specification: API Commons Rate Limits
specificationVersion: '0.1'
provider: Planhat
providerId: planhat
generated: '2026-07-20'
method: searched
created: '2026-07-20'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Rate Limiting
- Customer Success
description: >-
  Planhat main REST API rate limits — a soft limit of 200 calls/minute, a hard
  limit of 150 requests/second (bursts of up to 50 parallel requests), a 5,000
  item cap per bulk request, and a 32 MB request-body ceiling.
sources:
- https://www.planhat.com/developers/api/authentication-limits
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
- name: Soft limit
  scope: token
  metric: requests_per_minute
  limit: 200
  timeFrame: minute
- name: Hard limit
  scope: token
  metric: requests_per_second
  limit: 150
  timeFrame: second
- name: Parallel request burst
  scope: token
  metric: parallel_requests
  limit: 50
  timeFrame: instant
- name: Bulk items per request
  scope: request
  metric: items
  limit: 5000
  timeFrame: request
- name: Request body size
  scope: request
  metric: bytes
  limit: 33554432
  timeFrame: request