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: PlanetScale
providerId: planetscale
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: PlanetScale API rate limits per organization.
sources:
  - https://planetscale.com/pricing
  - https://planetscale.com/docs/concepts/rate-limits
headers:
  retryAfter: Retry-After
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
  - name: Management API
    scope: org
    metric: requests_per_minute
    limit: 240
    timeFrame: minute
  - name: Cluster connections
    scope: cluster
    metric: concurrent_connections
    limit: scales with size
  - name: Branch operations
    scope: database
    metric: concurrent
    limit: 10