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: Reverb
providerId: reverb
created: '2026-05-08'
# Provenance stamped 2026-08-11: this artifact was written by the API Evangelist
# bulk sweep dated 2026-05-08, not harvested from the provider. See roadmap#35.
method: generated
modified: '2026-05-08'
reconciled: false
tags:
- Marketplace
- Music
- Instruments
- Ecommerce
- Rate Limiting
- Quotas
- Throttling
description: Reverb API rate limits are not openly published. Honor 429 responses and ETags/304 Not Modified
  to reduce traffic.
notes: 'Always send Accept: application/hal+json and never construct URLs manually.'
sources:
- https://reverb.com/page/api
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
- name: Default REST
  scope: token
  metric: requests
  limit: not publicly documented
  notes: Honor 429; use ETags / 304 Not Modified.
policies:
- 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