specification: API Commons Rate Limits
specificationVersion: '0.1'
provider: Rye
providerId: rye
generated: '2026-07-21'
method: searched
reconciled: true
tags:
  - Rate Limiting
  - Commerce
description: >-
  Rye Universal Checkout API rate limits, enforced per account (all of an
  account's API keys share the same buckets). Responses carry IETF draft-8
  RateLimit headers (RateLimit-Policy, RateLimit); throttled requests return 429.
sources:
  - https://rye.com/docs/api-v2/rate-limits
headers:
  policy: RateLimit-Policy
  remaining: RateLimit
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
  - name: Mutations
    scope: account
    metric: requests_per_second
    limit: 5
    timeFrame: second
    covers: State-changing endpoints (create/confirm/purchase checkout intents, payment gateway sessions).
  - name: Reads
    scope: account
    metric: requests_per_second
    limit: 10
    timeFrame: second
    covers: General GET endpoints (events, shipments, brands, merchants, settings).
  - name: Product lookup
    scope: account
    metric: requests_per_second
    limit: 10
    timeFrame: second
    covers: The product lookup endpoint (separate bucket).
  - name: Checkout intents
    scope: account
    metric: checkout_intents
    limit: 50
    timeFrame: day
    covers: Total checkout intents created per day (create + purchase).
  - name: Concurrent agents
    scope: account
    metric: in_flight_orders
    limit: 10
    timeFrame: concurrent
    covers: In-progress checkout intents whose orders are being placed by Rye's agent.