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: Jotform
providerId: jotform
created: '2026-05-08'
# Provenance stamped 2026-08-11: this artifact was written by the API Evangelist
# bulk sweep dated 2026-05-08, not harvested from the provider. See roadmap#35.
method: generated
modified: '2026-05-08'
reconciled: true
tags:
- Forms
- Surveys
- No-Code
- Data Collection
- Workflow
- Rate Limiting
- Quotas
- Throttling
description: >-
  Jotform applies a daily API-call ceiling tied to the subscription tier
  (1K Starter, 10K Bronze, 50K Silver, 100K Gold, unlimited Enterprise).
  Submissions, active forms and storage are also tier-bounded.
notes: >-
  Reaching the daily ceiling returns 429-equivalent throttle responses.
  Numeric per-second limits are not separately published; the daily ceiling
  is the dominant constraint.
sources:
- https://api.jotform.com/docs/#rate-limits
- https://www.jotform.com/pricing/
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
- name: Daily API calls — Starter
  scope: account
  metric: requests
  limit: 1000
  timeFrame: 1d
- name: Daily API calls — Bronze
  scope: account
  metric: requests
  limit: 10000
  timeFrame: 1d
- name: Daily API calls — Silver
  scope: account
  metric: requests
  limit: 50000
  timeFrame: 1d
- name: Daily API calls — Gold
  scope: account
  metric: requests
  limit: 100000
  timeFrame: 1d
- name: Daily API calls — Enterprise
  scope: account
  metric: requests
  limit: -1
  timeFrame: 1d
  notes: Unlimited.
- name: Submissions per month — Starter
  scope: account
  metric: submissions/month
  limit: 100
- name: Submissions per month — Bronze
  scope: account
  metric: submissions/month
  limit: 1000
- name: Submissions per month — Silver
  scope: account
  metric: submissions/month
  limit: 2500
- name: Submissions per month — Gold
  scope: account
  metric: submissions/month
  limit: 10000
policies:
- name: Backoff Strategy
  description: Pace API calls; cache reads; use webhooks for submissions instead of polling /submissions.
- name: Region selection
  description: Use the EU or HIPAA endpoint for the matching plan/data-residency tier.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com