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: Golem
providerId: golem-cloud
created: '2026-06-20'
modified: '2026-06-20'
reconciled: false
tags:
- Durable Computing
- Serverless
- WebAssembly
- Workers
- Agents
- Rate Limiting
- Quotas
- Throttling
description: >-
  Golem does not publish fixed numeric API rate limits. When self-hosted, the
  open-source runtime imposes no provider-side rate limits - throughput is
  bounded only by the infrastructure you run it on and any limits you configure.
  The managed Golem Cloud hosted service is in Developer Preview and may apply
  account-level quotas on components, concurrently active workers, and
  invocation throughput; specific values are not publicly documented and are
  not reconciled in this artifact.
notes: >-
  Verify any hosted Developer Preview quotas in the Golem Cloud console or with
  Golem on reconciliation. Self-hosted deployments are limited by operator
  infrastructure, not by Golem-imposed API rate limits.
sources:
- https://learn.golem.cloud
- https://www.golem.cloud/pricing
- https://github.com/golemcloud/golem
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
- name: Requests Per Minute (Hosted)
  scope: account
  metric: requests
  limit: see provider documentation
  notes: Hosted Developer Preview may apply per-account request throttling; values not published.
- name: Concurrently Active Workers
  scope: account
  metric: workers
  limit: see provider documentation
  notes: Hosted service may cap concurrently active durable workers/agents; self-hosted is unbounded by Golem.
- name: Component Count / Size
  scope: environment
  metric: components
  limit: see provider documentation
  notes: Hosted service may cap component count or upload size per environment.
- name: Self-Hosted
  scope: deployment
  metric: requests
  limit: infrastructure-bound
  notes: Open-source self-hosted Golem imposes no provider rate limits; bounded by operator infrastructure.
policies:
- name: Self-Hosted Control
  description: Operators of self-hosted Golem set their own gateway and infrastructure limits; Golem imposes none.
- name: Backoff Strategy
  description: Clients should implement exponential backoff with jitter and honor Retry-After on 429 responses from the hosted service.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com