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: Glide
providerId: glide-apps
created: '2026-06-20'
modified: '2026-06-20'
reconciled: false
tags:
- No Code
- App Builder
- Tables
- Big Tables
- Rate Limiting
- Quotas
- Throttling
description: >-
  The Glide REST API constrains usage through response-size limits and
  plan-based consumption rather than published per-second request quotas. The
  Get Rows endpoint returns at most 10,000 rows per response and uses a
  continuation token for further pages. Data changes made through the API count
  as Updates against the workspace plan's monthly Updates allowance, so the
  effective throughput ceiling is governed by the plan tier (REST get-rows and
  SQL querying require Business or Enterprise). Specific per-minute request
  thresholds are not publicly documented.
notes: >-
  Confirm any per-request or per-minute throttling thresholds and the current
  page-size cap in the Glide API reference at reconciliation; the dominant
  practical limit is the plan's included Updates and the 10K-rows-per-response
  pagination cap.
sources:
- https://www.glideapps.com/docs/using-glide-tables-api
- https://apidocs.glideapps.com/api-reference/v2
- https://www.glideapps.com/pricing
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
- name: Rows Per Response
  scope: request
  metric: rows
  limit: 10000
  notes: Maximum rows returned by Get Rows in a single response; use the continuation token for more.
- name: Monthly Updates Allowance
  scope: account
  metric: updates
  limit: plan-dependent
  notes: API-driven data changes consume the plan's included Updates (250 / 500 / 5,000 / custom); overage billed at $0.02 per Update.
- name: API Access Tier
  scope: account
  metric: capability
  limit: Business and Enterprise only
  notes: Get Rows and SQL querying of Big Tables require a Business or Enterprise plan.
- name: Per-Minute Request Rate
  scope: account
  metric: requests
  limit: see provider documentation
  notes: No public per-minute request quota is documented; clients should backoff on 429.
policies:
- name: Pagination
  description: Get Rows returns a continuation token when results exceed 10,000 rows; resubmit with the token to page through.
- name: Backoff Strategy
  description: On HTTP 429 clients should implement exponential backoff with jitter and retry.
- name: Plan-Gated Throughput
  description: Effective sustained throughput is bounded by the workspace plan's monthly Updates allowance.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com