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: IDnow
providerId: idnow
created: '2026-06-25'
modified: '2026-06-25'
reconciled: false
tags:
- Identity Verification
- KYC
- Identity Proofing
- AML
- eSign
- Rate Limiting
- Quotas
- Throttling
description: >-
  IDnow does not publish specific public rate-limit values for its gateway
  API. Usage is governed by the company's contract and configured environment
  rather than a published per-account quota. Verification throughput on the
  VideoIdent product is additionally bounded by the availability of human Ident
  Specialists. Specific per-endpoint limits are not reconciled in this artifact.
notes: >-
  Confirm any applicable request limits, concurrency, and backoff guidance with
  IDnow during onboarding and reconciliation; values are not published.
sources:
- https://docs-videoident.idnow.io/
- https://docs-autoident.idnow.io/
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
- name: Gateway Requests
  scope: company
  metric: requests
  limit: see provider documentation
  notes: No public per-account request rate is published; governed by contract.
- name: VideoIdent Throughput
  scope: company
  metric: identifications
  limit: see provider documentation
  notes: Bounded by Ident Specialist availability and contracted capacity.
policies:
- name: Contract-Governed Limits
  description: Applicable limits are defined by the company agreement and environment, not a published quota.
- name: Backoff Strategy
  description: Clients should implement exponential backoff with jitter and honor Retry-After on 429 responses.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com