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: Prodigi
providerId: prodigi
created: '2026-06-25'
modified: '2026-06-25'
reconciled: false
tags:
- Print on Demand
- Printing
- Dropshipping
- Fulfillment
- E-commerce
- Rate Limiting
- Quotas
- Throttling
description: >-
  The Prodigi Print API is authenticated per-account via an X-API-Key header.
  Prodigi applies request throttling to protect platform stability, and
  recommends idempotency keys on order creation so throttled or retried
  requests do not create duplicate orders. Specific published per-endpoint
  request-per-minute limits are not reconciled in this artifact.
notes: >-
  Verify any documented request limits and throttling behaviour in the Prodigi
  Print API reference on reconciliation. Use the optional idempotencyKey on
  order creation to make retries safe.
sources:
- https://www.prodigi.com/print-api/docs/reference/
- https://www.prodigi.com/print-api/docs/
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
- name: Requests Per Minute
  scope: account
  metric: requests
  limit: see provider documentation
  notes: Per-API-key request throttling; specific value not reconciled.
- name: Order Creation
  scope: account
  metric: orders
  limit: see provider documentation
  notes: Use idempotencyKey to safely retry without duplicate orders.
policies:
- name: Idempotency
  description: Supply an idempotencyKey on order creation so retried requests return the original order rather than creating a duplicate.
- name: Backoff Strategy
  description: Clients should implement exponential backoff with jitter on 429 responses and honor Retry-After when present.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com