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: Flowise
providerId: flowise
created: '2026-05-24'
modified: '2026-05-24'
tags:
  - Agents
  - Agent Workflows
  - Artificial Intelligence
  - Large Language Models
  - Rate Limiting
  - Quotas
  - Throttling
description: |
  Rate limit definitions for Flowise. Self-hosted Flowise has no built-in
  request-rate limits beyond what the operator configures (the enterprise
  build adds per-route rate limiting and restricted domains). Flowise Cloud
  enforces monthly prediction quotas per plan. Scaffold values reflect the
  publicly-documented per-tier prediction caps; per-minute caps are listed
  as scaffold defaults and should be reconciled with the operator's deployed
  configuration.
headers:
  limit: X-RateLimit-Limit
  remaining: X-RateLimit-Remaining
  reset: X-RateLimit-Reset
  retryAfter: Retry-After
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
  quotaExceeded: 429
  serviceUnavailable: 503
limits:
  - tier: free
    name: Free Tier Predictions
    scope: workspace
    metric: predictions_per_month
    limit: 100
    timeFrame: month
    applies:
      - Flowise API
  - tier: starter
    name: Starter Tier Predictions
    scope: workspace
    metric: predictions_per_month
    limit: 10000
    timeFrame: month
    applies:
      - Flowise API
  - tier: pro
    name: Pro Tier Predictions
    scope: workspace
    metric: predictions_per_month
    limit: 50000
    timeFrame: month
    applies:
      - Flowise API
  - tier: enterprise
    name: Enterprise Negotiated Predictions
    scope: contract
    metric: predictions_per_month
    limit: -1
    timeFrame: month
    applies:
      - Flowise API
  - tier: self-hosted
    name: Self-Hosted Default
    scope: instance
    metric: requests_per_minute
    limit: -1
    timeFrame: minute
    applies:
      - Flowise API
    notes: |
      Self-hosted Flowise does not enforce request-rate limits by default.
      The Enterprise build supports configurable per-route rate limiting.
policies:
  - name: Backoff Strategy
    description: Clients should implement exponential backoff with jitter and
      respect Retry-After headers when returned.
  - name: Quota Reset
    description: Cloud prediction quotas reset at the start of the workspace's
      billing cycle.
  - name: Enterprise Rate Limiting
    description: Operators of the Flowise Enterprise build can configure
      per-route rate limiting and restricted domains, exposed in the admin
      configuration.
  - name: Horizontal Scaling
    description: For high-throughput deployments, Flowise supports horizontal
      scaling via BullMQ workers and a message-queue backplane.
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com