behind an authenticated developer portal. No rate-limit values
  below are reconciled.
notes: >-
  Confirm concrete throttling thresholds, response headers, and the JWT token
  lifetime against Evisort's authenticated developer documentation during
  reconciliation. Clients should treat the JWT as short-lived and re-request a
  token from POST /auth/token when it expires.
sources:
- https://developers.evisort.com/
- https://documents.developers.evisort.com/
- https://medium.com/@christopher.j.knowles/a-quick-introduction-to-the-evisort-documents-api-in-python-730e173105fa
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
  unauthorized: 401
limits:
- name: Request Rate
  scope: account
  metric: requests
  limit: see provider documentation
  notes: Concrete RPM/RPD thresholds are not publicly documented.
- name: JWT Token Lifetime
  scope: account
  metric: token_ttl
  limit: see provider documentation
  notes: Tokens issued by POST /auth/token are short-lived; re-authenticate on expiry.
policies:
- name: Token-Based Authentication
  description: An Evisort API key is exchanged for a short-lived JWT bearer token used on each request.
- name: Backoff Strategy
  description: Clients should implement retry with exponential backoff and honor 429 responses.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com