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: Fundraise Up
providerId: fundraiseup
created: '2026-07-05'
modified: '2026-07-05'
reconciled: false
tags:
- Fundraising
- Donations
- Nonprofit
- Rate Limiting
- Quotas
description: >-
  The Fundraise Up REST API enforces fixed request-rate limits of 8 requests per
  second and 128 requests per minute. Requests that exceed either limit receive
  an HTTP 429 Too Many Requests response. List endpoints additionally bound page
  size through the limit query parameter, which accepts 1 to 100 records per page
  (default 10) and is combined with cursor pagination via starting_after and
  ending_before. A separate business rule constrains mutations rather than rate:
  donations and recurring plans can be updated only within 24 hours of creation.
notes: >-
  Numeric limits reflect the documented values at the review date and should be
  verified during reconciliation against the hosted API reference. Clients should
  implement exponential backoff with jitter on 429 responses.
sources:
- https://fundraiseup.com/docs/rest-api/
- https://api.fundraiseup.com/v1/docs/
- https://fundraiseup.com/docs/rest-api-resources/
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
- name: Requests Per Second
  scope: account
  metric: requests
  limit: 8 per second
  notes: Exceeding this returns HTTP 429 Too Many Requests.
- name: Requests Per Minute
  scope: account
  metric: requests
  limit: 128 per minute
  notes: Exceeding this returns HTTP 429 Too Many Requests.
- name: Page Size
  scope: request
  metric: records
  limit: 1 to 100 (default 10)
  notes: Controlled by the limit query parameter on list endpoints, combined with cursor pagination.
policies:
- name: Backoff Strategy
  description: Clients should implement exponential backoff with jitter and honor Retry-After on 429 responses.
- name: Cursor Pagination
  description: List endpoints paginate with starting_after and ending_before cursors plus the limit page-size parameter.
- name: 24-Hour Update Window
  description: Donations and recurring plans can be updated only within 24 hours of creation; this is a business rule, not a rate limit.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com