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: REVIEWS.io
providerId: reviews-io
created: '2026-06-25'
modified: '2026-06-25'
reconciled: false
tags:
- Reviews
- UGC
- Ratings
- Reputation
- eCommerce
- Rate Limiting
- Quotas
- Throttling
description: >-
  The REVIEWS.io API is authenticated per store with a public store key and a
  private API key. Published developer documentation does not state explicit
  numeric request-per-minute or request-per-day rate limits; throttling and
  abuse protections are applied at the platform level. Plan-level review
  invitation allowances (per month, by subscription tier) act as the primary
  usage quota. Specific per-endpoint rate-limit values are not reconciled in
  this artifact.
notes: >-
  Confirm any documented numeric rate limits and 429 throttling behavior with
  REVIEWS.io support at reconciliation. Invitation volume caps are governed by
  the subscribed plan rather than per-second API throttling.
sources:
- https://developer.reviews.io/reference
- https://support.reviews.io/en/articles/9185068-reviews-io-api
- https://www.reviews.io/front/pricingplans
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
- name: Requests Per Minute (RPM)
  scope: store
  metric: requests
  limit: see provider documentation
  notes: No explicit numeric RPM published; platform-level throttling may apply.
- name: Requests Per Day (RPD)
  scope: store
  metric: requests
  limit: see provider documentation
  notes: No explicit numeric RPD published; platform-level throttling may apply.
- name: Monthly Review Invitations
  scope: store
  metric: invitations
  limit: varies by plan (300 / 1,500 / 5,000 / 10,000 / unlimited)
  notes: Invitation allowance is set by the subscribed plan tier.
- name: SMS Invitations
  scope: store
  metric: invitations
  limit: plan-dependent add-on
  notes: SMS invitation volume is a plan add-on, adjustable after signup.
policies:
- name: Plan-Based Quotas
  description: Monthly invitation volume is capped by the subscribed plan; Enterprise offers unlimited invitations.
- name: Backoff Strategy
  description: Clients should implement retries with exponential backoff and honor any Retry-After header on 429 responses.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com