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: Fleetbase
providerId: fleetbase
created: '2026-06-21'
modified: '2026-06-21'
reconciled: false
tags:
- Logistics
- Fleet Management
- Supply Chain
- Last Mile Delivery
- Open Source
- Rate Limiting
- Quotas
- Throttling
description: >-
  The Fleetbase REST API uses standard HTTP semantics and request-side
  pagination (limit / offset / page) with a default page size of 25 and a
  maximum of 100 records per list request. On Fleetbase Cloud, consumption is
  governed primarily by the monthly resource-unit allowance of the plan rather
  than published per-second request quotas; self-hosted deployments are bounded
  only by the operator's own infrastructure. Specific numeric request-rate
  limits are not publicly documented and are not reconciled in this artifact.
notes: >-
  On reconciliation, confirm whether Fleetbase Cloud publishes per-key request
  throttles and the throttled response status code; self-hosted limits are
  operator-defined.
sources:
- https://docs.fleetbase.io/api/
- https://fleetbase.io/pricing
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
- name: List Page Size
  scope: request
  metric: records
  limit: 25 default / 100 maximum
  notes: Controlled via limit / offset / page query parameters on list endpoints.
- name: Cloud Resource Units
  scope: account
  metric: units
  limit: per plan allowance
  notes: >-
    Fleetbase Cloud meters platform/API activity in resource units; exceeding
    the monthly allowance incurs $0.75-per-unit overage rather than hard throttling.
- name: Request Rate
  scope: account
  metric: requests
  limit: see provider documentation
  notes: Numeric per-second/per-minute request throttles are not publicly documented.
- name: Self-Hosted
  scope: deployment
  metric: requests
  limit: operator-defined
  notes: Self-hosted AGPL deployments are bounded only by the operator's own infrastructure and gateway configuration.
policies:
- name: Pagination
  description: List endpoints paginate via limit / offset / page; default 25, max 100 records.
- name: Backoff Strategy
  description: Clients should implement exponential backoff with jitter and honor 429 / Retry-After responses where returned.
- name: Test Mode
  description: Requests with flb_test_ keys never hit production data and incur no cost, enabling integration testing without consuming live quota.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com