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: Particle Space
providerId: particle-space
created: '2026-06-21'
modified: '2026-06-21'
reconciled: false
tags:
- Real Estate
- Property Data
- PropTech
- Listings
- Valuations
- Rate Limiting
- Quotas
- Throttling
description: >-
  Particle Space meters usage by API requests, with the free Developer plan
  capped at a fixed monthly request quota and paid plans raising that quota.
  Per-second or per-minute throttling values and the exact 429 throttling
  behavior are not documented in the sources reviewed and are not reconciled in
  this artifact.
notes: >-
  Confirm any per-second/per-minute throttling limits, monthly request quotas
  per tier, and the throttling response code in the live API reference and
  pricing page during reconciliation.
sources:
- https://particlespace.com/pricing/
- https://docs.particlespace.com/docs/intro/
responseCodes:
  throttled: see provider documentation
limits:
- name: Monthly API Requests
  scope: account
  metric: requests
  limit: see provider pricing page
  notes: >-
    Monthly request quota per plan; the free Developer plan allows 50 requests
    per month. Paid-tier quotas to be reconciled.
- name: Request Rate
  scope: account
  metric: requests
  limit: see provider documentation
  notes: Per-second / per-minute throttling not documented in reviewed sources.
policies:
- name: Tiered Quotas
  description: Monthly request allowances increase from the free Developer plan through paid and enterprise tiers.
- name: Backoff Strategy
  description: Clients should implement exponential backoff with jitter and honor any Retry-After header.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com