name: GlitchTip Rate Limits
description: Rate limiting and quota policies for the GlitchTip hosted API and event intake.
url: https://glitchtip.com/pricing
limits:

  - name: Monthly Event Quota
    description: Each plan has a monthly event cap covering errors, performance transactions, and uptime events.
    scope: account
    policies:
      - plan: Free
        limit: 1000
        period: monthly
        unit: events
      - plan: Small
        limit: 100000
        period: monthly
        unit: events
      - plan: Medium
        limit: 500000
        period: monthly
        unit: events
      - plan: Large
        limit: 3000000
        period: monthly
        unit: events

  - name: Quota Throttling Policy
    description: When the monthly event quota is exceeded, GlitchTip applies gradual throttling before full blocking.
    scope: account
    policies:
      - threshold: 100% of quota
        action: throttle by 10%
      - threshold: 200% of quota
        action: block all events

  - name: Data Retention
    description: Event data is automatically purged after 90 days on all hosted plans.
    scope: account
    policies:
      - period: 90 days
        action: auto-purge

  - name: API Authentication
    description: REST API access is controlled by scoped auth tokens issued per user.
    scope: user
    policies:
      - token_scopes:
          - event:read
          - project:read
          - project:write
          - org:read
          - org:write

notes:
  - No documented per-minute or per-second API rate limits are published for the REST API.
  - GlitchTip is Sentry API compatible; Sentry SDK rate limit headers (X-Sentry-Rate-Limits) apply to event intake.
  - Self-hosted deployments do not have enforced event quotas by default.