specification: API Commons Rate Limits
specificationVersion: '0.1'
provider: Request Finance
providerId: request
generated: '2026-07-20'
method: searched
created: '2026-07-20'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Rate Limiting
- Payments
description: >-
  Request Finance enforces global hourly rate limits by authentication mode, with
  stricter per-endpoint limits on some endpoints. Rate-limit state is returned in
  X-Rate-Limit-* headers and a Retry-After on blocked requests.
sources:
- https://docs.request.finance/rate-limits
headers:
  limit: X-Rate-Limit-Limit
  remaining: X-Rate-Limit-Remaining
  reset: X-Rate-Limit-Reset
  retryAfter: Retry-After
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
- name: Unauthenticated users
  scope: global
  metric: requests_per_hour
  limit: 500
  timeFrame: hour
- name: Authenticated users (API key)
  scope: global
  metric: requests_per_hour
  limit: 5000
  timeFrame: hour
- name: Applications using OAuth
  scope: global
  metric: requests_per_hour
  limit: 15000
  timeFrame: hour
notes: >-
  Some endpoints have stricter per-endpoint limits; the per-endpoint ceiling is
  returned in X-Rate-Limit-Limit.