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: Nitric
providerId: nitric
created: '2026-06-20'
modified: '2026-06-20'
reconciled: false
tags:
- Infrastructure from Code
- Cloud Framework
- SDK
- CLI
- Rate Limiting
- Quotas
description: >-
  Nitric is a framework / IaC SDK and CLI, not a hosted API, so Nitric itself
  imposes no API rate limits or quotas. Any throttling experienced by an
  application built with Nitric comes from the underlying cloud services that
  the chosen provider plugin provisions - for example AWS API Gateway request
  quotas, SQS throughput limits, DynamoDB capacity, or cloud-account service
  quotas on AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure. Specific limits depend entirely on the
  target cloud and the resources declared, and are not reconciled in this
  artifact.
notes: >-
  No Nitric-level rate limits exist. On reconciliation, document the relevant
  per-service quotas of the target cloud provider (e.g. AWS API Gateway, SQS,
  SNS, S3, DynamoDB) used by the deployed resources.
sources:
- https://nitric.io/docs
- https://github.com/nitrictech/nitric
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
- name: Framework Rate Limits
  scope: framework
  metric: requests
  limit: not applicable
  notes: Nitric is an SDK/CLI; it does not meter or throttle API calls itself.
- name: Cloud Provider Service Quotas
  scope: account
  metric: requests
  limit: see target cloud documentation
  notes: >-
    Throttling derives from the provisioned cloud services (e.g. AWS API
    Gateway, SQS, SNS, DynamoDB) and the cloud account's service quotas.
policies:
- name: Cloud-Native Quotas
  description: >-
    Effective limits are defined by the target cloud provider's service quotas
    for the resources Nitric provisions, not by Nitric.
- name: Backoff Strategy
  description: >-
    Applications should implement exponential backoff with jitter and honor
    Retry-After when calling provisioned cloud services that return 429.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com