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: Google Data Studio
providerId: google-data-studio
created: '2026-05-04'
# Provenance stamped 2026-08-11: this artifact was written by the API Evangelist
# bulk sweep dated 2026-05-04, not harvested from the provider. See roadmap#35.
method: generated
modified: '2026-05-05'
reconciled: true
tags:
  - Business Intelligence
  - Reporting
  - Dashboards
  - Google Cloud
  - Rate Limiting
description: Looker Studio (Data Studio) UI rate limits are enforced server-side and not numerically published;
  query throughput is principally bounded by the underlying data source. Looker Studio APIs and Looker
  (the platform) ship with monthly Query API and Admin API call allocations that vary by edition. Per-edition
  allocations are listed below.
sources:
  - https://cloud.google.com/looker/pricing
  - https://developers.google.com/looker-studio/integrate
  - https://cloud.google.com/looker/docs/admin-panel-database-connection-pooling
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
  quotaExceeded: 403
limits:
  - name: Looker Query API - Standard edition
    scope: instance
    metric: requests_per_month
    limit: 1000
    timeFrame: month
  - name: Looker Admin API - Standard edition
    scope: instance
    metric: requests_per_month
    limit: 1000
    timeFrame: month
  - name: Looker Query API - Enterprise edition
    scope: instance
    metric: requests_per_month
    limit: 100000
    timeFrame: month
  - name: Looker Admin API - Enterprise edition
    scope: instance
    metric: requests_per_month
    limit: 10000
    timeFrame: month
  - name: Looker Query API - Embed edition
    scope: instance
    metric: requests_per_month
    limit: 500000
    timeFrame: month
  - name: Looker Admin API - Embed edition
    scope: instance
    metric: requests_per_month
    limit: 100000
    timeFrame: month
  - name: Conversational Analytics input tokens (Viewer)
    scope: user
    metric: tokens_per_month
    limit: 1000000
    timeFrame: month
    notes: Token allocation per Viewer user per month; charged $3/M input tokens above (post-Oct 2026).
  - name: Conversational Analytics output tokens (Viewer)
    scope: user
    metric: tokens_per_month
    limit: 20000
    timeFrame: month
    notes: Charged $20/M output tokens above (post-Oct 2026).
  - name: Conversational Analytics input tokens (Standard)
    scope: user
    metric: tokens_per_month
    limit: 2000000
    timeFrame: month
  - name: Conversational Analytics output tokens (Standard)
    scope: user
    metric: tokens_per_month
    limit: 40000
    timeFrame: month
  - name: Conversational Analytics input tokens (Developer)
    scope: user
    metric: tokens_per_month
    limit: 4000000
    timeFrame: month
  - name: Conversational Analytics output tokens (Developer)
    scope: user
    metric: tokens_per_month
    limit: 80000
    timeFrame: month
  - name: Looker Studio UI rate
    scope: user
    metric: requests_per_minute
    limit: see Looker Studio internal limits
    notes: Looker Studio enforces internal request smoothing; effective throughput is bounded by the connected
      data source's quota.
policies:
  - name: Data-source bounded
    description: Looker Studio dashboards make queries against the underlying data source (BigQuery, Sheets,
      MySQL, etc.); the data source's own quotas are usually the binding constraint, not Looker Studio
      itself.
  - name: API monthly buckets
    description: Looker Query / Admin API call counts reset monthly per edition. Add-on call packs may
      be available via sales for higher volumes.
  - name: Token meter for Conversational Analytics
    description: Free until 2026-09-30; afterwards billed at $3/M input + $20/M output beyond per-user
      monthly allocations.
  - name: Backoff
    description: On 429 / 403 quotaExceeded, retry with exponential backoff; cache dashboard data via
      Looker's data action / extract scheduling features rather than re-querying live.
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com