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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: Ola
providerId: ola
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
reconciled: false
tags:
  - Ride-Sharing
  - Maps
  - Transportation
  - Rate Limiting
  - India
description: >-
  Ola enforces rate limiting across both its Ride APIs and Ola Maps platform. The Ola Corporate
  API publishes a rate limit of 1,000 requests per minute across all endpoints. The Ola Maps
  platform enforces monthly and per-minute rate limits returning HTTP 429 when exceeded, with
  free tier thresholds of 500K–5M calls per month. Consumer Ride API rate limits are not publicly
  documented and are governed by affiliate partner agreements.
notes: >-
  Ola Corporate rate limits (1,000 RPM) are documented at corporate.olacabs.com. Ola Maps
  per-minute limits are enforced but specific numbers are not published; the free monthly cap is
  500K (standard) to 5M (promotional). Consumer Ride API rate limits require a partner agreement
  to access.
sources:
  - https://corporate.olacabs.com/docs/access-token
  - https://maps.olakrutrim.com/docs
  - https://developers.olacabs.com/docs/rate-limit
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
  - name: Ola Corporate API Rate Limit
    scope: account
    metric: requests_per_minute
    limit: 1000
    timeFrame: minute
    notes: >-
      Applies across all Corporate API endpoints: user management, ride viewing, invoice
      download, and expense code operations. Exceeding this limit returns HTTP 429 with the
      message "Allowed rate limit breached".
  - name: Ola Maps Monthly Free Tier Limit
    scope: account
    metric: api_calls_per_month
    limit: 500000
    timeFrame: month
    notes: >-
      Standard free tier is 500K API calls per month across all Ola Maps APIs. Promotional
      tier (as of February 2025) extends this to 5M calls per month for new and existing
      accounts. Exceeding the monthly cap returns HTTP 429.
  - name: Ola Maps Promotional Monthly Free Tier
    scope: account
    metric: api_calls_per_month
    limit: 5000000
    timeFrame: month
    notes: >-
      Promotional expansion announced February 2025 covering 90%+ of Indian developers and
      startups. Contact support@olakrutrim.com to upgrade from the standard 500K cap.
  - name: Ola Maps Per-Minute Rate Limit
    scope: account
    metric: requests_per_minute
    limit: -1
    timeFrame: minute
    notes: >-
      Ola Maps enforces per-minute rate limits in addition to the monthly cap; exact per-minute
      thresholds are not publicly documented. HTTP 429 is returned when exceeded with guidance
      to contact support@olakrutrim.com for a free upgrade.
  - name: Ola Ride API (Consumer/Affiliate) Rate Limit
    scope: account
    metric: requests
    limit: -1
    timeFrame: varies
    notes: >-
      Rate limits for the Consumer Ride APIs are not publicly disclosed. Quotas are governed
      by the affiliate partner agreement received after certification by Ola.
policies:
  - name: Hard Monthly Cap (Ola Maps)
    description: >-
      Ola Maps enforces a hard monthly API call cap per account. Requests above the free threshold
      are either billed (on paid plans) or rejected with HTTP 429 until the next billing cycle or
      a plan upgrade is applied.
  - name: Per-Minute Throttle (Ola Corporate)
    description: >-
      The Ola Corporate API returns HTTP 429 with "Allowed rate limit breached" when more than
      1,000 requests are issued in any 60-second window. Clients should implement request queuing
      or exponential backoff to stay within this limit.
  - name: Invite-Only Access Gating (Ride APIs)
    description: >-
      Consumer Ride APIs are only accessible after affiliate certification; unapproved clients
      cannot reach production endpoints regardless of rate limits.
  - name: Exponential Backoff
    description: >-
      Clients hitting 429 responses on any Ola API should apply exponential backoff with jitter
      before retrying. Contact support@olakrutrim.com (Maps) or corp_apisupport@olacabs.com
      (Corporate) for quota increases.
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com