generated: '2026-08-16'
method: searched
source: https://docs.galatea.bio/
limit_count: 0
documented: false
note: >-
  Galatea Bio publishes no rate limits for the Octopod Ancestry API. The GalateaBio Ancestry API
  documentation has no rate-limit section; its Errors table lists 400, 401, 403, 404, 405, 406, 422,
  500 and 503 and does not include 429. No 429 response is declared on any of the 99 operations in
  the published Swagger document, and no RateLimit-*, X-RateLimit-* or Retry-After header appears in
  the spec or the docs. An honest zero.
limits: []
response_headers:
  observed: []
  documented: []
  note: >-
    Headers were inspected on a live unauthenticated request to
    https://api.galatea.bio/api/v1/users/me (HTTP 401). The response carried only Django/Cloudflare
    security headers - x-frame-options, x-content-type-options, referrer-policy,
    cross-origin-opener-policy, vary - and no rate-limit signalling of any kind.
exhaustion_status: null
retry_guidance:
  published: false
  note: >-
    The docs advise retrying later on 500 and 503, but give no backoff policy, no retry budget and
    no rate ceiling.
adjacent_quota_controls:
  note: >-
    Throughput is governed commercially rather than by request rate. Two real constraints are
    published and are the closest thing to a documented limit.
  constraints:
  - kind: request-body size
    value: 50 MB
    scope: POST /data/files/upload
    source: https://docs.galatea.bio/#recipe-upload-file-get-status
    note: Files above this must be delivered over SFTP; the docs call SFTP the preferred path.
  - kind: consumption quota
    value: per-organization credit balance
    scope: order submission
    source: openapi/galatea-bio-octopod-openapi.yml
    note: >-
      Orders draw down a credit balance (see plans/galatea-bio-plans-pricing.yml). Exhausting
      credits, not exceeding a request rate, is the practical limit on this API.
  - kind: pagination ceiling
    value: page_size query parameter, client default 10
    scope: all collection endpoints
    note: No maximum page_size is documented.
  - kind: webhook retries
    value: max_retries_count, configured per subscription
    scope: outbound webhook delivery
    source: https://docs.galatea.bio/#recipe-handling-webhooks-deliveries
evidence:
- {url: 'https://api.galatea.bio/api/v1/users/me', http_status: 401, note: 'no rate-limit headers present on the live response'}
- {url: 'https://api.galatea.bio/swagger/?format=openapi', http_status: 200, note: 'no 429 response declared on any of 99 operations'}
- {url: 'https://docs.galatea.bio/#errors-contents', http_status: 200, note: 'error reference lists no 429 and no rate-limit section'}
checked: '2026-08-16'