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: Neon
providerId: neon
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: '2026-05-04'
reconciled: true
tags:
  - Rate Limiting
  - Database
description: Neon API rate limits per organization; Postgres connections per project.
sources:
  - https://neon.com/pricing
  - https://neon.com/docs/reference/api-reference
headers:
  retryAfter: Retry-After
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
  - name: Management API
    scope: org
    metric: requests_per_hour
    limit: 700
    timeFrame: hour
  - name: Postgres connections
    scope: endpoint
    metric: concurrent
    limit: scales with CU
  - name: Neon Auth
    scope: project
    metric: requests_per_second
    limit: 100
    timeFrame: second