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: Konfig
providerId: konfig-api
created: '2026-07-11'
modified: '2026-07-11'
reconciled: false
tags:
- SDK Generation
- Client Library
- Developer Tools
- Rate Limiting
- Quotas
description: >-
  Konfig does not expose a documented public API and therefore publishes no
  per-call rate limits. Interaction happens through the konfig-cli, which calls
  Konfig's internal, undocumented generation backend on demand (konfig generate,
  konfig test, konfig publish). Any practical throughput ceiling is a function of
  how many SDKs a subscription covers and how often the source spec changes,
  rather than a per-minute request cap. On a self-hosted deployment of the
  open-source generator, generation throughput is bounded only by your own
  infrastructure. Package-registry publishing is additionally subject to the
  limits of the target registries (npm, PyPI, Maven Central, etc.), not Konfig.
notes: >-
  No numeric rate limits are documented because there is no public Konfig API.
  Values here are modeled. Downstream publishing is constrained by third-party
  registry limits. Verify nothing is enforced by Konfig itself if reconciling.
sources:
- https://konfigthis.com/docs/
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/konfig-cli
- https://github.com/konfig-dev/konfig
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
- name: Public API Requests
  scope: account
  metric: requests
  limit: not applicable
  notes: Konfig exposes no documented public REST API, so there is no published per-call rate limit.
- name: CLI Generation Requests
  scope: account
  metric: generations
  limit: not published
  notes: konfig generate calls an internal generator backend; no public quota is documented.
- name: Self-Hosted Generation
  scope: deployment
  metric: generations
  limit: hardware-bound
  notes: Self-hosting the open-source generator is bounded only by your own infrastructure.
- name: Package Registry Publishing
  scope: registry
  metric: publishes
  limit: per registry
  notes: konfig publish is subject to the rate/quota rules of npm, PyPI, Maven Central, and other targets, not Konfig.
policies:
- name: On-Demand Generation
  description: SDKs, docs, demos, and tutorials are generated on demand from the CLI or on spec change, not via a continuously polled API.
- name: Backoff Strategy
  description: CLI callers should implement exponential backoff with jitter and honor Retry-After on any 429 responses from downstream registries.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com