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: LlamaCloud
providerId: llamacloud
created: '2026-06-20'
modified: '2026-06-20'
reconciled: false
tags:
- AI
- Document Parsing
- Extraction
- Indexing
- Retrieval
- RAG
- Rate Limiting
- Quotas
- Throttling
description: >-
  LlamaCloud enforces per-account limits expressed as request concurrency
  and throughput on parsing, extraction, and retrieval, plus a monthly
  credit allowance per plan that effectively caps page/query volume.
  Concurrency and rate limits scale with the subscription tier, with
  Enterprise offering roughly 5x higher rate limits. Parsing, extraction,
  and indexing are asynchronous job-based workloads, so callers poll job
  status rather than holding long synchronous connections. Specific
  per-tier numeric limits are not reconciled in this artifact.
notes: >-
  Verify current concurrency, requests-per-minute, and per-plan credit
  allowances in the LlamaCloud console and pricing/docs pages at
  reconciliation; values change as accounts move between Free, Starter,
  Pro, and Enterprise tiers.
sources:
- https://www.llamaindex.ai/pricing
- https://developers.llamaindex.ai/python/cloud/general/pricing
- https://developers.llamaindex.ai/llamaparse/general/faq
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
- name: Parse Job Concurrency
  scope: account
  metric: concurrent_jobs
  limit: see provider documentation
  notes: Number of in-flight LlamaParse jobs; scales with subscription tier.
- name: Extraction Job Concurrency
  scope: account
  metric: concurrent_jobs
  limit: see provider documentation
  notes: Number of in-flight LlamaExtract jobs; scales with subscription tier.
- name: Requests Per Minute
  scope: account
  metric: requests
  limit: see provider documentation
  notes: Per-account request rate; Enterprise offers ~5x higher limits.
- name: Retrieval Queries
  scope: account
  metric: queries
  limit: see provider documentation
  notes: Retrieval throughput against managed indexes; metered at 1 credit per query.
- name: Monthly Credit Allowance
  scope: account
  metric: credits
  limit: 10000 (Free) / 40000 (Starter) / 400000 (Pro) / custom (Enterprise)
  notes: Plan-included monthly credits; overage billed pay-as-you-go.
policies:
- name: Tiered Limits
  description: Concurrency and rate limits raise as accounts move from Free to Starter, Pro, and Enterprise agreements.
- name: Asynchronous Jobs
  description: Parsing, extraction, and indexing run as async jobs; clients poll job status endpoints rather than blocking.
- name: Backoff Strategy
  description: Clients should implement exponential backoff with jitter on 429 responses and honor Retry-After.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com