generated: '2026-08-16'
method: searched
source: https://connect.gala.com/info/swagger.json (info.description, "Rate Limiting"
  section)
docs: https://connect.gala.com/info/api.html
limit_count: 1
summary: >-
  Exactly one Gala API publishes a rate limit. GalaConnect states a global limit in
  prose in its OpenAPI description. The GalaChain Gateway, the Block Explorer API and
  the Gala DeFi backend publish no limits at all, and no Gala surface emits
  X-RateLimit-* or RateLimit-* headers — the only runtime signal an agent gets is
  Retry-After on a 429.
limits:
- api: GalaConnect API
  base_url: https://api-galaswap.gala.com
  scope: global
  scope_detail: A single global limit across the API, not per key or per wallet — the
    docs say "The GalaConnect API has a global rate limit".
  limit: 20
  window: 10s
  burst: null
  exhaustion_status: 429
  headers:
  - name: Retry-After
    on: 429
    description: Whole number of seconds to wait before the next request. The docs give
      the example of a 429 carrying Retry-After 5.
  - name: X-RateLimit-Limit
    published: false
  - name: X-RateLimit-Remaining
    published: false
  - name: X-RateLimit-Reset
    published: false
  - name: RateLimit
    published: false
  stability: 'Explicitly unstable: "The rate limiting policy is subject to change, thus
    code that uses the API should be prepared for the possibility of being rate limited."'
  increase: Contact support@gala.com for a higher limit. No self-serve tier and no
    published paid ceiling.
concurrency_limits:
- api: GalaConnect API
  rule: Do not perform write operations concurrently. Concurrent transactions affecting
    the same wallet may produce serialization failures.
  exhaustion_status: 409
  note: This is a concurrency constraint rather than a request-rate limit, but it is
    the constraint most likely to break an agent that parallelises writes.
undocumented:
- api: GalaChain Token / DEX v3 / Launchpad / Fee / Public Key Contract APIs
  base_url: https://gateway-mainnet.galachain.com
  result: no published limits
- api: Gala Block Explorer API
  base_url: https://explorer-api.galachain.com
  result: no published limits
- api: Gala DeFi Backend API
  base_url: https://dex-backend-prod1.defi.gala.com
  result: no published limits
- api: Gala Launchpad backend
  base_url: https://lpad-backend-prod1.defi.gala.com
  result: no published limits; host answers 401 at root and publishes no documentation
note: >-
  Limits were not probed against live traffic. Recording an observed 429 would require
  deliberately exhausting a production limit on a chain API, which this pipeline does
  not do. method is searched, sourced from the provider's own published description.